What a mutton head.

Even better than that an intellectually dishonest mutton head.

The worst type of mutton head.

And obviously you already know i’m not saying Minaya was better than Cashen that’s you just being a wise ass.

And since Cashen took 4 years to make the playoffs, are you saying Minaya was a better GM than Cashen?

You are also as bad a front runner that I’ve ever seen you make Dick Vitale look humble.

You are an unapologetic phony that rambles on here everyday with a million names. You’re not a fair person in the least bit. You have an answer for everything, even the day after your Braves COLLAPSED worse than the Mets ever did you’re hear on this Mets blog posting your LOVE for the Braves and how they operate and second guessing all of Minaya’s moves EVEN THOUGH the Mets collapse and Braves collapse happened ON THE FIELD and there’s nothing you can do about it.
You’re such an excuse maker that you have to have the last word on every post you ever address with anyone and that tells a lot.

Besides that i just think you’re a nut case that has lots of time on his hands to write those manifestos every day.

Now why dont’ you go back and learn about the Cardinals minor league system so you can come back here in a few days and tell us all how they did it since you ALWAYS have all the answers to every team’s success, right there in your apartment.

You are nothing but a mutton head.

A mutton head and a jackass.

a nelgas de mula.

I guess I slept through the World Series parade

Over sixty guys not good enough to catch on the following year with Houston, KC, Pittsburgh, Washington, Oakland, Baltimore or anyone else. Over 60 and counting. And that’s not even counting guys like Omir Santos or Robinson Cancel who played a couple of games each or Oliver Perez who’s trying to get back.

Even a lot of our AAA depth was waived from the minors by other teams. Turner, Pridie, Sullivan, Dusty Owens, Feliciano, Hessman, many of it by the Orioles. Now Omar wasn’t really here long enough to have developed a real good upper minor league system and anyone who could have, and should have been there was rushed up to the Majors but still does that indicate the readiness of a team to go blowing 1st and 2nd round draft choices left and right? Trading prospects and useful players off the Major league roster? To bring in who? Brandon Knight? Chan Ho Park? Brian Lawrence?

Way WAY too many of those guys through the years for a competitive club to have on it’s roster.

We just didn’t have the horses, unless everything went right which rarely happens) That simple.

So you shut up jackass.

I’m not here to compare who cost what because i would not be surprised if better players at comparable costs to the guys i mentioned were picked up by other teams.
And if that’s the case then Alderson also showed bad judgement and showed him and his cronies were not good at making evaluations either. And that can be even MORE frightening than anything else.

So let’s leave money that does not belong to you or me out of it.

Come talk to me when/if Alderson does that. In the meantime Alderson is off to an AWFUL START as far as the off season has gone.

Omar Minaya has WON with the New York Mets. Let that sink in.

And the collapses of 2007 and 2008 are NO DIFFERENT then the collapse of YOUR BRAVES this year – which was actually WORSE.

So SHUT IT!

of course here comes a 798 paragraph response listing 3,521 names filled with second guessing and excuses. that nobody will read

All from just 2005 and only guys that actually made it up here, despite having the ability to commit at least 250 million dollars in his first off season.

Sure the REASON is because the farm had been wiped out. Anyone with a brain in their head understands that but teams that are loaded in the minors rarely feel the need to fire their existing GM. These sorts of moves are the things most first year GM’s have to do but to me it indicates that we didn’t have the horses either in the Majors or the minors to support an extended run at the playoffs and a lot of subsequent go for broke moves, which in fact turned out to be exactly the case.

The proof of that is Minaya’s 2nd year was his best. By far. It wasn’t even until the playoffs that guys started dropping like flies. The following two years they started falling off almost right away which caused way too many guys like you see listed above playing way too many games down the stretch and even before.

Teams with guys like this on it shouldn’t be forking over #1, #2 and #3 draft choices or trading good useful players like Endy Chavez and Joe Smith ALONG with prospects to fill one need.

The team that Omar took over just didn’t have enough to support a six year run. By the time the big free agent was finished there was no one closing in. Maybe Ike. That’s it, one guy. Talk about Havens and Fern all you want and I’ll agree with you to some extent but everyone understands that prospects aren’t sure things. That’s why you need more of them, not less. There were guys like this on every single one of Omar’s teams and because of injuries, which are far more prevelent in older players, caused way too many of them to play far too key a role especially in September.

Both of those lists are reason enough to understand that more talent, and properly developed at that, is required to sustain a good long run that has a great liklihood of winning a World Series or two.

If we don’t already have a couple guys better than those 2, we’re in way more trouble than I thought.

Who do you want to spend money on? someone who plays one of the few positions we are secure at (1B)? A 30 year old pitcher? A player to compete at 2B?

“he was brought here to save $, not to build a championship,”

Yes, Selig sent him here to make the NL team of the biggest market in the world into a $50 million club. that is exactly what the guy who cranks himself to TV ratings and merchandise sales and revenue streams every night wants.

and you need a high profile guy to cut and run on payroll. like they couldn’t just tell Ricco to not sign anyone ever again. They needed Alderson and 2 more assistants. and the best way to cut payroll is to increase your staff.

Do you ever just stop and think: Is what I’m saying making sense?

Because you should.