Crap, the link says the audio isn't available...that's a shame...because this sounds like it could be hilarious.

wow, he was pissed

worse than dennis green last year

Fixed. Try it again. Worked for me.

No harm, no foul.  I think it's kind of funny, even though the reporter didn't do anything.  But it sparked the team, we scored 14 runs today threw 7 innings.

LMAO!!! That's classic!

I haven't heard the audio yet but wouldn't it have been funny if he screamed after that, "NEXT QUESTION!!!"

Lmao... It was a stupid question though.

looks like the wife beater's anger management classes didnt take...
truly one of the worst and most classless men in the game and a very over rated pitcher....

Coming from a guy who goes to the ball park to root on Jason Giambi.

Jason has never hit his wife

Oh, and another thing, your telling me Myers goes off on one reporter and he's the most classless?  What about Kenny Rogers, or Barry Bonds.  Rogers actually physically touched a reported, and Bonds is an ass to reporters day in and out.  But noo he's got more class than Myers.

How much time did you put into the Myers story.  I bet your one of the thousands of people who listened to ESPN and believed hey this guy smacked his wife around after drinking a few beers.  Well maybe you oughta get the real story next time.  Don't believe everything you hear, especially from the media. 

You're seriously defending a guy like Brett Myers. While he's unlikely the least classiest guy in sports, he's definitely a dbag. There's no defending that.

Jason never pulled crap like the stuff Myers does.
Myers is a verbally and physically abusive man who has abused his wife physically and verbally and these cases are documented and were criminally prosecuted.
He was then entered into court ordered anger management training that didn't appear to work.
He now regularly verbally abusers and physically threatens members of the media if they disagree with him.
Jason has never done things like this and has almost always been kind and generous with the fans and the media --- which is why some fans continue to support him.

There is when you don't have the whole story.  He didn't assult his wife, why do you think the charges randomly got dropped.  A Boston fan (I can't find the link) reported on the Phils fourms a few months ago that he was at the bar that Myers was at, and his wife was drunk completely.  She was hitting him and ranting around, which is normal drunk behavior, and she got way out of hand.  Now I can speculate or believe everything out of here, but your telling me the media would never blow anything out of proportion.  Also why the hell would the charges randomly get dropped. 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14352520/

This is what all Phillies fans say when they are confronted with facts that are not positive about the Myers.
You don't live in Philly so you don't understand and he never did anything wrong.
It's all the media.
If that's the fairy tail world that we live in --- then Jason Giambi never took steroids.
It's the media.
He didn't do it.
It's the media.
Why do you try and tear down Giambi when it was obviously the media that took steroids just like it was the media that hit Myer's wife.
I mean, he obviously didn't hit his wife because he said so, right?
And because his wife said so, right?
Ever had a family member who got abused by the boyfriend or their husband.
They almost ALWAYS say he didn't do it and they almost always defend the creep.

the charges would get dropped, perhaps, because she would swear it never happened and beg and plead for nothing to happen to him because he's a good man and a great husband and he never raised a hand to her...
And because if she didnt say that he'd beat her again ...

LOL thats amazing that you would even waste your time posting that.  Steroids have tests that can be taken to prove someone took them.  No such thing to prove that Myers did anything.  So if Myers hit his wife.  It's over.  Many people have done it.  It's not right, thats sure as hell, but than either every other person in the world who hits there wives is just as class-less or he isn't the least classiest person.  Also, about this reporter thing.  What did Myers do?  He was talking to a reporter who asked a really dumb question.  Two fly-balls?  I mean the ball wasn't carrying way out of the park, so it must have been obvious that they weren't going to be caught.  Not to mention one of the homers went about 10 rows up. 

Yeah because if he hit her, and she was forced to divorce him, she wouldn't get any money.  So obviously she either realllllllllllllly loved him, and wanted to stay with him no matter how many times he hit her, or it never happened, and she had not enough evidence to get his money, kids, home etc.  We have no clue who the witnesses were.  They could have been her friends, Myers enemy, or a guy 1000 ft. away from what happened. 

see...?
It's in the very article that you provided ...

"An abuse charge against Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers was dismissed Thursday after his wife said she did not want her husband prosecuted for hitting her in the face during an argument near Fenway Park.

