Wow, You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

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• Fred March 22, 2011 at 3:05 am

  Wow! I have no words for the “dumb” that flowed out of her mouth.
  • METS62FAN March 22, 2011 at 10:28 am

    More evidence of Press piling on. This is more typical Car crash jounalism to feed the sm midmkt bloodlust for ALL things NY. You guys really need to channel surf for the out of town game broadcasts to truly realize hoew the opposition’s HOMER announcers villify NY spending calling out NY fans as rediculously overdemanding, The worst of these are the Braves announcer groups folloede by the Gnats & Cincy crews. Consider this an appeasement piece for the fans of teams who never consumate “THE BIG DEAL” “See, we don’t spend ALL that mponey because u end up paying for it much longer than u should”, is the message they’re sending to KC,PITT,CINCY,CLEVE,ETC.
• Metstheory22 March 22, 2011 at 7:23 am

  It’s not like the Mets are the only team that owes money to players that do not play for them anymore. How much did the Angels owe G. Matthews to play for us. How much money do the Yankees pay. Teams paying Luxury tax is a form of payment for players not playing on your team.
  • Donal March 22, 2011 at 9:32 am

    The Angels paid GMJ over $20 million to play for the Mets.
• srt March 22, 2011 at 7:34 am

  It’s fashionable these days for these beat writers to find anything and everything negative to post concerning the Mets. That pendulum will start swinging back the other way soon enough.
  • luisdiego22002 March 22, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Mets bashing is a decade´s old sport. Nothing new. What is surprising is that these journalists can actually publish such unreasoned and frankly, quite stupid comments with such regularity. Is that the way they handle all their news? Don´t they have editors?
• Mex_17 March 22, 2011 at 7:43 am

  Technically, didn’t she forget Bobby Bonilla?
• iz March 22, 2011 at 9:15 am

  Since she was writing something that some people may not know, and all you are capable of doing is trashing her, then it is obvious that you are the useless author, probably jealous of the fact that she earns a paycheck doing this and you only get patted on the back by these phony lovers of all things mets until it goes sour and then they hate on it. Wrok on on helping your horde of heaters to pick on the next mets to hate on. You are an ace at hating.. a failure on adding substance. But hey, that seems to be the Met way at least here on this site.
  • Pete March 22, 2011 at 9:21 am

    why don’t you do something else with your time then, you ass.
  • Craig Lerner March 22, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    Sorry I didn’t measure up to your standards. I don’t blog about the Mets for money, I simply love the team. I’m tired of seeing them portrayed as badly as they are on a continual basis by the mainstream media.

    You don’t seem to have a problem with it, good for you. However, I do, especially when they are taking potshots that are uncalled for.

    The fact that she writes for a national audience should mean more objectivity, not less.

    She is an avowed Yankees fan which was obvious in her swipe against the Mets. To each their own. I suggest you continue to read her content and pass on reading mine because I don’t intend to water down my support and defense of the Mets just to statisy your urge for more abusive content denigrating the team you profess to be a fan of.
  • JerryG15 March 23, 2011 at 7:39 am

    You should stay in school.
• iz March 22, 2011 at 9:21 am

  To further illustrate your pure jealousy of the lady, the fact that she writes for ESPN should have been a signal to anyone with an IQ over 25 that she was writing for a national baseball audience and not just for the 11 Sandy lovers that you write for. And you didn’t know know the Mets were # 1 in this category. You might have thought, but to know it would have required research, somthing you must be incapable of doing otherwisae you might be a beat writer or author for an organization that pays for the work done. So you and your 11 buddies continue to giggle. Meanwhile you all just prove yourselves to be the embaarrassment you are to true Met fans.
  • Pete March 22, 2011 at 9:22 am

    “true Mets fans”? and let me guess that would be you? you are a joke
  • Berbalerbs March 22, 2011 at 10:10 am

    wow you’re an idiot, iz.
    • Berbalerbs March 22, 2011 at 10:12 am

      Oh and congrats on your 400th consecutive comment that has nothing to do with baseball…on a baseball blog. Jacka**.
  • luisdiego22002 March 22, 2011 at 10:15 am

    Sparing the ad hominem attacks, I have a comment I´d like to share. Arguments are based on reason which is based on the relation between propositions (truisms, if you will) and the conclusions derived from them. This, of course, is called logic.
    In the case in point, Kattie Sharp, “the jornalist” states that the Mets owe 19 million dollars to three former players, which is, by far, the most owed by any other MLB team in this effect. The conclusion, though silent, is implicit to the actual statement. Which is that the Mets have incurred a huge mistake. This may or may not be true but, this is not real problem. First off, we don´t actually now what other teams owe released players. Second, we don´t really now if this amount can be considered a large portion of the teams total debt and what is owed to the Mets by other teams in the same effect. Or whether or not this sum can be considered a normal, small or large according to industry standards. Now, we should consider this: baseball is a business, which generates profits and losses (inputs and outputs), the sum of which represents corporate success or failure. Unless, we actually have any knowledge about these figures, we can´t really give an objective analysis and conclusion to the whole affair. In this case, as I stated before (from what can be noted from the cited text),Sharp does indeed imply that the Mets made a mistake. From where I´m sitting, if she did not actually make public the neccessary information, then her conclusions are subjective and baseless. Therefore, as mere opinion, can be discarded by the reader anyway he wishes.
• Donal March 22, 2011 at 9:57 am

  Has anyone verified her claim? According to Baseball Reference, the Angels are still paying GMJ $10.9 million this year. Thats over $22 million total to play for another team for 2 years.

  Are there other bad deals around MLB to compare these to?
• Metsie March 22, 2011 at 11:20 am

  This might be relevant if the Yankees hadn’t paid 25 Mill in 2009 for NO ONE as it was what they had to pay in Payroll Tax!

  They managed to get that down to 18 Mil in 2010 for the same NO PLAYERS!

  Funny thats about how much we wasted on ACTUAL players!
• Mr North Jersey March 22, 2011 at 12:27 pm

  I don’t know this Katie Sharp or what her fan loyalties are. I have read the post and tried to see if there is some type of intent to say something other than what was said and I just don’t see anything wrong with what she said in this post.

  It says “ESPN Stats & Information’s Katie Sharp reports”.

  To me that is all she did. Reported a fact that the Mets $19M is by far the most money currently owed to former players of any team.

  She even reported that the Angels owe the second-most money to former players $11M.

  I don’t see anything resembling a personal remark just a statement of fact.
• stick March 22, 2011 at 12:55 pm

  not really sure what the big deal is. Not exactly news that the Mets just released a couple of stiffs on big contracts.

  So, the only real relevance I guess is to point out that the prior FO signed a couple of guys to deals that went sour.

  But, every team has some guys like this. And is it actually better to keep them on the roster (and thus off her list) as opposed to trying to make your team better by replacing them?

  Also, why hone in on guys that were cut? Why not look at total dead wood, such as payroll $$ on the DL too (not that it helps the Mets any!)

  but bottom line, it really has nothing to do with anything related to the product on the field, so who the hell cares?