PERSONALLY, I’D NEVER EXPECT TC TO EVEBN THINK CHEEZY, LET ALONE CONSIDER IT, U MAY HAVE NOTED HE WAS ASKED BY A REPORTER DURING THE POST IF HE’D CONSIDERED SUCH A MOVE(REMOVING JOSE FROM FIELD @ SS). AFTER SEEMINGLY LOOKING AT THE INQUISITOR AS IF HE WAS EITHER A CHILD OR A MARTIAN, TC RESPONDED NEGATIVELY IN A MANNER AS TO SAY “WHY IN HELL WOULD I DO SUCH AN EXTRORDINARY THING?
MOST OF U SEEM TO KEEP FORGETTING THAT NEITHER SANDY,PAUL, JP OR TC WERE MORE THAN BARELY AWARE OF THE HAPPENINGS IN FLIUSHING SINCE ’07. NONE WERE NYM FANS OR LIKELY EVEN VIEWED A MET GAME BEFORE THIS SEASON. IT’S NOT AS IF THEY EVER ANTICIPATED GETTING INVOLVED HERE.

SIMILARLY, I DO NOT BELIEVE ALDERSON WOULD BE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO LEAD THE FANBASE ON Re REYES INVOLVMENT. IF HE WASN’T PREPAERED TO MAKE A COMPETITIVE OFFER. HE’S NOT A FOOL BY ANY MEANS & OBVIOUSLY KNOWS IT’S A 100M RANGE TOTAL PKG JUST AS IN HIS NY POST INTERVIEW HE RATHER HONESTLY DEPICTED THE ’12 PAYROLL @ BET 100 & 110M A NUMBER WELL WITHIN THE RANGE TO ACCOMODATE RETAINING REYES PLUS MODEST UPGRADES SIOMILAR TO LAST OFFSEASON SINCE PRESENTLY THE 6(SANTANA,BAY,WRIGHT,DICKEY,CARASCO,BYRDAK) CURRENTLY CONTRACTED COMMITMENTS TOTAL $61,650,000. ALLOWING FOR ARBITRATION SETTLEMENTS TO PAGAN & PELFREY, AS WELL AS 2.75M IN MiLB MINIMUMS TO COMPLETE THE 25(TEJADA, TURNER, PRIDIE, DUDA, MURPHY, THOLE, NICKEAS, GEE, NIESE, PARNELL) COMPLETING HIS CURRENT ESTIMATE OF 75M PRESENTLY ACCOUNTED FOR THE ANTICIPATED RANGE FOR REYES BEING BETWEEN 20-25M CERTAINLY IS ACCOMODATABLE.

IT CERTAINLY SHOULD BE NOTED THAT (5 OF 8) OF THIS YEAR’S PLAYOFF CONTENDERS HAD PAYROLLS LESS THAN 100M.(TB-71M,TX-55M,STL-93M,ARI-61M,MIL-81M) NB 3 OF 4 NL(PHL-142M SOLE EXCEPTION)
TEAM PAYROLL’S ARE TYPUICALLY REFERRED TO AS EITHER BIG MARKET OR SMALL MARKET DIVIDES; HOWEVER THAT SIMPLISTIC 2 CATEGORIES DOESN’T EXIST AS BEGINNING THIS SEASON 26% HAD TOP PAYROLLS EXCEEDING 100M, 33% MID-RANGE PAYROLLS BETWEEN 80 & 100M WITH THE BOTTOM 40% BELOW 72M. OUT OF THIS LOWEST RANGE AS EMERGED 3 OF THIS YEAR’S PLAYOFF PARTICIPANTS TAMPA,ARIZONA & TEXAS AS NOTED ABOVE. 2(STL,MIL) EMERGED FROM THE MID-RANGE GROUP & 3(NYY,PHL,DET) FROM THE UBERSPENDING CONTINGENT

You need to use your free agent bucks to fill a true need.

Now if you got Pujols and put Ike in right (I hear he’s a pretty solid outfileder since he has a great arm) and put duda in left this might work.

you can non-tender Pelf and trade bay to boston for Lackey (swapping bad conracts) to ease the logjam in the outfield.

USA today actually shows the Mets at 118 for 2011. Not sure how they calculate (there are a lot of different ways for different purposes). CBS sportsline said opening day was about 120mill.

so 110 is not really much of a drop then. Look at it as subtracting Ollie’s salary, and having change left over!

We certainly won’t be cooking with a lot of gas if we do manage to re-sign Reyes.