Judge Raymond Dougan acknowledged that Myers struck his wife June 23, yet dismissed the charge over the objection of prosecutors because Kim Myers agreed to an affidavit showing she did not want the charge pursued."

then she says this lame excuse in the article you provided :

 

"“He’s a loving father, he’s a loving husband. This is not something that happens on a daily basis,” she said. “Or ever.”

It doesn't happen ever?
Then why even say the first part about it not happening on a daily basis and then saying not ever ?
Freudian slip?

and in the same article...

"Authorities say the two were arguing when Brett Myers hit his wife. One witness told investigators he pulled her hair."

I guess the witnesses and the authorities are just making it up to make Myers look bad, huh?

See my last point, we don't know who the witness is.  Don't you think a bar outside of Boston would have a few more witnesses than were interviewed?

Myers enemy?
That's weak.
I guess you haven't had a mother or a sister who's been in a abusive relationship or lived in any kind of fear.
It's not about money for a lot of women.
So the witnesses, the authorities, and the 911 callers were all Myer's enemies?
Sorry to disappoint you --- but outside Philly I doubt too many people could pick Myers out of a group of people.
He's just not that famous and people just don't care.
If it was somebody like Alex Rodriguez in Boston getting arrested or Manny Ramirez in New York I might see something like that because they would be hugely recognizable and could be hated.
But people in Boston don't care about Bret Myers.

and for the record I don't like Myers or Bonds or Rogers.
They're all in the same boat.
You can't say Myers is a saint because these other guys are assholes.
They're just fellow assholes.

what did he do?
I man who was arrested for physically abusing his wife and undertook anger management said this to a reporter:

"I’ll tell you what, dude, I’ll knock you mutherf***ing out!"

If I was the reporter I would have filed a complaint with the police for being physically threatened.

No, I haven't because my father is a smart man and knows not to do that, and my sisters 12.  But when your dating a million dollar making athlete, and you have the chance to get money out of a divorce or lawsuit, your telling me there just going to walk away from it.  I mean you can't pin all of this on Myers, we have no clue what his wife is like.  We don't see her everyday, or hear stories about her.  But a few stories say she was drunk, which coming out of a bar, okay I could see.  But you have to be repsonsible for your actions, drunk or not.  And if she was acting out in public then it would have to be attended to. 

So tempers flare like this everyday.  Reporters probably get to close than they should (figure of speech, not too close as in touching the player), and thats known.  The media will do whatever they can to get attention towards themselves.  Many players do things like this, and have said things like this, but don't get called the least classiest person.

my father never hit my mother ever if that's what you were digging at and he's also a smart man ...

But then you said :

"But you have to be repsonsible for your actions, drunk or not.  And if she was acting out in public then it would have to be attended to. "

You mean it would have to be attended to by a good smack in the face --- I take it ?

if any other player said this I'd call them classless too.
Regardless of what team that they played for.
There is a string of agressive behaviour from Myers over the past few years and it's pretty obvious that he has a anger problem and he needs to really learn how to interact with people.
He's far from the only one --- but it doesnt get any better when his family, the organization, and all the fans just turn a blind eye and act like he doesn't do anything wrong...

No I wasn't digging at anything.  I don't talk about peoples families here on faniq.  Thanks anyway.

You don't know, cuz I'd put money on it that you weren't outside that bar in Boston.  And you didn't see what happened.  And neither did many people, and like I said earlier, we don't know who the witnesses were.  So we don't know how that effects their story.

So bonds and Rogers are classless too?

So when he hit his wife....
That wasn't his fault, it was the media's fault or her fault or maybe his "enemies" fault...
and now this is the reporters fault...
did you follow the questions?
Myers thought the home runs he gave up were pop ups...
 Which sounds fairly insane anyway...
Like if somebody asked me, if I was a pitcher, about the pitch selection on a pitch that I threw and I said that it wasn't really a home run --- it was a pop up !
And then after he said that then the reporter asks him if he thought they were both pop ups and the reporter honestly says yes and so then Myers responds by cursing at him and calls him names...
Does that sound like rational behavior to you?
To me it sounds borderline psychotic...

pretty much. that's what I said. I like Rogers a little more because this seemed a tad more isolated of an event...
But Bonds is definately a piece of work...
Just like in life you have good guys and bad guys.
Bonds and Myers are two of the bad apples for the most part...

