Comments on: Take Me Out To The Ball Game http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127289 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:30:52 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127289 i get it, but i wouldn’t want to have the “success” that texas has had over the last 30 years.

plus, as bad as the wilpons may be, they don’t come near george w bush as my all time least favorite owner.

that’s right, i said it.

]]> By: t agee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127283 t agee Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:25:50 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127283 Having a top 5 payroll certainly enhances your chances but many of the Rangers top players last year weren’t really making the huge bucks.

Feliz, CJ Wilson, Hamilton, Cruz, Kinzler, Andrus, Guererro, Murphy, Lewis and Hunter.

In other words they acquired or brought up these guys and THEN added to them with the Lee’s, Molina’s ect.

Texas also has 20 prospects rated in the top 20 of the league in which their playing, meaning that their recent success is sustainable, primarily because they won’t be “forced” into making a bad signing because “well who else were they going to get to play at x y or z position.”

]]> By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127278 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:23:16 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127278 they’re going to win a toilet ?

actually sounds about right.

]]> By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127271 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:01 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127271 desi: hey freh, you gotta lah ah essplainin to do.

]]> By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127268 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:08:10 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127268 texas has had one good year in the last twenty, and it coincided with the team finally getting sold by their bankrupt owner. the angels have had the top payroll in that division over the last 10 years, and they have a WS and the most division titles too.

keep saying it, you’re proving my point.

having a top 5 payroll increases the likelihood of making the playoffs. the mets unfortunately are the exception, not the rule.

]]> By: mets2012 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127256 mets2012 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:59:03 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127256 Francis,

Now you are coming around to it.
500 out of 1500 accounts.
Pay a big Bil or you go to jail.

]]> By: t agee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127254 t agee Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:58:48 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127254 Could not agree more Chris. When you look at the kind of ancillary money Omar doled out compared to what Sandy is paying out it’s staggering. Alderson spent about 7 this year because 90% of the payroll had been tied up by his predossesor.

Speaking strictly of the smaller type deals Schowenweiss got 10M, Alou 15M, El Duque 15M among others. Add that to Wagner’s 44M, Pedro’s 54M, Beltran’s 80M UFC-Rod’s 36-54M, Beltran’s 118M, Johan’s 138M, Bay’s 80M, not to mention Perez 36M or Castillo’s 24M or the 60M paid to Delgado it’s really a staggering amount of money Minaya had to play with. Truly staggering.

If anyone is under the illusion that the Mets budget is not primarily related to the exorbinate amount of money spent over the last 7 years. They are crazy.

]]> By: Des http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127245 Des Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:42:04 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127245 Your mistake Chris. The Wilpons finances have a great deal to do with the product they’re willing to put on the field. You seem to be the only person who thinks it doesn’t. Many stories that have recently been in the press contradict your view. If you don’t want to concern yourself with the Wilpon’s, hence the team’s finances, it’s your right.

]]> By: Chris http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127244 Chris Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:36:44 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127244 if payroll ever gets to 70 million we’ll talk. sooooo fed up with this payroll BS. payrolls don’t win, farm systems win. I would rather the Mets have a payroll of 110-120 million and be in the upper echelon of farm systems than be 150-160 million and be 26th in baseball. The money needs to be going into the draft, not over-the-hill past-their-prime or no-prime-at-all free agents. Anytime any of this payroll garbage comes up I’m just going to say Texas Rangers.

I’ll say it three more times…

Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers

]]> By: Chris http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127242 Chris Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:35:06 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127242 because one has nothing to do with the other. this is a new york Mets fan site, not a financial scandal blog. No one gives a F about the Wilpons and their problems. I have my own financial problems.

]]> By: Chris http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127239 Chris Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:31:44 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127239 if payroll ever gets to 70 million we’ll talk. sooooo fed up with this payroll bullshite. payrolls don’t win, farm systems win. I would rather the Mets have a payroll of 110-120 million and be in the upper echelon of farm systems than be 150-160 million and be 26th in baseball. The money needs to be going into the draft, not over-the-hill past-their-prime or no-prime-at-all free agents. Anytime any of this payroll garbage comes up I’m just going to say Texas Rangers.

I’ll say it three more times…

Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers

]]> By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127226 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:49:21 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127226 srt, great point. it would be guilt more than outrage, but you are sooooo right.

]]> By: francis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127223 francis Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:47:17 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127223 it is however, in the general manager’s words, “significantly higher” than where they would like to be.

i’m expecting the cut to come in 2011, unless selig gets his s**t together and kicks these jerks to the curb.

i didn’t realize until today that they were instrumental in bringing other investors into the scheme.

i can almost forgive someone for not looking too deep into what was going on when it came to themselves. but involving others is sha-dy.

]]> By: any http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127221 any Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:37:30 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127221 I am already on public record as predicting them to win the WC, so I am with you on the good year idea.

and 1,000% about needing to get actual game action started, and soon.

]]> By: any http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127220 any Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:35:48 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127220 as much as people say “anything that gets a title” to justify Cuban, or attila the Hun, as the owner, i think they still would complain.

Me, I care a lot about the team. Little about the owners. The owners having issues is just not that big a deal to me, and getting new owners will not change my relationship to the team.

]]> By: Annie Savoy http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127218 Annie Savoy Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:34:55 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127218 Both of those questions are almost unanswerable – what I’m going to do now is look toward Spring Training at Port St. Lucie and the team – it’s their turn to get into the spotlight and shine.

Somehow I feel that this will turn out to be a good year for them.

Join me?

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127215 srt Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:17:54 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127215 I’m curious….

If the Mets had won the WS a couple of times since ’06, or maybe just last year, would there be this much outrage from the fan base over the Wilpons?

Just wondering if the Madoff issue wasn’t the straw that actually broke the camel’s back. It’s just been one thing after another every year since Beltran took strike three. Very little happiness in Met land.

]]> By: Des http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127212 Des Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:13:30 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127212 I think the situation calls for the expertise of a frequent poster from last year, ‘baby al’. The baby man had the Wilpons pegged. I hope he posts a lot again this season.

My question to Martin: Why can’t someone care about both baseball and financial scandals?

]]> By: XtreemIcon http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127211 XtreemIcon Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:10:41 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127211 CT represent!

]]> By: Annie Savoy http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/02/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html#comment-127208 Annie Savoy Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:04:37 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=43789#comment-127208 I was very good in geography – I live on the other side of NY state – in Connecticut. My screen name came from ‘Bull Durham’ of course.

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