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In professional sports – or at any level of any sport, really – you don’t want to be compared to a baby. If that happens, you probably aren’t being flattered. You don’t want to be accused of babying anything, or of being babied. You don’t want to be caught watching "Three Men and a Baby." You don’t want anyone to overhear you singing "Baby I’m-a Want You." <\/p>\n
Baby = not good. <\/p>\n
So the recent comments made to the New York Post<\/a> by an unnamed member of the Mets could potentially lead to friction:<\/p>\n On a day [Jose] Reyes appeared in a minor league exhibition game against the Reyes, of course, only appeared in 36 games last season due to hamstring troubles, and he was literally confined to a couch for two weeks this spring because of the thyroid issue. He’s expected to hit lead-off for the Mets, whenever they allow him to do something more than participate in minor league games at half-speed. <\/a><\/p>\n As the unidentified player told the Post’s Mike Puma, "You can get hurt as easily playing [a minor league exhibition] as playing on opening day."<\/p>\n There’s a massive<\/em> difference in talent between Reyes and his understudy, Alex Cora<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> so it’s easy to understand the frustration expressed by the mystery Met. New York is substantially more dangerous (and entertaining) with Reyes on the field. Of course he’s also a speed-dependent player, so if there’s any ongoing reason to be concerned about his hamstrings, perhaps he should be babied just a little. Out of respect to Reyes, however, we should consider using a different term. <\/p>\n "Indulged?" <\/p>\n "Mollycoddled?" <\/p>\n "Protected-as-if-he-were-a-$9-million-asset?" <\/p>\n Suggestions are encouraged, as are your projections for Reyes’ 2010 season… <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via US Presswire<\/em><\/p>\n \nOther popular stories on Yahoo! Sports:<\/strong> In professional sports – or at any level of any sport, really – you don’t want to be compared to a baby. If that happens, you probably aren’t being flattered. You don’t want to be accused of babying anything, or of being babied. You don’t want to be caught watching "Three Men and a Baby." […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nCardinals – his most extensive action since returning last Wednesday from an overactive thyroid – one Mets player told The Post there is a prevailing feeling in the clubhouse that the shortstop is being “babied” because the organization fears a potential public relations hit should the shortstop reinjure his hamstring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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