Cody Ross and the Ranks of the Unforgiven

Carlos Beltran

Joe Paterno

John Rocker

Fred Wilpon

Oh, and this dude:

Wait what?

Heck, I’d probably root for Victorino too.

The only two active guys I can think of are Guillermo Mota and Josh Lueke. Mota because he fucked us over in 2006 and 2007, and Lueke because he’s a rapist P.O.S.

Oh, and Brett Myers too probably although I’m not sure.

Ugh…thanks for making it a reality Omar.

Myers is a good one too

Different sport but I could never root for scumbags like Patrick Kaleta and Matt Cooke. I also couldn,t root for a rapist like Big Ben or a. Dog killer like Vick.

Not a Mets fan anymore, and this player is not active, but there was a pitcher named Kaz Tadano that I could never root for. He was a Japanese pitcher who appeared in a gay porn movie in Japan and basically got him exiled from Japanese baseball. I don’t really care if he’s gay or whatever but the stupidity that he would appear in a gay porn movie while trying to make a living in baseball is something I could not get over, ever. He ended up with a cup of coffee with the Cleveland Indians and did pitch a year in Japan.

He never got the big hits when they counted, and was always him first, team second. He never deserved that contract he got and I’m glad he’s gone. The absolute definition of a loser, no wonder the Yankees didn’t want him. At least they have class.

and Cole Hamels immediately came to my mind.

I could have rooted for Chipper – even though he’s the #1 modern day Met killer in my mind. As much as he did that and it’s fun to hear the boos every time he comes to the plate, I’ve got some respect for him as a ball player. So if we got him back in his prime, yeah….I probably could have gotten over the early day Brave wearing Chipper.

and by the end I couldn’t even watch his AB’s because I was sick of constantly hearing about his “new approach” as he grounds out to short on a 3-2 pitch. Basically every other player that I dislike it’s only because they are on another team and I wouldn’t have any issue cheering for them if they were Mets. Maybe Victornio but that’s about it.

Shane Victorino, Jonathan Papelbon, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Brett Myers and Brian Wilson.

Probably a bunch of others.

Aside from the obvious, one of my college buddies had a gig where he was a clubhouse assistant one summer (I wanna say 2009) for the Phillies AAA team in Allentown, and even though he is a Phillies fan himself, he was taken aback by how much of an asshole Rollins was having encountered him in person on a rehab assignment. Just doesn’t seem like a good dude.

Also, I don’t think I could root for Manny Ramirez even if the hormone stuff never came out. Never really liked him even when he was setting the world on fire with his bat. He always manages to burn whatever bridges he has/had professionally and the stories of his pure pettiness while in Boston are jaw-dropping.

Is there anyone currently playing that, if he joined the Mets, you absolutely could not root for?

if john rocker declared himself active, came to the mets door and begged on his knees for a contract, i would slam the door, right there. victorino and rollins are pretty close to that.

I could not cheer for that guy, even in a Mets uniform. Myers, Lueke, Joba Chamberlain, Jonathan Papelbon, BJ Upton, Hanley Ramirez, Cogz4Pie and Jimmy Rollins come to mind as others, although the rest are in a lesser class compared to the first two

At the end of that linked NYP article describing the Ross/Pelf incident, Jerry Manuel says something very Jerry Manuel-like that is hilarious:

On Ryan Church: “We gave him a couple of shots in Philadelphia against lefties and didn’t quite get the at-bats I was looking for.”

Really, Jerry? You expected to get an “at-bat you were looking for” by matching up Church with a LHP? Oh my. I wonder what I was thinking witnessing these pinch-hit at bats Jerry is speaking of in 2008.

Nobody active. The MLB standard of villainy has declined alarmingly.

Contract issues aside, take me back to 1990 and that would probably be my answer. Not for any particular reason, I just didn’t like him. It doesn’t help that the only game I ever saw at Shea was a miserable loss to the Pirates. Add in the early ‘90s Mets and the fact that he’s still on the payroll… He may have been a decent player, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. For anyone else, I would be fine with them on the team if there were an official Designated HBPer role (even if that took ABs away from Turner), but I just want the Bonilla era to end in my lifetime.

I’m a pretty calm guy in general, but nobody makes my blood boil like that asshole.

Beyond him, John Rocker would be another if he were still active, Guillermo Mota, Luis Ayala, Scott Schoeneweis (pretty much anybody from those godawful 2007/2008 bullpens). Of course, Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell would be high up on the list. Also, I don’t think I could ever root for Carlos Zambrano and after the whole David Wright beaning incident from 2009, Matt Cain might have a spot too.

For baseball fan reasons, Victorino, Hamels, Jeter, Hanley Ramirez, Horsesex face Teixeria, Rollins, Eckstein, and HIS NAME IS DAN UGGLA.

Brian Wilson, Papelbon, Valverde, and yes, KRod. Their overflowing testosterone and outrageous egos bug me. the greatest closers of all time — Rivera and Hoffman — did not need to act like cavemen in order to prove their competitive manliness. Also, Brian Wilson is just not funny.

Trolliest performance in a three game series I have ever seen.

Hendu. Dave Henderson. I hated that little “tippy toe” thing he did when he was about to catch a fly ball. And just because of that – that’s the only reason – I disliked him.

ftw

Jeter, Rollins, Hanley Ramirez, Victorino, and Chipper. I suppose Myers and Lueke for their off-field conduct (most stuff, I wouldn’t care about, but that’s over the line for me.) He’s already been mentioned, but Brian Wilson’s antics fail to amuse me so badly that I almost hate the guy. Constanza and Leonard Davis for taking out Murphy. Add Cole Hamels to the list, too.

He just seems like a punk to me is all, and not the good kind. When I picture him in my head, I see him mouthing off from the batter’s box or the bench for some stupid reason, screaming at umps or the opposing pitcher for some slight, real or imagined.

I just want to point out that, for the most part, the 1986 Mets were nothing but a collection of what you describe above.

Not that I can even conceive of him being on the Mets in the first place.

…then we can add him to the list too.

Ross to the Red Sox.

I’d have no problem rooting for Chipper. Guy killed us, but was never a douche about it.