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Goose Gossage brings heat on Jose Reyes’ dancing

Thanks to a Revivarant burst of Art Martone for this one…

Gossage believes the dancing antics of Jose Reyes are one reason why the Mets have been in a tailspin since last September.

“There’s not enough mustard in the city to cover Reyes,” said Gossage, who was at the Stadium to give a pitching clinic to Bronx Little Leaguers and raise money to support inner-city youth baseball leagues in six cities. “He needs to act like a professional.

“I don’t want this sport to turn into football where they dance after every play. I can’t stand that - the dancing, the laughing - there’s no place for that in the game. He’s not the first great player to play - I wouldn’t even say great because he hasn’t won anything yet.”

Repoz Posted: June 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM | 38 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 12:51 PM (#2826777)

Someone pleeeeeeeease tell Goose he's in the Hall and he can go away now.

2. Ray (RDP)

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 12:52 PM (#2826780)

Gossage is the new Bob Feller.

3. Blackadder Posted: June 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM (#2826786)

geet offer mah lawwwnnn!

4. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:01 PM (#2826791)

Jose is Latin, he can't help dancing. It's in his feet!

Who was the scout who got all the flak for the Latin comments oh so many years ago. I can't believe I even remember the "scandal".

5. bunyon Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:05 PM (#2826797)

Who was the old-timer who used to dance on the bases whenever he got on? Early 20th century.

Even though I'm approaching 40, I'm thinking the world worked better when folks didn't live much past 30. Not that it was better, but that it worked better. The old farts need to go play golf and stay quiet. (Perhaps it's just that I'd like to just go play golf and stay quiet)

6. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:06 PM (#2826798)

Can we get Cliff Johnson in here? He can't be too busy.

7. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:07 PM (#2826799)

Even though I'm approaching 40, I'm thinking the world worked better when folks didn't live much past 30. Not that it was better, but that it worked better. The old farts need to go play golf and stay quiet. (Perhaps it's just that I'd like to just go play golf and stay quiet)

A Logan's Run remake is in the works!

(I loved that movie a wee tyke. I look forward to Hollywood effin up my fond memeories)

8. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:20 PM (#2826805)

I was coming in with a snippy comment, but Dr. Memory and Ray DiPerna basically covered what I wanted to say....

9. JJ1986 Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:25 PM (#2826808)

Jose should be more like Adam Dunn and not care about baseball.

10. Lassus Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:38 PM (#2826813)

Actually, if Gossage had been paying attention, he'd notice that Reyes is currently our best player and practically the only reason we are winning ANY games, and it was only after he stopped acting like a 65-year-old man that he started playing well.

11. Famous Original Joe C Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:51 PM (#2826822)

“There’s not enough mustard in the city to cover Reyes”

12. There are no words... (Met Fan Charlie) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:52 PM (#2826825)

Didn't the Goose have a teammate named "Reggie?"

Yep. Thought so...

13. Hubie Brooks (Not Really) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 01:53 PM (#2826826)

So now that he got what he wanted he can move on from complaining about 1 inning closers to the real problem of Jose Reyes having fun.

Goose the Douche.

14. Mark S. Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:07 PM (#2826837)

A Logan's Run remake is in the works!

(I loved that movie a wee tyke. I look forward to Hollywood effin up my fond memeories)

It's on Turner Classic Movies occasionally. Watching the original again should destroy your fond memories well before the remake does.

15. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:13 PM (#2826842)

It's on Turner Classic Movies occasionally. Watching the original again should destroy your fond memories well before the remake does.

I own the DVD. I still like the set design and the robot cracks me up with its crappiness. That robot is good times! Other than that, it's pretty clunky. Hollywood will ruin it with CGI. CGI is a goddam scourge.

16. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:14 PM (#2826845)

I'm thinking the world worked better when folks didn't live much past 30.

today's cave men they eat mammoth after cooking we not need cooking in my day we eat mammoth raw not have this fancy "fire" aurochshit

17. Doris from Rego Park Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:15 PM (#2826846)

Goose better hurry before Manual gets his cuts in.

18. RJ in TO Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:28 PM (#2826857)

Who was the old-timer who used to dance on the bases whenever he got on? Early 20th century.

That sounds like Rabbit Maranville, although there are so many stories about his weirdness, it's hard to tell if he really did this, or if it was invented afterwards.

19. The cushions are crowded for Edmundo

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:35 PM (#2826862)

A Logan's Run remake is in the works!

A campy take on that theme is Wild in the Streets (1968). It has some brand name actors like Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook and Ed Begley and Richard Pryor. Its theme song, "Shape of Things to Come" was a hit single.

