Quoted: Keith Hernandez

At the trade deadline in 1983, the St. Louis Cardinals traded Keith Hernandez to the New York Mets.

“I can’t really blame (Whitey) Herzog for trading me. But to the Mets? That’s another matter. At the time, it was an insult. In 1983, it wasn’t easy being the Mets. You can read a losing team a mile away—on the field, in the dugout, everywhere. The players are listless; they care about what’s happening (blood tells), but they’re either numbed into lethargy or, as a kind of defense mechanism, pretend they don’t care. That was the Met team—expecting to lose. The Mets deserved and received no respect.” - Keith Hernandez