I think that the meeting yesterday was great. I liked it. It was different than what we used to have in the past. But that’s him. He has passion, he has energy, he’s going to pick and talk the way he feels about the team, about the players. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I think sometimes you need a meeting like that to wake everyone up.

– Carlos Beltran.

why do you need a meeting like that to wakeup? you should be motovaited by being a big league player.beltran is a joke.

– Glen Volz.

Ah, yes. Sometimes I get so caught up in ironically blaming Carlos Beltran for stuff that I lose sight of the weird and twisted ways in which people unironically blame Carlos Beltran for stuff.

I happened to be standing in the media scrum around Beltran when he said what he did about the team meeting, and I actually did come away from it thinking it sounded like Beltran legitimately likes Terry Collins and his methods and wasn’t just paying lip service to the reporter’s question. But a reporter did ask Beltran what he thought of the team meeting, and Beltran answered the question professionally. Imagine the fallout if Beltran had been curt or suggested the team didn’t need the meeting for motivation.

(On an unrelated note, Beltran addressed the media while wearing one of the most amazing shirts I’ve ever seen in my life. I would have snapped a picture if I were myself less professional. It was an incredibly loud short-sleeved button-down featuring various shades of turquoise, orange, yellow, and I think maybe some pink. From a distance it looked like a Hawaiian pattern, but it was something more complex than that, vaguely, I don’t know, Aztec? There were flowers on there, but also like bones and suns and all sorts of incongruous lines and shapes. It might have been a Magic Eye shirt. Type of thing you need to be Carlos Beltran to pull off.)

Anyway, the Post recently switched to using Facebook comments on its news stories, meaning commenters are no longer shielded by anonymity. So we know that this particular Beltran-blamer is a cabinet maker named Glen Volz who believes that Beltran was not, in fact, motivated on Wednesday when he went 2-for-4 with a double, and presumably also not motivated in the 52 games before that, in which he posted an .875 OPS despite the bone-on-bone condition that everyone thought would sideline him a lot more often than it has.

But I guess kudos to you for your conviction, Glen Volz.