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“I don’t care what people think,” Reyes said afterward. “A lot of people told me, ‘Don’t play today.’

“I want to stay in the game, but they (the fans) have to understand what’s going on. They have to feel happy about it if I win the batting title. I do that for the team, for the fans, too, because they’ve been supporting me all the way through.”

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“One thing I do all the time is play 100% every day,” Reyes said. “It is what it is. I went 1-for-1, we won the game, so that’s good.”

via Jose Reyes gets hit, leaves game early; wins batting title.

After Jose left the game I started to feel numb. It was like when I was 6 years old and my parent divorced – I lost my innocence again at age 39. Yes this has happened to me many times before – It happened with Piazza, it happened with Maz and it happened with Rusty. The difference is that I watched Jose come up as a rookie in ’03, I saw him mature as a player, He is along with Wright the face of this franchise.  To know that it is highly likely that he might not be back next season bothers me. But I know baseball is more of a business then a game these days. Players want to be paid, and sometimes in order to fulfill their egos they go to where the highest bidder is – instead of staying in a place that has been their home for a better part of a decade.

via This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty: The “My Reflections Of Yesterday” Edition 09-29-11.

Remember the last day at Shea?  We were so pumped.  Then the Mets lost, then the organization made us sit for half an hour while they meticulously lined up some signs, and then there was a ceremony that should have been awesome but we were too depressed to truly enjoy it.

That’s how I feel about yesterday.

Yesterday should have been a celebration of Jose (and his newly found magic ability to bunt for hits at will).  I didn’t like the one at bat thing.  Play.  Or Don’t play.

Did the game not matter?  Why leave Terry with one fewer player?

If he was tired, then sit out.

He could have come out in the 9th on defense to get an ovation.

He could have played 9 innings and been tired all winter.

I know that the cool kids are in “let it go” mode today, and it’s not like I am sitting here obsessing over it (I am more obsessed with how awful John Sterling was last night) – but I still don’t feel good about Jose’s last game as a Met.

 

After a bunt single in the first Jose was taken out. Gave the crowd a chance to applaud Jose as he walked off though it happened so fast many in the crowd did not realize he was coming out until he was already in the dugout

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