Besides, where is the evidence that anyone is willing to go over 5 years with him?

The irrational hatred for a guy on November 1 is reaching new heights…….

Funny how YOU call someone out for not having an ounce of objectivity…….another one on the list of Hippocrates around here.

Now with the start of the Hot Stove begins the rumors and reports from the infamous “according to sources” that will have us reacting to them in varying degrees.

Welcome to another Hot Stove season.

“There’s little evidence the Mets would go over five years for Reyes, the very talented and beloved but injury-prone homegrown star. And that just isn’t likely to be good enough. Reyes is known to want to stay in Queens, but the cash-strapped Mets, who have spoken of cutting their payroll by $30-to-40 million just don’t seem very likely to be close to the high bigger.” ~ Jon Heyman, SI.com

VinnyB has a much better list of guys we could have gotten who got paid the same and did better than what we got!

Let me guess this is where you blame Wilpon for not doing any of that?

There are quite a few of us it’s just that we don’t write an article a day like those trying to make Sandy look good or making Wilpon excuses for setting the budget so low he can’t even keep the HOMEGROWN players everyone claims are so important to building a winning franchise!

It is said we can’t win WITH Reyes so don’t sign him…
If we can’t win with him what makes you think we can win without him?

And if we can’t win with him and win less without him how can you say Sandy is TRYING to win more games?

When is he trying for 2015?
Cause thats the earliest this DRAFT HOARD BUILD FROM WITHIN plan can succeed!
And Sandy won’t even be here by the time that happens if he gets rid of reyes, Wright and gets nothing to draw people into the seats!

Your right they didn’t spend on FAs that didn’t produce, It wasn’t their FA SPENDING that made them suck, They traded away their farm to get them (which you and Tag propose to do now like the Phillies)
That depleted their Farm NOT the signing of Free Agents that doesn’t cost them 3 or 4 players to get and at best costs only a bottom 10 pick in the first and second rounds.

You see this is the problem you have!
The Yankees didn’t BUILD their team they built a 4 player core! Cano is only a recent development of thiers and they have him because they STOPPED trading farm wholesale to get guys they can BUY and not have to give up players for!

They have been buying ever since and mostly pitching and are even willing to pay CC more than 25 Milo per season…

Something you would never do because you think the Pirates are a force to be dealt with in the MLB!

And its not like they spent a few years being crappy after spending too much on free agents that didn’t produce. Gene Michael certainly didn’t spend a few years acquiring and developing young talent that ended up either playing for the team or traded to bring in valuable players (Roberto Kelly, Alfonso Soriano).

Yes, baseball history began in 1996. And you don’t at all look like a fanboy shill that writes worse than Heyman.

I would say it worked out pretty well!

And if you think this ploy has never been tried before, I’d love to start negotiating some deals with you.

And in other news Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead.

“Hiring this crew may could prove to be a major disaster.”

I believe in the military, that is referred to as SNAFU.

“Oh My God”

Don’t bother calling Him for help. He gave up on us long ago.

“i never thought I would ever see an intentional attempt to not compete at this level”

Well ,you’re obviously new to baseball and haven’t seen too much of it.

“I just wish the owners hired a baseball oriented GM that wanted to try an win with whatever financial constraints they were given.”

That is exactly what they are trying to do. You just equate spending with winning.

“You can try and win with whatever money you have and build at the same time.”

You can’t do both when you’re not built to do either. Everyone keeps saying “Why not do both at the same time?” Mainly because you have to be good at one before you can pick up that second attribute.

“Any professional baseball general manager can try and do that.”

Any professional baseball general manager can go cutting checks to the biggest name out there. How has that worked out so far?

“Just the Mets luck they get a GM who does not, instead they get a GM who does not care to compete while trying to fool the fan base that they’re waiting for the kids.”

And that’s worse than trying to fool us into think Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez and Jason Bay were the keys to the World Series? Because that was a horrible sham. The sad part is there are still morons who go around trying to sell it to us.

“I hate this front office and I wish we had a different one. It’s as simple as that.”

Yup, simple definitely applies here.