Sports of The Times: Taking a Bow Won’t Stop Fans From Booing

 
Abusive fans need to be reeled back in, and Carlos Delgado did a neat bit of reeling Sunday night when he refused to indulge fans request for a curtain call. [link]

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To: Media and Mets fans everywhere Subject: Stop whining

Dear all media outlets and Mets bloggers, commenters, and fans, Please, for the love of everything holy, please stop making a story out of this Carlos Delgado curtain call snub. This is the most inane story about a complete non-story. Why does it matter if he took a curtain call or not? He didn't feel it was right, and that's that.
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