Chase Utley continues to live rent-free in Mets’ heads
One former Mets great couldn’t wait to throw shade at the Phillies’ legend.
The rivalry between the Mets and the Phillies is among the fiercest in all of baseball. These two teams don’t like each other a little bit, and any player in either team who steps up against it’s chief NL East foe achieves legend status. Witness Francisco Lindor last October:
That grand slam led to an NL Division Series win over the Phillies, one of the few times in the last couple decades the Mets have held the upper hand, thanks in no small part to the Phillies’ core of stars in the late 2000s.
Former Mets All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes endured many battles with the Phillies in his ten seasons with the team. So he didn’t have to think too hard when he was asked about his least favorite opponent on SNY’s Baseball Night in New York.
HOST SAL LICATA: Which team or player did you dislike the most?
REYES: Uh, team? Philadelphia, because I always go to Philly and they boo me. And the guy that I don’t like, we never say hello to each other was Chase Utley. We went to Japan to play that [exhibition] series in Japan [in 2006], he played second base, I played shortstop, we never say hello. So, and after what he did to [Ruben] Tejada [in the 2015 NLDS] –
