After Jose Reyes made an error in the seventh inning of yesterday's game against the Yankees, he threw a temper tantrum that would make Tanner of the Bad News Bears proud. While Jose Molina was batting, he threw his glove and sunglasses to the ground. Luckily the ball settled into Ryan Church's glove and the shortstop wasn't needed to do anything that required a glove. Keith Hernandez and Gary Cohen, announcing the game in New York and transcribed by Neil Best, were not pleased by Reyes's display.
Cohen: Reyes has taken his glove off and is standing hands on hips out there, with the glove on the ground. That's something you don't like to see. That's not a good look.
John Delcos of the Journal News didn't care for the display either.Hernandez: Well, he's got to get over that. Enough babying going on now. He's a grown man, he's been around a long enough time. Take off the kid gloves.
He does these things because the Mets let him. He loses focus because the Mets don't do anything about it when he does.
Some players have said Willie Randolph wanted to lean on him harder, but the front office wouldn't let him.
My suggestion? Stop putting everything the Mets do in a petri dish and examining it for a cure to cancer.He's 25 now and time is running out on reeling in his behavior.
