Mets fans will ALWAYS hate Chase Utley for that slide

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00:00Mine is in regards to the slide.

00:03Yeah.

00:03I'll keep it civil.

00:05Why'd you do it?

00:06Do you have any regret about it?

00:08And have you ever apologized to Rubitana?

00:12Your first question was, why did I do it?

00:14Why'd you do it?

00:15Why did I do what?

00:17It was such a blindside.

00:20Can you blindside?

00:21As a veteran, you knew you were just going in to f*** him up.

00:25That's absolutely incorrect.

00:28Keep it civil.

00:28Keeping it civil.

00:30Listen, I get it.

00:31I understand your frustration as a Mets fan, and I get it.

00:35But there was zero intention to f*** anybody up on that play.

00:40As I mentioned before, I grew up watching 80s, 90s baseball, hard-nosed slides.

00:46And at that point, I don't know how many years I had in the big leagues,

00:50but 10, 12, 13 years at that point.

00:54And I've always gone in hard.

00:56And that was no different.

00:59Obviously, the outcome was different than other slides that I've had.

01:03I didn't anticipate actually hitting him nearly as hard as I did.

01:06I was actually anticipating him jumping up in the air because the way it all kind of unfolded,

01:12and as you can imagine, it's happening pretty quick.

01:13So as he took the feed, I'm thinking, okay, he's going to hit the bag, get up off his feet in the air, and try to throw it.

01:22So me, I'm trying to slide a little bit with my body higher so I can clip a leg and get his throw off.

01:29But instead, he spun, which I was definitely not anticipating.

01:34And, yeah, looking back on it, I didn't feel good about it.

01:37I actually felt terrible about it.

01:40I had no intention of hurting him whatsoever, and I attempted to apologize to him.

01:46He wanted no part of it, which, again, I understand.

01:49So, yeah, if I could go back in time and knowing the outcome that happened, of course, I would have done it differently

01:56because I would have realized he's not going to jump.

01:58He's going to spin, and I could have disrupted his throw differently.