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There see now you can post to your hearts content.

If Alderson spends 200 Mil is his job any more secure if he still doesn’t beat the Phillies?

The money doesn’t matter. If Sandy wants to limit the amount of money he spends thats his problem.

He has to come up with a team that wins regardless of how much those wins cost!

Doesn’t matter if he spends 400 Mil his job is tied to the team performance not team payroll!

If Sandy wants to reduce the payroll to 100 Mil (About where the WS Giants were this year) then he is making his own bed and will have to live in it!

His goal is to get to the playoffs. And it doesn’t matter how much he spends if he gets there! If he doesn’t get there he is gone!

You may prefer Monkey Ball but I am sick of it. Sick of having to import someone else’s player for every position on the field because we can’t properly draft and develop our own competent two way players who have been groomed ahead of time to play a certain position and come up here ready to play Major League Baseball in all facets of the game.

There are reasons we have not developed our own All Star LFer since Cleon Jones, an All Star RFer since Darryl Strawberry, an All star second basemen since Edgardo Alfonzo and an All star CFer since Mookie/Lenny in 1988.

Wright and Reyes are the only players at their positions that we have developed and then gone on to garner some MVP votes. Catchers Grote, Stearns, Carter and Piazza were all acquired by trade. Dyer, Hundley and Thole I guess are our claim to fame in 50 years of drafting and developing catchers.

You see Lifelong, it is not necessary to import all your players. You can instead of getting a players most expensive years, get their BEST one’s instead then not only will your payroll be lower overall but your team actually better, way better. Think the difference between Roberto Alomar with Toronto/Balt/Cleveland and us or the difference between Mo Vaughn with Boston and Mo Vaughn here.

Now If your upset that instead of continuing to lavish money on even more entitled fat cats looking for yet one more “last payday” instead of finally after 25 years of ignoring the farm system and 25 years of watching our high draft choices bust one right after the other we are going to attempt to developing our own Lincecum’s, Heyward’s, Pedroia’s, and Utley’s and try to get their best years instead of their most expensive one’s, that’s just too bad. We could have done both at the same time but for 20 years now it was all about this year and never about the next 5 years and your way wasn’t working very well was it?

You have to wonder how many can read Sherman and see this? “He (Alderson) seemed uncomfortable that the Mets’ current payroll is its largest ever. But so is the $165 million-plus of the Phillies. It is one thing to say you will not play in the Yankees’ financial forum. But Alderson is, at the least, hinting about being “significantly” lower than the Phillies. That may be acceptable in San Diego. Not here, not in a market this size. Not when the inferiority complex with the Phillies is growing to Yankees proportions.”

So translation: In NY fans will not accept winning or losing to their rivals if Mets payroll is far below them but if the Mets payroll is at or above their rivals then fans will be more accepttable to winning or losing.

The sad thing is many actually think like this.