there are people that you turn around and directly parrot everything they say, and they will still slam you. It’s just a relaity you have to deal with.

When Joe D. first discussed the writer opening with me he gave me a word of warning. He told me that a solid 75% of the readership at MMO are not saber fans and that 50% of the readership was 40+ years old. He also told me that I needed to have a very thick skin to blog on MMO or otherwise I should think about writing for another site.

My response to him was not to worry because although I love and use advanced metrics all the time, I’m not combative about it and thought I would fit in well with the other great bloggers on this site.

To my surprise you have been on my case since my first post 8 weeks ago and I wish I knew why. It may come as a surprise to you but I actually love baseball and love the Mets and watch every single game each season just like you do.

As a show of good faith, on a couple of occasions I took your suggestions and started including batting average into my posts alongside OBP although I’m not a true believer in Avg.

I also started using at-bats and RBI’s as well just so my posts will have a broader appeal and because you seemed to have a big problem with my omission of them in my earlier posts.

I did this because I wanted to try and be accepted in this very unique MMO community and to show you that I’m not at all confrontational or overly defensive about how I choose to evaluate players.

It seems that no matter how hard I try to show you that I’m not out to get old-schoolers like you, you seem to have the perception that my posts are somehow an attack on that philosophy.

For some reason you continue to come after me for things I may have said or opinions I may have shared, and I just want you to know that it has never been my intention to knock you, your philosophy or anyone or anything else in my posts. I haven’t even written one post on sabermetrics. All I do is post and comment on Mets news like everyone else and maybe share a different opinion occasionally. I don’t think I need to be taken to task for that.

I hope that in the future you can see that I am a true die hard Mets fan just like you, and that we can coexist with out having to resort to the idea that I have some sort of an agenda on this site because the fact is that I don’t.

I have been a big fan of this site for many years and even though I didn’t always agree with Joe D. or some of the other writers, I respected the fact that we could all have intelligent debate about the Mets, a team we all have equal passion for.

Anyway, I just felt I needed to get that off my chest and I hope that in the future you will respect my opinions just as I respect yours.

My concern is that the Mets were penny-wise pound-foolish in their failure to re-sign Takahashi, who is an experienced lefty, effective in a variety of roles and, by all accounts, a pleasure to have around. To think we could have had him around for three years for less money than one of Ollie’s years, and declined to do so, is difficult for me to accept.

Hence, I am less than enthusiastic about the Tankersly signing. I recall never having fear when he took the mound against the Mets. That’s really all I recall about him.

It’s OK if he feels they haven’t spent enough I think fans have been saying the Mets don’t spend enough for the longest time now. Why should this year be any different?

I myself have complained about spending in years past.

The difference now is that weighing where we are already in payroll and seeing that just because they spend money doesn’t mean much based on the results of the past few years. I am OK to allow the Alderson era to do things the way they want and see if they can garner better results in the next few years.

I call it “patience” I am sure others have a different name for it.

In any event I think a fan wanting the team to spend is what a fan is entitled to if they wish but also allowing a new GM time to implement a system his way should be recognized as well.

1 cents worth.

“As the Mets enter into a new era with a brand new philosophy based on tried and true principles, lets hope that it never happens again”

tried and true principles is another way of saying sabermetrics and moneyball philosophy.

I’ll give you this though, maybe Sandy figures now that Philly has the best rotation in baseball then maybe he can throw in the towel for 2011 and save more of that money to sign high end draft picks.

Tried and true? Since when? Only one World Series and that was in the 80s.