Wright and Fred Patch Things Up, Wants To Stay A Met

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• alex68 June 3, 2011 at 9:27 am

  but the loss of what a healthy Wright can do on the field and the marketing of him is hard to measure.”

  lmao, are you serious??!!??
  • scottydoesn'tknow June 3, 2011 at 10:19 am

    Look, if you don’t like David Wright, that is fine, but you can’t argue with the fact that he is the poster child of the Mets and his face and personality are very marketable for the club. I mean, he is one of the few caucasions on the team, and I am not trying to be racist or sterotypical, But…

    It is hard to use Jose Reyes in a commercial or spot when he speaks broken english. If Jose spoke perfect english (perhaps with a sutble British undertone) he would be a cash cow, with both his on field performance and his off the field marketability.

    Wright puts up solid numbers, nothing stellar, but solid. Add in the marketability of his personality and he becomes a great commodity.

    I’m telling you, if Jose ordered Rosetta Stone for English, and learned how to speak elequently, then he would be a cash cow.
    • alex68 June 3, 2011 at 10:54 am

      scottyseemsnottoreallyknow:

      he is one of the few caucasions on the team”
      izzy, parnell, murphy, davis, bay, pelfrey, niese, dickey, turner, pridie, thole, capuano, gee, byrdak, oconnor.

      out of the top of my head i mention all of those, how can you tell me the mets have a few “caucasions” on the roster? out of 25 mets players i just mentioned 14!!

      on the jose reyes, i guess you do have a valid and solid point.. good work..
      • tee June 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm

        Its funny that you mention all the white players on the team and yet there is no uproar over this, but when Omar constructed his “Los Mets” team, many complained and some even called the team unwatchable or unrelatable…
    • jdon June 3, 2011 at 11:07 am

      While it is true that Wright is the poster boy for the mets, you could argue that it was equivalent to being King of the Dung Heap. This has been a dung heap of an organization for several years now, equated with losing, chaos and mismanagement. So what is the significance of being the face of this franchise? David is a valuable player, but being the poster boy for an organization that has been profoundly incompetent is nothing to be thrilled about. Can we stop this abject love for players developed in our farm system and focus on winning? People talk about Reyes and his entertainment value. Just win, baby. He has been here a long time (as has David) and we have not won. The home town boy argument is essentially specious.
    • tee June 3, 2011 at 1:29 pm

      So Wright’s only marketable because he’s white. He might speak the English language better than Jose, but David is definitely not eloquent (not like Dickey or Chris Young)…Jose’s marketability goes beyond the English language and how white folks perceive him…in fact, I would bet that more latinos watch and follow baseball than whites (football being the most popular sport).
    • t agee June 3, 2011 at 1:57 pm

      I find Wright to be kind of bland and boring and frankly I’m glad to see SNY interview different players after the game, which started before he got hurt.

      I don’t have any problem understanding Reyes, although he too keeps it kind of bland, but at least he looks like he’s having a bit of fun with it at times and I would hate it if he spoke with an english accent.

      Players mostly do their speaking on the field anyway and that’s all I’m really concerned with.

      For my money Jose Reyes has been the face of the franchise ON the field. The distinction between us and everyone else since he got here and the best position player we have ever developed and the one who, to me, projects to have the longest and most effective career.
• chris June 3, 2011 at 9:37 am

  So when is Dont Trade Wright Day?
  • Donal June 3, 2011 at 10:07 am

    Reportedly June 17th.