Beltran booed in return to Houston HOUSTON — Carlos Beltran carried the Houston Astros to within a game of the World Series last fall. But last night the crowd at Minute Maid Park treated him like he had come to repossess their trailers. Beltran was booed, long and loud. The crowd of 43,552 even booed when he caught fly balls in center field. Apparently he had some nerve taking $119 million from the Mets. "I wasn't surprised," Beltran said after the Mets were beaten 3-2. "I was expecting what happened. ... It didn't hurt me. I tried to block it." The ferocity of the crowd never ceased. Beltran said he was cursed while he was in the field and at the plate. "I'm not going to say what they were saying," he said. "You can imagine." Beltran was 0 for 4 but said the crowd wasn't the cause of that. "I don't care. Being honest I don't care," he said. "They can boo me. They can do whatever they want." "BELTRAN $UCK$" T-shirts were on sale outside the park and were moving fast, according to the vendors. "If they're going to do good things with that money I'll help them make more shirts," Beltran said. Change at first: Doug Mientkiewicz's opportunity to establish himself as the regular first baseman is fading away. The Astros had right-hander Ezequiel Astacio on the mound last night but Marlon Anderson was at first base, not Mientkiewicz. Anderson, who homered twice against the Rockies on Wednesday, was 0 for 4, leaving four men on base.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Can you imagine if the situation had been reversed and Beltran left the MEts to come to the Stros what sort of greeting he would get at Shea? Would some NYC journalists make some glib dumb@ss comment about Mets fans booing, or doing far worse, to Beltran like he had stolen their cannoli, knishes, bagels or some other stupid NYC stereotype... This jerk is making it out like Houstonians are the most rude classless backward fans when anyone who has been at Shea know that is anything but the case.
Beltran played us like a fiddle and left us with nothing. We didn't even try to retain Kent because we we thought we were going to resign him. If he would have left without playing games, the boos wouldn't have been anywhere near as loud.
I don't get it. Maybe he just wanted to play in New York. Maybe he likes New York better than Houston. Maybe he felt more comfortable with a fellow latino in General Manager Omar Minaya than he did with Drayton McLane. He signed where he wanted to play, just appreciate that the time he was an Astro. You can't assume someone is going to re-sign just because you want them to.
pft. Sounds like someone is bitter. Yes you lost NY! Oh, by the way.....I recall hearing booes aimed at Beltran earlier this week...IN NY!!!!
That's fine if he wanted to go to New York, just don't screw the Astros over in the process. Like many have said before, he strung us along so it would drive up the price NY would have to pay. By him using us we didn't have a chance to go after any other free agents. Suck it Beltraitor!
Yeah everyone in the crowd lives in trailers, had on cowboy hats and boots, and listens to country western music What a jerk.
I don't get not getting it. Like Shady said, if he wanted to go to NY for more money, fine. Just show some class and be straight with us. Give us the same courtesy we gave you. Let us do what we need to do to replace you in the offseason. That's not what he did. He waited until (literally) the last minute to drop the bombshell. He used us. Look at Randy Johnson. Does anyone here have any ill will towards him for signing with Arizona? No. If I remember right, he even got a standing O the first time he came back to Houston. It's because he did it the right way. Beltrash and his fat oaf of an agent should take a lesson in class from RJ.
We can all sit in our trailers and watch the Astros in the playoffs this year... and the Mets fans can watch the work on their golf strokes during the playoffs this year.
