Is your head spinning yet?
We live in the age of the 24 hour news cycle thanks to the internet, but somehow when it comes to the hot stove season, it’s more like a 24 minute news cycle.
Case in point, the Matt Holliday rumors.
Everyone who has an inkling, a feeling or a thought on the Holliday situation keeps adding to the suffocating cycle and viral onslaught of baseless information that contradicts itself from minute to minute.
Matt Holliday’s free agency has now taken on a life of it’s own. Much like the SciFi classic, “The Blob”, it creeps, and crawls, and eats, and grows.
Scott Boras doesn’t help matters when he keeps saying that his client Matt Holliday is this year’s Mark Teixeira, but nothing could be more further from the truth. Holliday is definitely not in the same class as Teixeira, and it’s not even close.
Teixeira is a superstar and a perennial MVP candidate, whereas Matt Holliday is neither of those things. And yet by the enormous volume of information, most of it useless, you would think Holliday is the second coming of Ted Williams.
In the last three days, the Holliday twists and turns, which are being fueled mostly by wild speculation, have reached a new level of internet saturation.
One of the more popular hot stove sites had over 30 different links or references to Matt Holliday in the last 48 hours alone. And they were all in individual blog posts! Now take that number and multiply it by the number of letters in Holliday’s name, square it and then multiply it again by the number of baseball blogs and… well, you get the picture.
One minute the Mets won’t spend on Holliday, the next minute the Mets are going all out for him. One writer gets a chuckle out of Holliday in a Met uniform, while another says it’s written in the stars. One post says that Holliday is too rich for the Mets taste, and later that day he’s right up the Mets alley. Geesh…
The worst part of it is that 24 hours later, a whole new slew of blog posts with the same contradicting information is recycled and regurgitated the next day. Of course, the names have been changed to protect the guilty, but basically its the same crap, over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. It’s completely mind boggling.
Actually, it’s indescribable… it’s indestructable… Nothing can stop it!
Sadly, I myself posted a Matt Holliday blog when either Heyman or Rosenthal reported that a source told them Holliday preferred to sign with the Mets or Yankees. The next day there were conflicting reports and I was going to repost the updated information. As I gathered my thoughts, the story changed again and Holliday was suddenly back on the Mets radar, but then… <Insert a terrifying scream here.>
To be continued…
You definitely have too much time on your hand. lol
i doubt the Yankees will pursue Matt Holliday. The Cardinals are interested; do not know who else might be, perhaps Boston, if they failed to re-sign Bay…the Dodgers?
Actually, i’m guessing the Mets have a good shot at the guy, surely NOT in the $180mm-range broached by Boras…but a $20mm+/yr package over 4 – 5 years, i bet gets him.
Our first priority this off-season, at theend of the day, must be the starting rotation. There, i’d load it up: sign Lackey, try to trade for Doc Haliday, AND also sign Marquise and as a lark Ben Sheets. Stockpile the pitching. Then, we have the luxury of seeing if Pelfrey (if not part of a Haliday trade, of which i think he’d be an attractive piece for the Blue Jays)and Maine can rebound. And we could send Ollie on a 1-way train ride to Siberia.
Pitching, pitching, pitching; then a LF like Holliday, then a solid right-handed 1B (Jackson, DeRosa) to either back Murphy up or dig in solo for 1 – 2 years while Davis develops.
i’m not high on Murphy like many Met fans are, but am basically neutral on the guy, although if the Blue Jays wanted him as part of a package of some ML-ready players + legit prospects for Doc…hallelujah!
My fantasy package to get Haliday would include: Pelfrey (but only if we add at least 2 top starters to the mix), Murphy, Mejia, Martinez, and Tejada. (If we had to give up Flores or Holt instead of some of the above, i’d do it to snag Haliday, whom i believe would dominate the NL for a few years.)
i think it’s time for Met fans to think LARGE and pressure the front office to do rebuild this team right.
And i’d bring the fences in…but forget about that one. Let’s focus on pitching, pitching, pitching and some added power.
Also, i’m trying to think outside the box: how about Xavier Nady as an addition to the 2010 Mets, IF deemed healthy…and IF he can play 1B?
LMAO That’s brilliant!
AS PROBABLY THE OLDEST TO POST TO THIS COMMENT SO FAR, LET ME START BY SAYING, AS A KID I DID MY BEST TO SEE EVERY HOROR FLICK POSSIBLE IN THE THEATERS, OF ALL OF THEM, THE BLOB WAS THE ONLY ONE TO SUPPLY DISCOMFORT FALLING ASLEEP. WHY: IT WAS TOTALLY SILENT & COULD BE FAST & THEY ONLY IIMMOBOLIZED IT INSTEAD OF KILLING IT. FOR A KID WHOSE BEDROOM WAS AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN STAIRS, THAT WAS FREIGHTENING. HELL, BY THE END IT COULD’VE SWALLOWED MY ENTIRE HOUSE WHILE PENETRATING IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS BAY IS A BETTER INVERSTMENT THAN HOLLIDAY? BAY’S POWER SEEMS MORE PULL ORIENTED(LF) WHILE HOLLIDAY’S MORE WRIGHT PIAZZA TYPE(RCF) HAVE U MEASURED CITI LATELY? BESIDES SINCE ’04 HOLLIDAY HAS MADE A TOTAL OF 31 ETRRORS IN LF COMPAERED TO BAY’S 18 IN THE SAME POSITTION OVER SAME TIME PERIOD.HOLLIDAY MADE MOST OF THOSE ERRORS PATROLLING VAST LF IN COL. THE ONLY COMPARATIVE ACRAGE TO CITI’S IN LF. IS BOSTON GOING TO GO “ALL IN” AFTER THEY ALREADY ACQUIRED BAY’S POTENTIAL REPLACEMENT IN HERMEDA?
WOULDN’T IT BE SWEET TO PULL A SWITCH ON BORAS FOR A CHANGE?
I STILL MAINTAIN A PURSUIT OF PRINCE IS OUR MOST PROMISING OPTION & A PKG OF PELFREY/MAINE/MURPHY CAN GET THAT DOG WALKED. TO FURTHER SUPPORT MY HYPOTHESIS BREWS AREN’T LOOKING FORWARD TO A POTENTIAL 20M ARBI AWARD AFTER THIS SEASON I SUGGEST READING:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aew0QKinAX2c&pid=20601079
CERTAINLY NOT THE SENTIMENTS OF AN OWNER PREPARED TO BREAK THROUGH THE 100M PAYROLL BARRIER. ESP FOR A PLAYER WHO DESPITE TREMENDOUS OFFENSIVE PRODUCTION HAS NOT BROUGHT A POSTSEASON BERTH WITH HIM. WHILE THE MINIMUM POTENTIAL OF 20 ADDITIONAL VICTORIES BY MAINE+PELF COULD.
I MAY BE A GREYBEARDED OLD SCHOOL GUY; BUT A RH 1B IN THE NL? AL PERHAPS; BUT NOT WHEN RUNNING GAME IS SO PREVELANT IN NL. TO ME RH FIELDING IS MURPH’S BIGGEST WEAKNESS @ 1B; BUT 2 RH FIELDING 1B IS REDICULOUS IN NL JUST ASK MEX.