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MLB.com: Phillies deny Myers wants to be traded

Phillies assistant general manager Mike Arbuckle shot down a published report that suggested Brett Myers has requested a trade.

Former Phillies closer Ricky Bottalico, now a television analyst for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, was quoted in the story, saying, “I know for a fact that he wants to be traded. Brett wants to be a closer, and he’s not closing in Philadelphia. He’s banking on getting outta there. You know it as well as I do that he doesn’t want to be with the Phillies anymore. He’s made that perfectly clear.” The story, which appeared in the Bucks County Courier Times, had a contained a denial from Myers and Phillies management.

Add Arbuckle to that list.

“He doesn’t want to be traded,” Arbuckle said. “I don’t know where all of that came from. He’s always made it clear that he likes it here. It’s home now. This is the only organization he’s known. That was much ado about nothing. He’s given us no indication that he wants to be traded.”

NTNgod Posted: July 09, 2008 at 12:57 AM | 14 comment(s)
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1. Crashburn Alley Posted: July 09, 2008 at 01:37 AM (#2850230)

From everything I've seen and heard, Myers not only took his demotion with grace, he openly admitted that he deserved it. He has not appeared agitated and has not said one thing in the least that would indicate that he wants to be traded.

If he did want to be traded, I could understand it, but based off of the information I've been privy to, I don't think this is the case. Bottalico is talking out of his ass, it seems.

2. With 17th Pick, From LA, 1k5v3L KcoLLoP Posted: July 09, 2008 at 01:50 AM (#2850237)

From everything I've seen and heard, Myers not only took his demotion with grace...

...he also dragged them by the hair down the street and beat the living crap out of them

3. El Hijo del Ron Santo (Alan Keiper) Posted: July 09, 2008 at 07:28 AM (#2850277)

Anyone hear Bottalico actually do the color for the IronPigs? He's as bad an announcer as anyone I've heard in my relatively young baseball life. It's like listening to a frat boy call the game.

4. retro-shiite Posted: July 09, 2008 at 08:48 AM (#2850310)

he openly admitted that he deserved it.

Not surprising. After all, he's apparently on the other side of the "s/he had it coming" dynamic in his own household.

5. Shooty Is A One Man Legion Posted: July 09, 2008 at 08:54 AM (#2850313)

How many GM's does it take to trade Brett Myers?

One, if he knows what's good for him!

6. retro-shiite Posted: July 09, 2008 at 09:10 AM (#2850316)

Wife beater jokes never get old, do they?

They've, um...got it coming.

7. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: July 09, 2008 at 10:16 AM (#2850368)

...he also dragged them by the hair down the street and beat the living crap out of them

That's not true, they fell down the stairs.

8. retro-shiite Posted: July 09, 2008 at 10:35 AM (#2850379)

That's not true, they fell down the stairs.

Coffee spew successfully triggered. Nicely done.

9. Belfry Bob Posted: July 09, 2008 at 11:53 AM (#2850460)

Former Phillies closer Ricky Bottalico, now a television analyst for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs...

Now there's a resume to be proud of...

10. Crashburn Alley Posted: July 09, 2008 at 03:46 PM (#2850836)

Yeah, the wife-beating jokes got old a long time ago. Listening to Brett Myers/wife-beating jokes is like listening to Dane Cook stand-up: the same joke over and over again with very little variance. Oh, and it's stolen from someone else (zing!).

It'd be one thing if Kim Myers was A) hurt or B) didn't forgive him, but she forgave her husband for the incident. If she can forgive him, I think you guys can, too. They've been working together to strengthen their relationship in counseling, I think that's admirable.

11. T.J. makes a mochary or the sport Posted: July 09, 2008 at 07:55 PM (#2851209)

"Nothing, you already told her twice."

12. baseball chick, now with lousy baseball team Posted: July 09, 2008 at 11:13 PM (#2851556)

dear crash

MOST beaten women "forgive" the man who beat them. women who the man puts in intensive care refuse to press charges. what of it? you really think that makes things just peachy?

it doesn't change the fact that brett myers is the kind of man who feels perfectly comfortable putting his fist in the face of a defenseless human being who is half his size. and now he is in treatment to learn how to resist hitting a woman when he feels like it. isn't that special.

i don't believe that most men will hit a woman. i DO believe that most men believe that men who hit women are beneath contempt. i'm sorry you apparently feel different. it doesn't exactly say good things about you

13. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: July 09, 2008 at 11:21 PM (#2851563)

Assuming that the forgiveness is or isn't legitimate seems a bit unwarranted to me. The fact is, we just don't know what the situation is. It's possible to imagine a situation in which one event could be put in the past, however unlikely this is to be such a situation. That said, I've got no problem with the jokes, as it seems to me that Brett Myers is a lousy and stupid fellow.

14. akrasian Posted: July 10, 2008 at 01:17 AM (#2851605)

It'd be one thing if Kim Myers was A) hurt or B) didn't forgive him, but she forgave her husband for the incident. If she can forgive him, I think you guys can, too. They've been working together to strengthen their relationship in counseling, I think that's admirable.

As BC wrote - the "forgiving" is typical in those relationships. I don't buy it. I have a good friend who constantly covered up and forgave her husband for his "incidents" - none nearly as serious as Brett's. It's rare that such things are one time incidents. Such egregious things as what Brett did are likely virtually never a one time occurance.

I can understand (not condone) taking a swing. It would require counseling, but anger management can be an issue. That violent though, or repeated (as I strongly suspect is the case for Myers also, given all I know about domestic violence) is something different. If it gets to that level, then if the attacker hasn't sought treatment on his own prior to that, it means he is basically scum.

There are very few players I actively hate - Myers has made that short list.

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