Terry Collins

We were sitting at the bar, and this guy walks over, and he said, Mr. Collins, if you have a minute, I have a guy over here who's dying to meet you.

And he comes over, and the first thing out of his mouth is, I'm a Yankee fan, but I just wanted to –

because i've seen this video of you i said well i'm not going to go into a rant here in the in you know at the golf course so but that's what it's that's what it's made and it's you know and it you know what it is what it is i move on i try to be as good as i can about it but uh

Yeah, I apologize if I offended you by any sense of the imagination with some of the language I used.

But, you know, I'm an intense guy.

I'm an intense guy, and I take the game seriously, and I love my players to death.

And so, yeah, I got a little carried away that night.

Well, first of all, I love Chase Utley because he played the game the right way.

Absolutely.

He played hard.

He ran the bases hard.

He did everything it took to be a great player.

I thought his slide was illegal.

I thought his slide was unnecessary.

Due to the entire play, if you replay the play, there was no way we were going to be able to make a double play.

But not to hit the dirt, not to –

to go into him above ground, you're saying, I'm going to hurt this guy.

And he did.

As a matter of fact, Ruben Tejada never was the same.

So I don't hold any disregard because I've always thought he was a great player.