K-Rod's Inflated Ego Fitting Right in With Mets

One of the Mets better give their new closer a little history lesson...

"Of course, we're going to try to win the division. Of course, we're going to be the front-runner. Of course, we're going to be the team to beat," he said Saturday.

Wow. Francisco Rodriguez managed to borrow from J-Roll's two most famous quotes in one statement.

Team to beat, huh? You're now in the same division as the World Champs, K-hole. You may not have seen the World Series, since, ya know, your former, heavily favored team missed out on that particular event after choking even more than your new club did. Also, haven't we heard this from the Mets before? After signing Johan Santana last February, Carlos Beltran trotted out the "Team to Beat" line.

"With (Santana), now, I have no doubt that we're going to win in our division," Beltran said. "So this year, to Jimmy Rollins, we are the team to beat."

Yeah how'd that work out for ya, Carlos? With the way they're already talking, you'd think this team hasn't been a gigantic embarrassment for the last two years.

Comments

[MSM]

Typical d-bag. They still have no middle relief, Putz or otherwise. How does a team with nothing to brag about still have the utter balls to trot this shit out? It's this stuff that makes every other team in the division want to beat the hell out of them.

[Chamomiles Davis]

I said it when New York signed Martinez, then Wagner, then Santana, and now I'll say it again for K-Rod: I can't wait to see how the Mets fuck this up.

[mike c]

fuck you k-rod you dumb piece of shit

[Tony]

I cant wait for his first blown save vs. us

[K in South Jersey]

talk's cheap...especially in December

let's hear what you have to say in September

[FRChris]

Mets may be the "team to beat," but the Phils are "World Effin Champions!" Who cares what this d-bags has to say?

The game of words no longer matters; we won the Series last year. The first rule of digging yourself a hole: stop digging, Mets.

[KidCarnivore]

STILL the Mets, who cares who's inside the jersey. A bunch of greasy losers who look like extras from The Warriors.

[Liam]

Let him say whatever he wants. Just makes it that much more fun to watch him blow saves against the phils.

[Zach]

Imagine the Mets do win the division next season (Hamels, Lidge, Howard, etc. join Utley on the DL), how can there be any pride for the team or the fans? "Congratulations, your team can afford so many big contracts that even though only 1% pan out, you can still succeed."

The biggest free agent on the champion Phillies team was Adam Eaton. They had only 2 players (Lidge and Moyer) who had been All-Stars with former teams. That is a real team.

[Stevek]

Can someone from EITHER organization come up with something actually clever to fire at the opposing ball club? The mets* have been and continue to be so ridiculously pathetic for the last two years, in every aspect. The team to beat statement was a shocker when J-Roll said it in 07. It's all bullshit now. Can the mets* actually stfu and play the game, and stop choking? Have they anything to brag about? No. My Philadelphia Phillies are defending world FUCKING champions. The mets* are a bunch of losers who choke. Keep making the organization look worse than it already is K-Rod, we love to watch the Phils prove you greaseballs wrong on the field where it counts. END rant.

*=The mets franchise name does not deserve to be capitalized.

[Walklett]

K-rod = Dork spelled backwards

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Krod

[Mike H.]

Of course, we're fucking assholes.
Of course, we'll find a way to choke it up again.
Of course, we'll dance like assholes when we have a 6-2 lead and then lose 7-6.

Tiger don't change it's stripes. Bitches don't change their whining.

[Jeffrey]

Yawn. That's old material, K-Rod.

[Jason]

K-Rod is another fuck up waiting to happen for the mets, I don't know how we can lose to the mets really, the worst franchise in MLB two years in a row, ok maybe not worst, but definately the biggest choke artists and the least American, move your team to puerto rico and shut the FUCK UP!

[Terententen]

K-hole = greatest nickname of all time.

[Chris]

The Mets have become the Cowboys of MLB at this point, what with their "if we sign enough superstar douchebags we'll eventually have enough talent to overcome our complete lack of heart and chemistry, right?" philosophy of roster management

[doubleh]

Wake me when the mets finally win something.

[Dan]

I don't understand how you can say your the team to beat in the division when you are in the same division as the team that has won the division two years in a row and won the world series this year. Gotta love idiots it gives us something to talk about.

[Sponge-Worthy]

Bring. It. On.

[Steve]

Personally I'm glad he said it, pride comes before the fall. It's funny at this point, last year maybe you had to take it seriously when Beltran said it because they had just acquired one of the best pitchers in the league, but until they actually don't choke September away they're just a running joke. It just makes them look even more pathetic when their players are dumb enough to say "we're the team to beat" while Phillies fans are busy getting their picture taken with the World Series trophy at CBP.

[Meghan]

I thought the World Fucking Champions were automatically the team to beat? Its sort of something that goes with the title.

[HLH]

The only "of course" that should be coming out of any mets players mouth is, Of course they are gonna collapse at the end of the season.......Only this time it's not gonna matter because we are already gonna be in first place. WORLD PHUCKING CHAMPIONS!

[Jonn]

Hold on guys, now I'm a little nervous. I think he's got a great point. Let's face it, he's been in NY for about a week now. I'm sure he has some great insight into the Mets situation.

And c'mon, they HAVE to be the team to beat. It's not like we won the World Series.

Sigh... I do love it when the Muts sign a big name and then manage to use that player to screw it all up anyway. It's like Christmas morning to see the dejected look on their faces come September.