Buzz: Pat Burrell rejected Two-Year Offer
According to the Philadelphia Daily News, Pat Burrell turned down a two-year, $22 million offer to remain with the Phillies.
Burrell is eligible to be a free agent this off-season.
…hat tip to Hot Foot for the link…
Last December, I wrote the following on MetsBlog.com:
…a friend of MetsBlog, who i trust, recently bumped in to Phillies OF Pat Burrell while at dinner in Arizona…her table was introduced to him as a group of Mets fans…he was much nicer than she expected he would be…however, according to burrell, he would be open to playing for the Mets when they enter Citi Field in 2009…upon hearing this news, our friend stopped talking and refused to shake his hand as he walked away…
…i don’t blame her, though i am sure he said this in an effort to get a rise out of people he knows must despise him…
…the thing is, the Mets should consider signing burrell to a ten-year contract, while sticking him in the stands and forcing him to sell foam fingers…seriously, i don’t want him on the Mets, but i also don’t want him facing the Mets…
In his eight-year career, Burrell has 253 home runs, of which 16 percent are against the Mets, as are 104 of his 827 RBI.
That said, he drove in just two runs against the Mets in 2008.