Unrelated except by name, I recently caught most of Things to Come (1936) -- Screenplay by H. G. Wells! Pretty fantastic stuff -- you have to remember that the special effects are from 70 years ago. Also the sound is pretty rough.

20. bunyon Posted: June 20, 2008 at 02:45 PM (#2826870)

That sounds like Rabbit Maranville, although there are so many stories about his weirdness, it's hard to tell if he really did this, or if it was invented afterwards.

That's it. I guess my main point is that there have always been interesting characters in the game who do things that are "unprofessional". I suppose no one likes them during their careers and then we'll pine away for decades about how no one is like them anymore.

Someone needs to tell Reyes to just play. He's got enough money not to ever need someone like Goose to ever say a kind thing about him.

21. Cris E Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:23 PM (#2826915)

Baseball is not supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be work, and lots of it: more than one inning at a time, dangerous to hitters and pitchers alike, and most of all drab with dark lowlights. This is serious stuff and it can't be messed with by some dancing nymph.

Seriously, how much fun must the Little Leaguers have had listening to cranky Goose? And how about the notion that today's players have no experience with off-field distractions and won't be able to handle it like the old pros did Back in the Day. If I ever sound like this I hope my friends and family feel comfortable enough to step in and hit me with a shovel.

22. Cris E Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:25 PM (#2826917)

Also, they are remaking The Warriors (which could be cool) and Red Dawn (which sounds so echoingly irrelevant as to be intriguing).

23. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:26 PM (#2826922)

Also, they are remaking The Warriors (which could be cool) and Red Dawn (which sounds so echoingly irrelevant as to be intriguing).

Red Dawn? What, are they going to have us invaded by C.O.B.R.A.?

24. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:34 PM (#2826934)

Red Dawn? What, are they going to have us invaded by C.O.B.R.A.?

the Lampoon did it better many years before

25. Raskolnikov Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:38 PM (#2826941)

Back in Goose's days, baseball players had to walk 10 miles barefoot in the snow to the ballpark every day - uphill, both ways.

26. SoSH U at work Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:45 PM (#2826952)

Back in Goose's days, baseball players had to walk 10 miles barefoot in the snow to the ballpark every day - uphill, both ways.

Hell, back in Goose's day he didn't even have to walk 150 yards from the bullpen to the damn mound. He got driven there.

27. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:46 PM (#2826956)

Hell, back in Goose's day he didn't even have to walk 150 yards from the bullpen to the damn mound. He got driven there.

I miss the bullpen cars. They were the culmination of a stupid idea whose time should never have run out.

28. JMM Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:47 PM (#2826958)

Didn't the Goose have a teammate named "Reggie?"

Yep. Thought so...

And, later on, Rickey.

And it's not like Goose behaved like he was in the accountancy out there.

29. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 03:48 PM (#2826962)

"That sounds like Rabbit Maranville, although there are so many stories about his weirdness, it's hard to tell if he really did this, or if it was invented afterwards."

A lot of old timers were funny about baserunning. Pete Browning refused to slide, ever, for any reason.

30. jwb Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:00 PM (#2826981)

Pete Browning refused to slide, ever, for any reason.

Crack vials in his back pocket.

31. Hack Wilson Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:06 PM (#2826988)

I miss the bullpen cars. They were the culmination of a stupid idea whose time should never have run out.

I told my daughter about that and she didn't believe me. I remember some golf carts, but didn't some car makers donate cars?

32. Boots Day Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:10 PM (#2826998)

Joanthan Papelbon's dancing is the reason the Red Sox haven't won anything while he's been there.

33. A triple short of the cycle

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:32 PM (#2827058)

Ahoy - bullpen boat:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/1602627276_54540383c8_b.jpg

34. MexicanGabe Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:33 PM (#2827059)

The difference is the Papelbon dances AFTER they win... So there.

35. CW hits the pinata for the candy Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:46 PM (#2827082)

Ahoy - bullpen boat:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/1602627276_54540383c8_b.jpg

I've decided that's entirely made up. Nice Photoshop.

(Please don't confront me with your "truth." It's better for me this way.)

36. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: June 20, 2008 at 04:50 PM (#2827085)

Ahoy - bullpen boat:

The Mariners have to bring this back. They will never win the Series if they don't.

37. There are no words... (Met Fan Charlie) Posted: June 20, 2008 at 05:06 PM (#2827102)

I remember some golf carts, but didn't some car makers donate cars?

Yes, indeed.

http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2007/10/Yankees_Datsun_Bullpen_Car.jpg

PS -- Howcum Richard Dotson didn't have to change his name to Richard Nissan...?

38. Benji Posted: June 20, 2008 at 06:58 PM (#2827294)

Does Gossage blink when Cano and Melky jump around? Or Joba? Or is it OKIYAY?

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