Chipper Jones Talks Trash About the Mets and Phillies Talking Trash

After playing a significant role in 11 of the Braves' 14 consecutive division titles, Chipper Jones knows a thing or two about how to act while playing the role of the front-runner, and he's not impressed with those who have followed in his footsteps. From a recent interview with Sporting News:

We won for 14 consecutive years, and you never, ever saw any bulletin board material. And now that these two teams are on top of the division, they can't keep their mouths shut. Just go play baseball. It's Cole Hamels now. It was Jimmy Rollins and Carlos Beltran the past couple of springs. These two teams are constantly going at each other verbally. You know, win with class, lose with class. Just keep your mouth shut and go play your game.

Hamels? Check. Rollins? Check. Beltran? Check. But wait, don't forget John Maine and Billy Wagner!

I think part of the reason the Phillies/Mets rivalry is more fierce is pure geography: New York and Philadelphia are a scant 100 miles apart; the Braves, meanwhile, are 10 full hours in the car away from their nearest division rival. Plus, the Phillies and Mets have shared the top two spots in the NL East for the last few years, whereas the Braves had an ever-changing cast of challengers in that second spot.

In any case, you have to enjoy the irony: a guy talking trash about other guys talking too much trash -- it's a Dugout plot just begging to be written.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-02-2009 @ 7:07PM

TheHulk said...

Chipper is right and a class act...

The problem with Baseball is the players are the most uneducated athletes of any of the big 3 & a half (Hockey only counts as a half since the lockout) and they act like Retards with their 9th grade education.

1-02-2009 @ 7:42PM

JR said...

Hey Chipper: I guess you forgot a rather important Sports
Illustrated article a former Brave ranted in...John Rocker, and I recall
you at that time came out with rather nasty verbiage directed at
Met fans. Tsk Tisk, what a short memory you may have.
A Met Fan

1-02-2009 @ 11:27PM

kelpie1314 said...

Chipper Jones lecturing anyone on class is way too much irony for me.

1-03-2009 @ 10:57AM

Maria said...

A guy who was married with a small child and impregnanted a Hooters waitress at the same time should talk about class? That is ironic.

1-03-2009 @ 2:52PM

Kudo's Maria - GREAT COMMENT LOL, I now retract my first half of my first comment...

1-04-2009 @ 1:10PM

ralph said...

met fans are retards on the no7 train

1-04-2009 @ 4:03PM

Will said...

LARRY, YOU NAMED YOUR SON SHEA. You are and always will be red neck trash

1-04-2009 @ 8:33PM

Bill said...

Give me a break! Little Larry is just bitter because he is old and his team has no shot of going back to the playoffs before he retires!

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1-14-2009 @ 11:34AM

fred said...

This coming from a group of guys who said during the strike that it isn't like they wouldn't play for 4 or 5 million a year...the one thing the Braves did not do during their 14 year run was conduct themselves with class...it was during this time Bob Cox beat his wife, Rocker enlighted us with his neo nazi thinking several births out of wed lock...while wed locked...Atlanta is anything but a class organization...by the way how may World Series did they win...