Why do you keep bringing up four years ago and saying the news is old? Even if it were, and it’s NOT, why is it such a big deal to you? You seem like a person who has never had a happy day in his life.

Your continued references to Amtrak are silly. But you’re staying within the travel industry and it’s a step up from pushing shopping carts on Kennedy Boulevard in Bayonne. LOL

NEW YORK METS NEW YORK YANKEES

JASON ISRINGHAUSEN(39) FREDDY GARCIA(35)
CHRIS CAPUANO(33) BARTOLO COLON(38)
CHRIS YOUNG(32)
BOOF BONSER(30)

AS THIS IS THE POST-STEROID ERA THAT MOST LIKELY DOES NOT FAVOR THE CONTINUING SAGAS OF ELDER STATESMEN PITCHERS LIKE PETTITTE & CLEMENS, IREMAINS TO BE SEEN WHICH GM’S BETS WILL BE PAY OFF BETTER.

ONE THING IS CERTAIN, SHOULD ALDERSON’S BETS COME THROUGH, THE PREDICTIONS FOR HIS TEAM WILL BE ALTERED IN A VERY POSITIVE MANNER, NOT SO MUCH, IN MY OPINION, SHOULD CASHMAN’S FLIERS LAND. ALDERSON , IF NOTHING ELSE, IS MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED IN THESE MATTERS THAN CASH.

He’s on MLB Network tonight, nobody asked him about it. Or like Is I said, use keywords “William, jessup, university….use the recent search tools. Maybe you’ll find it?

Why don’t you call SNY or Adam Rubin and let them know. This would be interesting info but you seem to be the only one in the know. Why?

So what’s the latest for 2011 instead of 4 years ago?

Guys at the high end looking for 7 year contracts, guys at the mid level looking for 3-4 year deals, guys looking to hang on for one more year, guys looking to resurrect their careers, or rule 5′s and non tenders.

A couple from the top shelf is nice, a few more of the plan B type works but by this time you’ve got 80M accounted for and 19 more roster spots to fill. The scrap heap might provide a guy or two and the rehab market could produce a find, maybe one each of the non tenders and rule 5′s. Let’s see how many left? 14 to go, Hmmnn. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a well stocked farm to pick through to fill the roster with some guys who’s best years are ahead of them, not the other way around. Oh well back to the scrap heap.

If only I had tilled the soil and planted the seeds 1,2,3 and 4 years ago, watered them once in a while and spent a little time, attention and money on them I could be filling the roster with all sorts of talented players capable of opening a can of WHOOP ASS 162 times a year and still have some left over for October.

I wonder what Pulsupher and Wilson are up to these days and you know while I’m thinking about it I’ll bet that Baerga might be able to fill a need here too. Let’s “add him to the mix” because the owners don’t have the common sense or balls to demand that we provide our own players. They don’t like to get their hands dirty.

I want a team put together that can last a while, not so many transient parts every year. Not so many guys that do nothing except collect paychecks and clog up the roster.

Guys that are in their early years, playing their best ball, not guys who are hanging on for their last contract to run it’s course before they head off to a life of luxury.

Very little can be worse than the last two years.

[...]Two positions where the Mets are definitely set, are at the corner infield spots where Ike Davis and David Wright bring a potent bat and a steady glove. Both Wright and Davis showed up to camp a week earlier than their reporting date, …[...]…

What is his value? Very few teams have a SS that can fully defend the position AND hit let alone run the bases the way he does. I don’t care for his approach at lead off lately but I wouldn’t want to risk pissing him off by moving him.

I think his value is Carl Crawford like. He plays good defense at the premier defensive position and does everything else similar to Crawford WHEN he’s up and running.

There are an unbelivable number of dinosaurs playing SS right now. Jeter, Scutero, Uribe, Rentaria, Miguel Tejada as well as quite a few guys who really aren’t very good offensively and very few close to ML ready TWO dimensional SS in the minors.

I think demand for him will be enormous. I wouldn’t low ball him, he comes off a very friendly contract, even his signing bonus was lame (15K) I’d offer him right now 5/90 no trade, no arb at the end of the deal and whatever other little things he wanted.

It really is a sin that with so much money paid out to so many under performing and brittle former shells of them selves, that we might not have the cash to keep one of our own. That really makes me sick. And you know it’s not just our decision either. Who knows maybe he wants a change too and if he wants to win…..

Even with the new stadium it really seems like we are just back to 2003 again.

They kept foisting the Coleman’s, Alomar’s, Bernytz’s, Vaugn’s, Wagner’s, Bonilla’s, Alou’s, El-Duque’s, and Castillo’s on us while insisting with a straight face that they were trying to win all the while they were not even signing truly talented players who would be up here in four years. IN THEIR PRIME. Giving us the best years of their careers.

We could have had Olerud, Matt Williams and Rafeal Palmero back to back to back for ten years for one tenth of the cost of Coleman, Bonilla and Murray.

They screwed us out of many, many post seasons and no one ever said s**t and now we are where we are because of their guaranteed to fail business model that they have employed to crash three seperate times during their ownership.

Whether they have finally learned a lesson or are forced to sell at least we’re not being served the 3 card monte routine this year.

It is what it is, there’s no viable quick fix, they’ve been lying behind the scenes for years now and if the majority of fans hadn’t been duped all these years they would have seen it coming.