If you love to hate on the Mets, you can't ask for much more schadenfreude than we've gotten over the past year. In the latest installment, the New York Post has SS Jose Reyes in a heated exchange with announcer/former player/Seinfeld star Keith Hernandez on the team's flight to St. Louis.
Jose Reyes and Keith Hernandez had to be separated on the Mets charter plane Sunday night after a tense confrontation over Hernandez's critical comments about the All-Star shortstop.
A team source described the situation aboard the plane as "very
heated." One player told The Post that he thought Reyes and the popular
former Met - now an analyst for the club's SNY TV network - were close
to exchanging punches until others stepped in.
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With the Mets coming to town for a 4-game holiday weekend showdown with
the Phillies, it's great to see their heads are all focused on what the announcers are saying rather than the huge interdivision set that's about to start.
Reyes was apparently pissed that, after he threw his glove after committing an error, Hernandez indicated that it was time for the Mets to stop babying him and "take the kid gloves off."
"He got his point [across] and I got mine," Reyes, when asked to
describe the confrontation, told The Post before he drove in three runs
in the Mets' 11-1 victory over the Cardinals last night. "I'm not too
happy with the way he's been talking."According to one account, strongly denied by both Reyes and
Hernandez, what set Reyes off during the flight was when Hernandez
allegedly responded to Reyes' concerns by saying: "I was just doing my
job - you should do yours."
He was also said to have won the argument simply by shouting, "I'm Keith Hernandez!"