Delgado's explanation of the curtain call snub

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No Curtain Calls For You!
Published 4/27/2008 by JAMMQ at The Mets Are Better Than Sex
... Delgado's diss of the fans(who were demanding a curtain call after Delgado's 2nd homerun of the game) is explained(kind of) by David Lennon in Newsday's Mets blog: ...

Fire in the belly.....No curtain call is a good sign
Published 4/27/2008 by Ed Ryan at Mets Fever
... Delgado says he has only taken two curtain calls in his life, when he hit four in one game several years ago and after he hit his 400th career home run. He knew the fans were calling for one today, but he didn't feel it was the right spot. source Newday ...

It's Not Curtains for Delgado (yet)
Published 4/27/2008 by Itsmetsforme at It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations
... Today Carlost came back with a vengeance and a couple of HRs, and getting all Beltrany, he didn't feel like celebrating with the ingrates in the peanut gallery. I, of course, have stood by Carlos with the same integrity that he refuses to stand for the national anthem. ...

Aftermath: Game #24 - Mets vs Braves
Published 4/28/2008 by Eric Simon at Amazin' Avenue: Front Page Posts
... decision for a solid ten minutes, and ultimately Cohen came to the following salient conclusion: Fans want players to be as animated and emotional as they are. When the Mets lose, fans expect the players to be pissed off, frustrated and otherwise upset. Similarly, when a player like Delgado busts out of a long slump, fans celebrate the relief and excitement of the event and they want the player -- in this case Delgado -- to celebrate along with them. Delgado took a pass, saying after the game that he had only taken two previous curtain calls: when he hit four homeruns with the ...

I told you I was good luck
Published 4/28/2008 by joe at Betty's No Good Clothes Shop And Pancake House
... two-thirds innings, but the bullpen was solid (Jorge Sosa didn't pitch and Aaron Heilman only gave up one run in one inning of work). And while thirteen runs in three games is hardly an offensive explosion, the bats did show signs of life. David Wright broke out of a five-game hitless streak with a pair of singles on Saturday. Raul Casanova had four hits in two games including his first home run of the season. And Carlos Delgado smacked a pair of long balls on Sunday, thus igniting the stupidest controversy of the day . The Mets have now scored 113 runs in 24 games, 4.71 per ...

Three The Hard Way
Published 4/28/2008 by Metstradamus at The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus
... But Delgado did not want to take a curtain call. Apparently the Shea crowd has become the husband that stayed out carousing all night, and then coming home to his wife (Delgado) and did nothing to berate her and call her things like "fat" and "mean" and "lousy in bed" and "can't hit a curve ball" for weeks. Then all of a sudden the husband tries to make it up to her by buying her flowers, but the wife is still mad so she doesn't reciprocate by baking those Toll House cookies he likes. So Delgado and the fans have a strained relationship right now. ...

Let's See Pedro Fix a Hard Drive
Published 4/29/2008 by Emma at Eephus Pitch
... in taking curtain calls after relatively insignificant home runs, out of "respect for the game"? Or do you think he's just pissed at the fans for mercilessly booing him all season? Either way, he may have a point. But I personally feel that any time you do your job so well that 50,000-odd people applaud, chant your name, and beg you to take a bow, you should pretty much go with it, you know? How often do you get the chance? Of course, I speak as someone who, if I'm extremely successful in my field, MIGHT hope to one day get 20 people in folding chairs -- half of them ...