...was when it started, and this just confirms the complete assholeness of one, Jonathon Papsmear...As per MLBTraderumors.com:

6:14pm: SI.com's Jon Heyman is keeping tabs, via Twitter, on a war of words that has sprung up between Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon and recently-claimed reliever Billy Wagner. As Heyman "tweeted" a few hours ago, "wagner said he 'loves boston.' also said he doesn't expect to go. why? "inside intuition.''Papelbon seemed to take exception to the comments and said Sunday afternoon that he doesn't feel the Red Sox necessarily need to add the 38-year-old veteran. Joe McDonald of the Providence Journal passes along the quote: "We have a good dynamic down there in the bullpen and guys who work well together," Papelbon said. "Is Billy Wagner a good pitcher? Will he bring more depth to our bullpen and make our bullpen better? There's no question about it. But you still have to think about what we have now and what we've been able to accomplish to this point in the season."And here's Heyman, back on Twitter, with Wagner's response: "i dont have anything to say about somebody like that ... when he walks in my shoes then i'll say something. let him be 38 and have tommy john surgery."

Papelbon doesn't want to add Wagner to the pen for any particular reason, other than the fact that he feels threatened, despite the fact that his team needs serious help. A.S.S.H.O.L.E.

On a side note, I would like the Mets to hold onto Wagner, decline his option, offer him arbitration (which I would assume he would decline, as 1-he doesn't want to be a 7th/8th inning guy, and 2-he probably wants to go a team that will be better) and then collect the 2 top draft picks for him, as he currently projects to be a type A free agent, with only a month left in the season.