"Jose Reyes, come to the ballpark and see him not run"

Thank god we don't have Fran Healy around anymore, because chances are we'd have to hear him say something like this, after Jose gets his ass benched for forgeting to run out a foul-fair nubber last night in Houston. He couldn't get out of the gate. Thus "Reyes-Gate."

But we do get to hear Jose say some stuff, some stuff that makes us wonder whether he is taking responsibility or whether that athlete-third-person-projection thing is twisting his English expressions.

“I think the ball would be foul, but you still have to run.  It was my fault there, so…but I think it would happen to anybody.  So, hopefully it doesn’t happen to me next time…

“He don’t say nothing to me, I saw Willie from the dugout, he said, ‘come on out,’ and it’s alright…He had to do whatever he had to do, because he’s the boss.  I run everytime, if I don’t run one time it’s not gonna look good, because every people here expect me to run hard on every ball.  So, it was my fault there…

“I just kind of feel bad for me there, because I don’t wanna be out of the game, because when I’m in the game I can put this team in a position to win the game.