abreu

God I hope phils win wildcard so they’ll have to be some explanations in all the articles about how great abreu is for the Yankees but the phils started winning once they got rid of #53.

 

Subtle criticsm has already started. From Rich hoffman
 
 
 
The Phillies' great sale was completed a little more than 3 weeks ago, and no one yet has offered a definitive explanation for what has transpired since. David

Bell, Bobby Abreu, Cory Lidle, Rheal Cormier, Ryan Franklin, Sal Fasano: You know the names, and you know what has happened in their absence. But why? Why did the Phillies start winning without them?

Slap in the face, wake-up call, name your motivational cliche; that has been a popular offering, but it still seems lacking. There has to be something else. You say that to Jimmy Rollins and he nods. He has thought about this, clearly.

"It's the attitude of the team," the Phillies' shortstop said, and it sounds like the beginning of another cliche. Except it isn't.

"We have great players," he said. "We also lost some great players. And, you know, it seems funny to say that any bit of it is selfish. But in the way they played the game, they wouldn't expand outside their discipline. In sports, sometimes you have

to do something you wouldn't normally do in order to help the team win. Some of the players, they came here, they did their job, and it was in the box. It was never outside the box."

Rollins is pantomiming now, drawing an imaginary box with his fingers, drawing in the air.

"Now we have a group of players who are outside the box," he said. "They play, scrap, I don't care, let's just win. It's a different attitude. It's definitely been the key to this great run so far."

Yeah, Jimmy’s only talking about Abreu when he’s saying that, maybe a little bit about Bell, but the other guys, no way. He’s crapping on Abreu.