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Contradicting himself by saying “This isn’t about credit score,” former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine complained Wednesday that the New York Yankees obtained an excessive amount of credit score in the wake of the sept. 11 assaults on the city that each teams share.
Talking to WFAN radio on the attacks’ twelfth anniversary, Valentine understandably was emotional in detailing events as he remembered them in the days after the World Trade Center was destroyed, the United States was shaken and Major League Baseball season was placed on pause. After giving some touching remarks about these horrible and awkward times, Valentine took a left turn and slapped down the Yankees. And a few of Valentine’s info seem out of whack as they pertain to how sept. 11 should be remembered. Via CBS in New York:
“Let it’s mentioned that during the time from sept. 11 to 9/21, the Yankees have been (not around),” Valentine advised Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts on Wednesday. “You couldn’t find a Yankee on the streets of New York Metropolis. You couldn’t discover a Yankee down at Floor Zero, speaking to the blokes who had been working 24/7.”
He added: “A lot of them didn’t live right here, and so it wasn’t their fault. And lots of of them did not partake in all that, so there was a few of that jealousy going around. Like, ‘Why are we so tired? Why are we wasted? Why have we been to the funerals and the firehouses, and the Yankees are getting all of the credit for bringing baseball back?’ And I stated ‘This isn’t about credit, guys. That is about doing the right thing.’”
Bernie Williams visits with survivors at St. Vincent’s Hospital on Sept. 15, 2011 (AP) Oh, really? Has Valentine lost his thoughts? Now that he’s the director of athletics at Sacred Coronary heart University in Fairfield, Conn., he appears to be getting foggy within the head.
As the very subsequent paragraph of the CBS publish says, “Members of the Yankees, together with Bernie Williams, Derek Jeter and manager Joe Torre, visited rescue staging areas on the Jacob Javits Middle, the Armory and St. Vincent’s Hospital 5 days after the assaults.”
Update: Yankees president Randy Levine called Valentine’s comments “sad.”
It’s true that most of the public’s post-sep 11 reminiscences, as they relate to baseball, involve the Yankees. Largely, that’s because they performed in the World Sequence.
But how can Valentine suppose we didn’t know, or forgot, how the Mets lent a hand at Shea Stadium, which was used as a staging area for rescue, cleanup and rebuilding efforts. Or how the gamers, led by Robin Ventura, Valentine also recalled, began sporting NYPD and FDNY caps? Or how the Mike Piazza home run sport at Shea, reintroduced MLB in New York when so many individuals needed one thing else to worry about?
Who — as MLB remembers sept. 11 at ballgames throughout the nation Wednesday — who might overlook in regards to the Mets in September 2001?
People keep in mind what the Mets did, Bobby. We additionally remember what the Yankees did. Not that it is about credit score.
Bobby Valentine badmouths Yankees on 9/11 anniversary
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