Unlike you who only goes when you KNOW they are going to win but then can;’t see them play because they only allow season ticket holders to buy WS tickets!

I have seen two Met WS appearances in my lifetime, how many you seen bandwagoner?

You will be Life Long Yankee fan then until they start sucking again which is what life as a bandwagoner is all about isn’t it LLMF?

You cannot give up, as we have done, six #1, four #2 and three #3 draft choices as we have done over the last dozen years without it seriously effecting the talent level of your team down the road.

If your not getting your fair share of young talent that will be here for 6-10 years and other teams are, then your just climbing a much bigger hill then everyone else. If you combine giving away so many high draft choices with drafting for signability (slot) while everyone else drafts for true talent that hill gets even steeper. Add in the lack of Major League production from the IFA market (other than Reyes) and it becomes hopeless.

Sure you can close the talent gap by taking advantage of a smaller market teams finances like we have done with Piazza, Leiter, Lo Duca, Delgado and Johan but those are all big money deals. You need the 2004, 2005, 2006 salaries of the Reyes and Wrights to balance out the payroll. You can’t expect to pay 15-20 million for 12 guys, nor can you expect another team undergoing financial problems to provide all your solutions whenever you need them.

Your maybe angry that the Wilpon’s are holding the line on spending in 2011 but your anger is misplaced. You should be angry that they didn’t spend anything near enough on the future going all the way back fifteen years. If they hadn’t “gone for it” every year they wouldn’t have given up early round draft choices on guys like Roger Cedeno, David Weathers, Todd Zeile and Kevin Appier and there were plenty of players available with those picks that are currently helping the teams that drafted them win baseball games right now. Guys who have been to All Star games, gotten MVP and Cy Young votes, even won a couple of them. If we’re now forced to do what we should have been doing all along, all I can say is it’s about time.

A one of the Mets fans to cry foul regarding meddlesome Mets ownership, I enthusiastically; yet, respectfully disagree. Jeff Wilpon looks like Prince Charles and acts like Frank Burns (M*A*S*H).

His eyes are too close together and his good ideas, like obliterating an toolbox, are too far apart. In short, Jeff’s a tool, … and, not the brightest inth the woodshed/dugout/whatever either!

His halfwit schenanighans (interfering with player evaluations, medical reports, and trades) are coming full circle. I can’t wait to see him join Madoff. Hope the bum gets life, so there’s no chance of a Wilpon returning to de-throne my Mets from future “meaningful games!”

Make no mistake about it. Mets fans hate Wilpon!

Dean

It would also be much more helpful to hire as many scouts, development personal and sign as many of the most talented IFA’s as possible. Develop all the prospects with as much care and time as necessary so we can stop being dependent on whoever just so happens to be a free agent every year.

Having a deep and talented farm system provides so many more options than just sitting around every year and signing someone because “who else were we going to get to play _____?” Coincidentally, we haven’t had a deep and talented farm since the mid 80′s, which just so happens to be the last time we won a World Championship.

Putting some extra seed money into the June amateur draft and July International signing period will not only result in so many more options available to you over the next 15 years (for those who make it) but also over the next 5 or so for those that don’t, and cost a fraction of the money we have spent on expensive, injured, unproductive and past their prime free agents over the last couple of decades.

If Jeff wants to have SRO crowds at Citi Field for a solid decade he needs to start putting the time, effort and resources into the team four to five years ahead of time rather than waiting until the last second every year.

Will you still be a Met fan after the July trading deadline reyesAdvocate?
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you couldn’t do that Metsie..

My guess would be ZERO!

Which makes you to blame for the Wilpons needing money to pay the bills because you a SELF PROCLAIMED Life Long Met Fan is not really a fan since a REAL FAN goes to see them no matter what the situation!