Saturday, November 7, 2009

Boom Outta Here: Brett Myers

Yesterday, Ruben Amaro Jr announced that the Phillies were going to be parting way with long time pitcher Brett Myers. Myers has been on the team for the better part of a decade, excluding injuries and moonlighting stints trying to unsuck on the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Brett has provided us with thrilling moments like the epic walk he managed against CC Sabathia in last year’s playoff run or being the closer on the mound when the Phillies made the playoffs for the first time since 1993.

Brett has also provided us with many forehead slapping, boneheaded, stupid moves like first inning home runs and run ins with the press. Jim Rome has made one of those run ins the stuff of legend on his afternoon radio show and it is that particular press conference that I titled this post after. Here is the clip:

Despite all of that, Brett Myers was the kind of a guy you wanted to root for. He was homegrown, having come up through the Phillies farm season following his drafting by the team. He was a funny guy, as can be seen in the following video of one of the best pranks ever:

Poor Kyle, that prank seems a little tasteless now considering the implosion of Kendrick’s major league career.

O, I forgot to mention the “incident” in Boston a few years back and the “incident” a few weeks ago during a “fight” at a bar. You see, above everything else, Brett was prone to anger. You could hear it in that press conference I posted above. You could see it on the mound following a base hit or a walk. He would stomp around, lose composure, and throw the next pitch stupidly hard, right down the middle and more often than not be left standing on the mound, hands on his hips watching a home run land in the distance.

It is that same anger that defined so much of Brett Myers career as a baseball player that also defined who he was off the field. During inter-league play a few years ago, Brett Myers was arrested in Boston for domestic violence. In the ensuing years, this fan never forgot that. Brett Myers, despite everything else, was in all likelihood, an angry redneck prone to violence against women.

I’m not sad to see him go.

Boom Outta Here.

Bye Brett.

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