Utley Still a Phillie

Evidently you can take Chase Utley out of Phillie but you can't take the Phillie out of Chase Utley. Utley's slide started closer to Conforto than it did to the second base bag. How is someone called safe when he didn't even touch the bag? Utley ran off the field quicker than he ran to second. Hearing Cuddyer and Wright speak about it was great, they have fire in their voice. David Wright stared into the Dodgers dugout while Chase had closed his eyes with a headache. The person that seemed the most emotional on the team was Kelly Johnson. I loved hearing him speak. He wanted something to be done. The rules are in place to protect the players. The guy on the field with the most padding, catcher, has a rule in place for his protection. Why not the other players on the field? Like a rule that states you can't dropkick a player while heading into second base. Hit the dirt, THEN the player, not the other way around. Utley should definitely be fined and probably suspended as well but we'll see what the league decides to do. This is were Jonny Gomes would have really come in handy, Utley wouldn't have made it back to the dugout.

This injury will hurt the Met defense a little bit and the Met bench even more. Now the Mets don't have a potent Flores bat even though I think Flores's bat gets better the more reps he gets while Tejada's bat is better off the bench. Flores has been waiting for this moment probably since joining the Mets at 16 when the Mets looked like they were contenders, but now that Flores is on the team, he is in the playoffs and will be starting game three.

This will be fun to see in the next couple of days though. The Mets seem to be rallying around Tejada's injury. When things like this happen, it seems to bring a team even closer than they are. Matt Harvey loves the spotlight, well it's on him now. Game three is a pivotal game. There are very few stages bigger than the one he will be standing on at Citi Field on Monday. Maybe none as big with the controversy at hand. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. With all the headache that Harvey has caused, he could put it all behind him with one simple game, maybe even one simple pitch. Lets see what happens come game time.

What do you think will happen on Monday? Do you think Utley will be suspended and fined?

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Lets go Mets!