I have no idea how I missed this, but Kevin Kernan of the New York Post notes today that Jose Reyes put a song and music video out over the summer in which, according to Kernan anyway, Reyes’ decision to do the Mets no favors in free agency was made clear:
In his song and video “No Hay Amigo’’ that was released in July, Reyes sings the following powerful words:
“There are no friends. A friend is a dollar in my pocket. As soon as you turn your back your friends want to stab you in the back. A real friend is a glass full of water in the desert to quench your thirst. … Where were you when I used to practice without any food to eat or when I used to spend a week with the same T-shirt? There are no friends. My friends are my mother and my father, the ones who struggled with me to make me who I am.’’
The Mets are no longer Reyes’ friends.
Whatever. Could be just that the concept of “No Hay Amigo” is way more stark and badass for the purposes of a popular song than “I will weigh all of the offers, determine what’s best for my professional future and take into account the good times I had in and loyalty I hold for the Mets organization as I embark on free agency.” Even with the best flow, that would be a hard concept to get across in a song.
Here’s the video (Holy Auto-Tune, Batman!). No matter what you can or can’t take from it with respect to Reyes’ free agency, it’s pretty fantastic all the same. And by “fantastic,” I mean “perhaps the worst song I’ve heard in two years.”
