I swear to Casey Stengal, Reyes’ head has been so fucked up with all this nonsense about his celebrations. Maybe they should be tempered somewhat (something that might come with age) but there’s no reason a failed manager like Mazzilli (as lame a skipper, if not lamer, than Willie) should be so obsessed with it and come down on him like a sledgehammer. I mean what would you rather watch, some exuberance, or Beltran with that bored look on his face?

Face it, in today’s sports age everyone overacts. NBA players go nuts when they just score 1/50 of their teams points for a game. If you want to shut the other team up either throw at their head or simply beat their ass in the game. All the rest is bullshit.

Funny enough, I don’t care if the Phillies’ and their announcers/fans are griping about Reyes’s HR trot the other night. That’s their birthright – to bellyache. I do have a problem with Mazilli, however. I don’t see him on t.v. so I have no idea what he’s like usually, but you couldn’t be more right about those 86 Mets. All those curtain calls were certainly putting it up to the other team and, well, the Mets were hated and responded well when teams sought “payback”. What’s his problem?

Despite their comments, the reality is that what irritated those Phillies was not Reyes’ celebratory burst around the bases, cause we have all seen that done many times before and by every team…but rather it was his clutch 3-run homer that upset them, and their sudden realization that they were dropping down to second place. It was the 12 strikeouts and failure to handle Ollie Perez. It was having their MVP arrive late and not start. It was watching Utley and Howard fan three times each, and above all, it was losing yet another series to the Mets, for the fourth time this year, since they entered 2008 thinking they totally had the Mets pysched out after the events of 2007.

The Phillies celebrated loudly on Tuesday after their incredible win, they had their hands up in the air pumping, in our house, but the Mets got the last laugh this week. The Phillies need to re-group, and right now they are very worried about what they are seeing from the Mets.

As for Mazilli, get a life, Lee!

I live in South New Jersey which is 90% Philly phans because i’m a stones throw away from Philly and I have to live with it all year long with the Phils and Eagles. Veterans stadium, at the time, was the only stadium that had a small court room and jail cell INSIDE the stadium and if you started a fight or did something bad, they would try you right there at the park. that is how UNclassy philly fans are – that they needed to put a jail in the stadium itself. Not sure if the Linc has one but I’m sure it does.

I’m so glad the Mets are playing with the same emotion that won them the division in ‘06. I’m sure no one remembers but I called for Willie’s head the day the season ended last year. We’d problaby be in first by 10 games by now if we had done that. Figures now the phils play the braves who just lost Hudson and Chipper Jones. They will sweep them I’m sure