I don’t like spending a lot of money on free agents either, that’s why all the guys I said Alderson should have signed were either on 1 or 2 year contracts, and all of them were signed for under 10 million.

Is that “monkeyball”?

Oh and I’m not “scared” of anything. All I said was that I thought there was other players available that were better fits for the team than the ones Alderson signed – I’ll even give you a quick example – D.J Carrasco signed for the same EXACT contract as Randy Choate – Randy Choate fit the team better because he would have replaced Pedro Felciano, and given us another lefty in the bullpen – So, is saying to have more than one lefty in the bullpen, and in this division, called “monkeyball” too?

Here’s what I don’t get either, you name the Redsox and the Yankees as teams that have a succesful “successful strategy” when they have the #1 and #3 highest payrolls in the major leagues. Isn’t your point NOT to go out and sign big free agents? Don’t you say that’s our downfall? But that’s what the teams YOU say have a succesful strategy do. Like Carl Crawford, John Lackey, ect. and Sabathia, Teixeria, ect.

Monkeyball has produced more World Series games won for us in 25 years than only Wash/Mont, Pitts, Mil, Cubs, Houston, San Diego, Colorado, Baltimore, KC, and Seattle. Ten teams we have won more World Series games than in 25 years. Exactly 1 more game than to be exact. With the largest payroll in the League and people are getting upset that we’re changing away from a piece it together every year approach to a try to compete for a decade at a time approach? Very short sighted to say the least.

This team should easily have the same number of World Series games won as other teams like Atlanta (11), Boston (8), Toronto (8), Florida (8) Minn (8), Philly (8), SF (7), St. Louis (7), Oak (5), Cleveland (5) ChiSox (4), Cinn (4), LA (4), LAA (4), AZ (4).

Face it. Monkeyball has run it’s course. It had two decades to produce and failed. One World Series game won, WITH the largest payroll in the entire league.

It’s high time we start putting big money into the future instead of the present or our future will be no different than the last quarter of a decade.

They want to continue to play monkeyball every year with the roster and now are mad as hornets that some of the NYM operating revenue is being diverted away from the Major League team and put into areas where it will do the most good for the most time.

A fundamental shift in philosophy from rewarding people for playing well for other teams to drafting signing and developing the highest possible talent within our own system so we will no longer be stuck with dinosaures or rejects as our only options.

This is very scary for some people but what is really scary are the results that monkeyball has realized during the last more than two decades.

Do you realize that we have won exactly one World Series game in

At that time there were those who were still beating the drum for Wally Backman who has a police record in Arizona telling us all we need to know about his beating up his wife and other women, and drug and alcohol use as well as lying to the police, etc. I was very surprised to read comments from some on this blog that it didn’t matter what Backman did off the field, they wanted him on the field anyway.

We would have had the exact same lackadasical play that Omar and Jerry tolerated around here in 2009 (not much could have been done) and 2010.

Nice to see some energy on the field.

Citi Field has very awkward urinals!

I think what would make it an even more compelling argument is if the players on the team were mainly home grown types! If the team stays play off bound and bounced each year with rentals and F/A’s I would find it very hard to root for that.

All that being said I cast my vote for the championship. I wouldn’t have been able to have been a Buffalo Bills fan in the 90′s.

The Mets lost TWO very good Left handerd RP’s in the offseason, and they were replaced by ONE guy, who is average AT BEST. Now, it was 100% the right move to move on from Felciano, but the PERFECT replacement for him would have been Choate. He was cheap, he didn’t cost a draft pick, and most importantly, he was good.

Takahashi should have been brought back also.

I don’t understand why you would only have ONE left hander in your bullpen, and in this division, when there are plenty of guys avialble that could have been signed, and were cheap too.

“A large part of this off season was devoted to discussing what Omar’s guys will do vs. Alderson’s guys despite the fact that Omar was here for 6 years and Alderson 6 months. As if that’s a level playing field.”

and that’s not true. I’m not doing that, you just THINK I’m doing that. All I said was Alderson could have done a better job this offseason- I felt there was other guys available that fit the team better than the guys he signed – And if those players were signed, it would have INCREASED our chances at making the playoffs. That’s all I said. Your trying to make it out to be something more than what it is. It was just like how I criticized Omar a few seasons ago, and now I defend him all the time.

It would be pretty funny if a few years from now, I’m defending Alderson because your complaning that he didn’t draft superstars at every position – I could actually see that happening.

Sorry I’m not gonna lessen my beliefs for you. A great franchise doesn’t hope to win it once in 10 years and then go away. The Twins are a better franchise over the last 10 years than the Marlins even with Florida’s championship this decade.

It takes more talent to sustain a winning franchise for 10 years 162 games a year than it does to win 11 games in October.

Would I absolutely LOVE it if the Mets won a World Series? Yes. But I wouldn’t want them to win and then ignore the years following that championship.

The best franchises in a 10 year span do not try to make it to the playoffs once and roll the dice. They try to make it every year, because making it is a major accomplishment… and we as fans would be considered LUCKY if we saw the Mets in the playoffs for the better half of a decade.

If people don’t bow at the church of Alex68 you just call them names instead of having an actual counter argument like an adult.

Pathetic? Do you own a mirror?