Absolute Bitches

According to ESPN's Brandon Tierney, Darryl Strawberry walked into the Mets clubhouse and gave the team a "tough love" pep talk. Tierney cites a "Mets Insider" as saying Straw told the team and that they are better than a last place club, letting them know that it is "rough' watching them play, but [they're] better than what [they have] shown."

According to Tierney, some players were offended by Strawberry's comments and reportedly went to Jay Horowitz and told him to keep Strawberry out of the clubhouse.

Normally, I put no credence into what anyone on ESPN has to say. The organization has become to sports news what the WWF, (I refuse to call it "WWE"), is to sports. But I do believe this story and not because I find Tierney to be uniquely credible. I believe it based on the absolute softness that has defined this team over the past five years. Time and time again we have heard reports of players crying to Mets management about one thing or another. And who can forget the story of poor little Jose Reyes who was so offended that Keith Hernandez criticized his play that he actually initiated what was very close to becoming a physical altercation. Again, while that story was also reported by anonymous sources I believed it was true, based on everything Jose and his Mets have shown us. Not to mention the fact that Hernandez's reported response that "I'm doing my job, why don't you start doing yours!" is vintage Mex and could in no way have been made up.

The fact is that Straw was one of the greatest Mets of all time, and an integral part of the best Met era of all. He was as exciting and dynamic of an athlete that we will ever see. While there will always be a "what could have been" aspect to any conversation regarding him and the Mets, the reality is what he did give us was more that any of these clowns have shown they are capable of. Not a single player on this group can hold a candle to his legacy. So it may do them a bit of good to shut the hell up and listen to what he has to say.

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