ryno4ever
Mar 1st 2008, 1:15 am
I really enjoyed watching him play.... he was a gamer.
"I had planned on retiring at the end of this contract," the 35-year-old Green said yesterday in a phone conversation. "If something where I could live at home popped up, then I would have had to take that under consideration. But I still don't know what I would have done."
That decision never really had to be made. The affable Green, a former member of the 30-30 club who once smashed four homers in one game, wrapped up his tenure with the Mets last season. He said yesterday that a bunch of teams then showed interest in him, but he indicated that he simply wasn't willing to be that far from his California home.
"There was some real solid interest from maybe six or seven teams," he said. "A lot of teams were pretty far across the country."
Green, who is building his dream house in Irvine with his family (wife Lindsay and daughters Presley and Chandler), added, "I wanted to stay here with my family. Not travel around the country anymore. I enjoyed playing a lot. I enjoyed New York. But for me, it was time to be home."
His most memorable game was May 23, 2002, when he had a single, a double, four homers and seven RBI in six at-bats. That was part of an amazing seven-game stretch when he went 17 for 32 with 10 homers.
"I had planned on retiring at the end of this contract," the 35-year-old Green said yesterday in a phone conversation. "If something where I could live at home popped up, then I would have had to take that under consideration. But I still don't know what I would have done."
That decision never really had to be made. The affable Green, a former member of the 30-30 club who once smashed four homers in one game, wrapped up his tenure with the Mets last season. He said yesterday that a bunch of teams then showed interest in him, but he indicated that he simply wasn't willing to be that far from his California home.
"There was some real solid interest from maybe six or seven teams," he said. "A lot of teams were pretty far across the country."
Green, who is building his dream house in Irvine with his family (wife Lindsay and daughters Presley and Chandler), added, "I wanted to stay here with my family. Not travel around the country anymore. I enjoyed playing a lot. I enjoyed New York. But for me, it was time to be home."
His most memorable game was May 23, 2002, when he had a single, a double, four homers and seven RBI in six at-bats. That was part of an amazing seven-game stretch when he went 17 for 32 with 10 homers.