You've never watched a game at CBP than, anything can go, especially to LF.  And the reporter didn't say yes.  He said I thought the first one was gone.  Which is a difference of opinion.  If you tell a pitcher, who just lost you the game, the batter crushed your pitch, rather than barely hitting it out.  Any pitcher will get defensive. 

Well I hate to argue and run, but I have to go.
I'm sorry if I got irritated and for any reason this seemed like I was attacking you personally because we don't agree.
I have nothing against you and wasn't trying to piss you off personally.
I just think that Myers is not a good person (IMHO) and think he did beat his wife and that this latest little tirade was just sad.
Just my opinion here.
I'm sure a lot of people might disagree.

but Myers had the chance to hit the reporter and he didn't.  Rogers didn't have a confrontation or anything before the situation, just was being filmed, and flung the camera at the cameraman, which isn't such a light object either. 

He didn't say "yes" --- he said that he thought it was gone.

Myers said the "crushed it" line.

The reporter never said that...

He just said he thought it was gone.

If Myers didnt like the choice of words as far as "crushing it" went --- then he shouldn't have said it.

Myers said that.

Not the reporter.

Sam Carchidi: “You thought they both were pop ups?”

Brett Myers: “Yeah, didn’t you? You think they crushed ‘em?”

SC: “The first one I thought was out, the second one no.”

BM: “Yeah, cause you’re a retard, you don’t know s**t about f***in’ baseball. You’re filling in for somebody.

You're right about that.
He was a jerk.
Can't defend it.

No matter how it was said, the reporter agreed.  If he said, you think he massacred the ball, its still the same situation.  The pitcher doesn't wanna hear that, especially in a ballpark, which gives up way to many home runs, and doesn't go un-noticed. 

I'm done, chatting now.  It was nice having an "argument" per-say with you, without any personal attacks or anything else. 

alright first off brett myers is no saint by any means

2nd off, what he said crossed the line a little bit but i think he pushed it on purpose because of the way the phillies are playing lately..ie, things go wrong, manager goes off in argument etc. i honestly believe a lot of his "anger was towards that".

thirdly, brett myers wife is a crazy bitch (cue the buckcherry music). shes a drama queen in all aspects of the word. shes one that likes to party, drink etc. ive heard stories from people in philly who were at bars that many of the philly team's players go to who have seen guys there with their families. ive heard from many people who said they have seen myers' wife go off on him in the bars when he tells her hes not going to get her another beer. from the stories ive heard, shes a lazy worthless piece of trash that makes her husband do everything for her, and if she doesnt get her way she goes off...

...which leads me to the boston "wifebeater" story. this is all from one of my parents friends who live in the same neighborhood as myers and gets to talk/meet with a lot of the eagles and phillies players. and obviously talks to the myers family once in a while.

myers and his wife were bar hopping in boston thursday night/friday morning..they go into one bar, get a beer, walk around town, see another bar, get another beer so on and so forth. myers cuts the line as usual, says i need to get back to the hotel, gotta pitch in a couple days (i believe he was supposed to pitch one of the boston games before he got benched but i may be 100% wrong) and his wife went off on him because she didnt want to go back to the room and stop drinking yet. she wined and moaned, and fell to the ground trying to make a scene.

myers, wanting to prevent a scene (boy did that backfire), grabbed her by her hair as she went down to try to pull her back up and head back to the room. now bretts a big guy, 6'4'', so its pretty easy for anyone from a distance (which many of the witnesses who talked on the sports shows were from a distance) to think hes physically abusing her, and not be able to hear her whine and moan about having to go back to the room.

theres your story, take it or leave it..let me just end it on this note. dont always rely on ESPN/sportscenter for your off the field news, they just want ratings and will do whatever they can for it..sportscenter = the sports worlds entertainment tonight

Whoa... posting in an epic thread....

Thumbs up for the length.

That's what she said.



(Sorry, I just felt like I needed to post in what might be one of the more ridiculous threads we've had).

Lol, and you get a thumbs up for making my laugh at 1:15 am on a Monday.

I didnt find it ridiculous. Especially compared to 70% of the stuff out there.

Yes that was an awesome moment sports but it will never top the Jim Everett -VS- Jim Rome fight. Now thats a classic.