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Quotes of 2009

Edgy DC Feb 15 2009 09:14 PM

Jerry Manuel on Bobby Kielty: “Every time, I used to think, Should I take him out? Leave him in? Mark Buehrle’s my best pitcher. And then here he comes, Big Kielty, Big Red, and he’d hit it out of the park. With that Minnesota team back in those days, he was an integral part in taking us down. I’ll tell you, he helped me lose my job, and now he wants me to give him a job? It don’t work like that.”

metirish Feb 15 2009 09:56 PM

Manuel in mid season form , love him for those quotes.

MFS62 Feb 16 2009 07:52 AM

Sounds like he didn't agree with the signing. Later

Benjamin Grimm Feb 16 2009 08:05 AM

Sounds more like he's kidding around.

MFS62 Feb 16 2009 08:15 AM

Sounds like I was, too. Later

Edgy DC Feb 23 2009 08:52 AM

"When you’re good, you can be in any hole." -- Carlos Beltran (Thanks, holychicken)

soupcan Feb 23 2009 09:16 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":28cx5m73]"When you’re good, you can be in any hole."[/quote:28cx5m73] That's true on so many levels.

Nymr83 Aug 13 2009 07:20 PM

"It [amphetamine use] might be dangerous, but so is drinking and driving. And how many of us do it at least once a year? Pretty much everybody." -Bronson "I'm a Fucking Idiot" Arroyo

Edgy DC Aug 13 2009 09:33 PM

Nicknames are so different these days.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 13 2009 09:41 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 13 2009 10:11 PM

[quote="Nymr83"]"It [amphetamine use] might be dangerous, but so is drinking and driving. And how many of us do it at least once a year? Pretty much everybody." -Bronson "I'm a Fucking Idiot" Arroyo

Oh, the Arroyo interview's a goldmine... and not necessarily in the way one might think. On a few matters, I think he's voicing thoughts that a lot of major-leaguers have but refuse to say in front of a recorder/camera. (On others... well, it's like the "brah" is understood, and you can practically feel him punching you in the shoulder as you're reading them.)

Either way, the candor's a bit surprising.

"I take 10 to 12 different things a day, and on the days I pitch, there's four more things. There's a caffeine drink I take from a company that (former teammate) Curt Schilling introduced me to in '05. I take some Korean ginseng and a few other proteins out there that are not certified. But I haven't failed any tests, so I figured I'm good."

On treatment of users: "I can see where guys like Hank Aaron and some of the old-timers have a beef with it. But as far as looking at Manny Ramirez like he's (serial killer) Ted Bundy, you're out of your mind. At the end of the day, you think anybody really (cares) whether Manny Ramirez's kidneys fail and he dies at 50?"

On the 2003 announcement by MLB that 5-7% tested positive for steroid use: "I think most of us believed we'd be way over 5%. You knew for a fact there were a lot more guys taking the stuff five years prior to that."

On amphetamine/stimulant use: "That stuff's like bubblegum compared to steroids. You're playing (night games) in L.A., you fly across the country, and you're pitching a day game at Wrigley (Field in Chicago). You telling me you don't want something to wake you up? You have half this country, maybe more, that can't function without a cup of coffee... Give me a break. If you give me (the amphetamine) Adderall, and I strike out Pujols in the seventh inning with the bases loaded, there's a pretty good chance I'm going to want to take that Adderall the next time."

"People can think what they want of me. I don't give a f—-."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 13 2009 09:58 PM

Strikes me as probably closest to the truth I've ever heard on this topic. He's dead right about the mindset of the athlete.

metirish Aug 14 2009 06:32 AM

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2b2ewmd2]Strikes me as probably closest to the truth I've ever heard on this topic. He's dead right about the mindset of the athlete.[/quote:2b2ewmd2] yeah me too , refreshing I think to hear this from a player. link http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball ... rned_N.htm

Edgy DC Aug 14 2009 08:09 AM

"People can think what they want of me. I don't give a f—-." Oh, I do.

seawolf17 Aug 14 2009 08:27 AM

Sure, it's "refreshing" to hear guys like Arroyo come out openly like this, but really, it underlines the whole problem. Professional athletes are mollycoddled their whole lives these days; they have access to the finest facilities, charter planes, luxury hotel suites, meal money, and groupies. Of course they feel a sense of entitlement that they don't have to play by the same rules as the rest of society, or even of their peers.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2009 01:47 PM Re: Quotes of 2009

From Ken Davidoff's Blog: Quote of the Week: Not really, but it was a convenient way to fit in a Mets story or two, and besides I cracked up when I read Jerry Manuel's thoughts here on Wilson Valdez: ""The more that he plays, the more that he appears to grow on you." I love the qualifying "It appears," as if Manuel will take it back when he wakes up this morning and reads this blog. Just imagine if Jerry Maguire had said to Dorothy Boyd, "You appear to complete me," and she responded, "You appear to have had me at hello." Perhaps not as impactful, eh?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 25 2009 07:44 AM Re: Quotes of 2009

"It's like going to work everyday, and having a bad day." Mike Pelfrey