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redlegsfan21
07-03-2008, 09:49 AM
From today's USA Today

He has ventured out a few times with teammates and says he feels more accepted by his Texas teammates than in Cincinnati last year, when no one invited him out. He sensed jealousy and perhaps resentment over the attention his comeback story received

"I even heard comments that I was signing too many autographs for the fans," he says. "It just got worse as the year went on."

The discord played no factor in the trade, but, Krivsky said: "There were issues in the clubhouse. Maybe that stuff would have gone by the boards had he stayed."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/rangers/2008-07-02-Hamilton_N.htm
Brad Harris
07-03-2008, 02:07 PM
I would suspect there's similar issues in any clubhouse where a n00b is producing and receiving lots of attention from media/fans on a team that has a number of long-term players and which hasn't won for some time. There's a certain "comfort" level of complacency that sets in with the veterans on a perennial second-division team. It's not surprising that Griffey, Dunn, Freel and others might have harbored a little jealousy over Hamilton's success.
Florida White Sox
07-06-2008, 11:59 AM
There's a certain "comfort" level of complacency that sets in with the veterans on a perennial second-division team. It's not surprising that Griffey, Dunn, Freel and others might have harbored a little jealousy over Hamilton's success.

I agree. Then those guys complaining should pick their game up a bit and play to their level. Griffey Jr. and Dunn especially.
icee82
07-13-2008, 06:43 PM
I hope and pray that Walt Jocketty does the right thing and implodes this team. Dunn, Griffey, Jr., Freel, and some others needs a ticket out of town. I want them to move them out before the infect Votto, Bailey, Volquez, and company.
Steve Mac
07-13-2008, 06:59 PM
To FL Sox: Watchoo got against Manny (in your sig)? He adds a little needed "flavor" the the game, IMHO.
Florida White Sox
07-13-2008, 09:19 PM
To FL Sox: Watchoo got against Manny (in your sig)? He adds a little needed "flavor" the the game, IMHO.

Habaneros add flavor too. But too much of anything is not good.

Ramirez is too much of everything.