The money will be there for Reyes if the Mets want to resign him.

And Metsie that’s what I said there is no way the Mets can improve or replace what Reyes brings to the Mets and the way he plays.

There is simply no other player that will give the New York Mets a better chance to win than Jose Reyes at shortstop.

The question should not be looked at for the amount.

The Question is Simple: “Can you improve the position Reyes plays in any way shape and form?”

Answer: NO! he is the best SS in Baseball! regardless of if you think he is the best player in baseball, the cheapest buy or most expensive player in baseball history the fact still remains, You can not get a better SS anywhere on this planet right now?

How much or little he costs (or “his worth”) will be based on how many teams CAN improve their SS position by going and getting Reyes.

Which happens to be ALL of them!

So be prepared to pay and pay it! Because any other move is a bad one for us! You will have LOST talent and no amount of money on the planet is going to get it back for you unless you pay Reyes’ rate! Cause he is the only one who can do what he is doing at the SS position.

Save money on things we don’t need instead!

If the Mets spend $100m on their team next year and commit to remaining $100m-$120m, why is that so bad? It’s about who you have, not how much you pay them

Why do Salaries go higher?
Because players in 2010 are better than players in 2006?

100-120 Mil does not get you enough performance to compete.

Not when your main division rival is spending 172 Mil.

Who are the best teams in Baseball?
Phillies 172M
Yankees 201M
Boston 161M

Sure you vcan go on a hot streak with a lower salary and keep in the race. But if you want to win the race you have to be willing to spend on the players who will create more hot streaks when some other player stops carrying them through another.

It’s easy to say you can compete with a 100Mil salary and maybe you can, the Giants seems to if you don’t look at what thier rivals spend to compete.

Giants 118M
Ariz 53M
Colorado 87M
Dodgers 103M (and soon to be falling)
San Diego 45M

Now thats not trying to say that spending money is the key to success. But you have to do it if you want to play for the division if your division is spending money to win.

To say you can compete with a 100Mil salary in the NL East is a fools thinking!
You can’t sign enough talent to keep those winning streaks going or to get the guys need to have a winning streak in the first place!

100M salary to day is basically Middle Quality Roster. It’s that money you spend above 100M that makes you a playoff team.

Bottomline it’s not about HOW MUCH you spend but how you spend what you do.

Our current 140M expenditure is not getting bang for the buck because we are on the end of those big buy contracts, which if attendance was what it should be would have been replaced by other signings that would have kept us competitive.

But in 2009 and 2010 we didn’t bother to show up thanks to early injuries. And whatever money we might have spent to keep us competitive was not there!

Salaries go up EVERY year but the play you get for that money does not increase with it.

So the assertion that we can win with a 100M payroll might work in the cheap NL West and Central but it sure won’t work playing against the Phillies!

If they were selling out Citi and still had financial problems then yes you could say building a stadium with fewer seats was a problem.
But they aren’t even selling out the fewer seats!

When they sold out Shea in that stretch it was because they were in contention from 2005-2008. The collapses came at the end of the year when the earlier Attendance already had paid the bills.

People are hinging on every word spoken now but they quickly forget what was said in 2005 when Omar took over.

Wilpon said at the time we went buying Beltran and Pedro that they were hoping to boost attendance by getting those guys and competing more despite the fact the attendance really wasn’t paying for it at the time.

He admitted that in order for the team to turn a profit they would have to make the playoffs where that EXTRA money would be made on Tickets and all the things tat generate funds during an attended game. Without a playoff they would at best break even.

In 2009 and 2010 the Salary did not go down but Attendance did. Which is why they are now losing money because they can’t get people to go to the games.

All this financial issues are so easily pointed at madoff, But we all know now they MADE A PROFIT from Madoff. Madoff can have no affect on financials until such time as the judge rules they have to give money back.

It’s a nice excuse for the fans but the fans have to start realizing the financial situation has less to do with money mismanagment and everything to do with us Boycotting and refusing to go to games regularly.

And a 5-13 start to the season just exacerbated that situation.

I have said this since the ASB last year…
If we want them to keep the players we like and spend money on being competitive then we fans have to stand to our post and go to games to help pay for it.

madoff and fewer seats in a stadium might make things more difficult to manage for them but those are not the causes of the financial woes.

We have met the financial enemy and it is US!

They will cut salary to a break even point (about 100 Mil) which is why Beltran and K-Rod will go.

And thats because attendance is not high enough to pay the bills.

That is OUR fault not the fault of ownership!

And saying that we will be without a closer for 4 or 5 years is rediculous.
K-Rod isn’t the only closer on the planet. And Beato is being groomed to be the closer of the future once he gets the experience he needs.