I’m speechless? Melvin, seriously?

While I think that Mora is telling the truth in that he has battled through injuries and done well in the past, he has looked pretty done for a few years now.

Since when did baseball become a charity? You put the best players on the field, period. Sorry, Mora…..

you can have a sense of entitlement when you can back it up w/ something, but melvin is toast. he is an adequate fielder at best, but even that may be charitable.

i thought he did that a long time ago…….

“You don’t make the All Star team for nothing.”

Play like you did in 2005, Melvin, and you’d be out there every day.

Mora said that a conversation during Saturday’s game with Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz further fueled his ire.

“He told me something like, ‘Why are you hitting seventh? I’ve never seen you hitting there,’” Mora said. He said something like, ‘You know what, I think I have the best manager in the world because he trusts his veterans.’ I said, ‘yeah, but Terry Francona has been in the league a long time.’ My opinion about this [situation] is it’s ‘what have you done for me lately.’"

Didn’t Terry SIT Ortiz earlier this year????

I got 9 year, 9 year that was about it.

That Mora continues to pick up his paycheck every week

Why on freakin’ Earth would you say “Don’t compare me with John Smoltz, Josh Beckett, Jon Lester.” They are pitchers, you are not. They play for PHN, you do not. That is all.

Is that Wigs is also a 2nd half guy.

At this point the press knows that they can wave a microphone out of him and be he’ll piss and moan about lack of respect for his veteran status, guaranteed. I love watching him play third but I cringe when he gets interviewed.

Melvin Mora if he were Captain of the Titanic
“Look I didn’t make all those people get on the boat, and I certainly didn’t put that iceberg there either. So stop blaming me.”

Melvin Mora if he were Bagdad Bob
“Nonsense there are no foreign troops here. Everything is going to be just fine. Relax.”

Melvin Mora on Christmas decorating
“Hey it’s my yard I can put up the lights in February it won’t bother anyone of my neighbors.”

I wish his family well. In my heart I know he is a good, kind person. He was the only active Oriole that attended Elrod Hendricks funeral. He runs numerous baseball clinics in and around Baltimore and gives of himself for charitable local causes.

But all the above does not equate to playing time when you are not producing. Melvin has not produced the last few years now. The last think any ball player sees is the end of their career. They think they can do it when they can’t.

We will have found memories of Melvin and he still has an amazing glove. Somebody may want a pinch hitter off the bench in the NL. I hope he pursues that.