But How Do You Really Feel, Billy?
Oh, Snap. Billy fastball just pulled out the Emo-Card!
Wagner said he became "everyone's least favorite Phillie in the clubhouse" after he called his teammates on the carpet for their spiritless play in an interview that appeared July 1 in The Inquirer.Brett Myers isn't too happy about that. And Pat Burrell apparently called the new Met closer a "rat." I'm hoping for a brawl, as the Mets sweep the Pheel-deez and remind them what kind of gray and pink sore losers they are.
In response to Wagner's critical comments, former teammate Kenny Lofton called a team meeting in the weight room. Wagner described the meeting as "24 against one," and added that Pat Burrell called him a "rat" during the meeting....
"Me and Placido Polanco used to talk about it all the time last year," Wagner said. "Something needed to be said. I was trying to be a leader. I wasn't trying to say, 'You stink.' I was trying to say, 'We need to get going.' I wanted to win....
"After I called them out, they were waiting for me to fall flat," Wagner said. "In my mind, when I went out to the mound, they were waiting for me to go in the tank. I could be wrong, but that's the feeling I got."
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