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Mets Lose $70 Million in 2011, Attendance Down 7%
An article by Craig Lerner
According to a report in the New Yorker by Howard Megdal, the Mets losses for the 2011 season are estimated at $70 million dollars. Megdal also says that the Mets ownership will probably not approve a six figure deal for Reyes, saying that they would rather take the PR hit from the fans rather than risk putting themselves in deeper financial straits.
If the current ownership’s previous record is any indication, the PR hit they’ll take for letting Reyes walk means little to them compared to the prospect of running out of money and having to sell the team. Adding a commitment of roughly $20 million per year when they’re virtually at the end of their financial rope could still happen, of course. But given that Fred Wilpon’s and Saul Katz’s actions to this point have been designed to retain their ownership at the expense of their public reputation and the product on the field, it seems sadly probable that Jose Reyes’s single at-bat today will be his last for the team.
During the final game of the season, the Mets announced an attendance 28,816, giving them a final attendance total of 2,352,596 for the season. That’s a drop of about 7 percent from last year and represents their their lowest total since 2004, when they played at Shea Stadium.
I’d bet more than 15% of that paid attendance never made it to the games. Looking at all those empty seats during many homestands, it never really coincided with the paid attendance announcments after each game. I wish they would announce the turnstyle count instead or in addition to paid attendance.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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I wish Alderson would have spent just a few million more last offseason for a HEALTHY starter and made smarter decisions with his lesser role players. Who knows? an extra 7 million could have saved that 70 million lost because smarter off season moves could have helped keep the Mets in contention longer and it would be an entirely different story.
But that didn’t happen because as I’ve said before, in my opinion, Alderson felt the team would not have been a contender so he just made some token moves because he had already knew he was gonna dump key players (or salary…however you want to refer to it).
A few million extra could have gone a long way to saving millions more.
Not a good job by a GM and if I were the Owner I would have called this man into my office.
If I were the owner I’d fire myself.
If I were the owner I would’ve given he GM a little more wiggle room.He only gave him 5 million to fill 8 roster spots.We’re taling abt the Wilpons though.
Because the budget is the GM’s fault…?…I agree. Alderson should have spent that $7,000,000 he has in a shoebox under his bed to land the extra starter. You know what? Omar should have taken out HIS checkbook and given CC Sabathia a $200,000,000 contract to ensure we had him a few years back, too. Man, I hate it when a GM puts financial constraints on a team!
Drew you hate financial constraints…WOW kind of sounds like my ex…hey reality is tough.
Wow, there’s some positive info going into the offseason
Does that 70 M include the 50 M bond payment for Citi or is that in addition?
should include everything. The debt service on the park is a huge part of the overhead.
What about the extra revenue from SNY? Oh yeah we’re talking about the Wilpons.
Once again, as they say, “do the math.” Mets were lousy, yet drew 2.3 million fans, lost $70 million. Be a GOOD team, draw more fans, make money. They’ll decide Reyes isn’t worth the investment, huh…..
If My last name was Wilpon I’d pull my lip over my head and swallow !!!!
Did Fred Wilpon sign Boof Bonser, Chris Young, Brad Emaus, Pedro Beato, Taylor Bucholz, Chin Lung Hu, & give 2 years to DJ Carrasco? That’s some pretty bad judgement there.
Oliver Perez 12 million Luis Castillo 6 million Jason Bay 16 million. How much did the guys you mention cost again? And to single out Bucholtz who was actually pitching decent but has pshycological problems isn’t fair.
Obviously you misunderstood my response and/or missed my other ones with these names.
Those are Alderson’s signings just this year alone. Terrible start.
your answer has nothing to do with the subject. Those are bad contracts over many years which is for another argument another time.
And my point is who signed Bay, Castillo and Perez. These guys don’t use crystal balls but at least Alderson’s picks didn’t cost the team as much. Young was paid what a million? He got hurt but it was worth a shot, no worse than Kelvim Escobar.
If Bay had hit 30-120-.280 like he did and always has who would be complaining. Can you predict which free agents will have a complete career collapse so we can tell Alderson to stay away from them? Wasnt everyone praising Theo for Crawford last year? Chit happens.
I agree 100% but would you rather have expensive Chit that you come to regret or cut your losses on much less expensive chit. It’s not as if there was that one can’t miss free agent Alderson balked on. Same thing about the free agent crop coming. It’s thin.
I think it’s the job of the General Manager to predict which free agents will perform and which won’t. In fact, I think it’s their main job…could be wrong, though!
And to mediate a bit: Yes, some of Omar’s signings have contributed to the financial bind that the Mets are currently in, but it’s not the only thing and Omar did make a number of very good or great moves. And, no, I don’t think that you can say “see these 7 guys so-and-so signed to $1,000,000 contracts? He’s a bad GM” when the team’s payroll is over $100,000,000. That’s like going to the movies and dropping a quarter and blaming that dropped $0.25 for making the trip expensive. The bottom line: Omar’s not evil, Sandy’s not evil, and unfortunately there are things in life (like the Mets right now) that you can’t blame on a single person.
Great comment, you must be new here. I’m usually accustomed to reading black or white comments on Metsmerized without the possibility of an in between. Nice to see someone here who isn’t on one of the opposite ends of the spectrum.
I’m not new, just haven’t commented with the regularity I used to (I’ve been coming here since 2005 or 2006 and wrote for a brief stretch). It’s amazing how being a Mets fan is now like talking politics: You’re either an extremist supporter of one side (Omar) or an extremist supporter of the other side (Sandy) and a downturn has forced the middle ground to be almost non-existent (at least visually and vocally). Then, of course, you have the third-party supporters, those who see the X and Y axis and go an entirely different direction and believe that David Wright is the root of all evil and that Satan’s curse on the team will be cured when he is sacrificed. And, please, don’t start on the DW5 debate again…we’ve seen enough 200-comment blogs on that to know that everyone who supports him is a brainless idiot and that anyone opposed to him isn’t a real Mets fan.
Bay has not always hit .280 30 HR’s 120 RBI. He did hit the first two, four times in his six previous full seasons and had never hit 120 RBI even once.
In addition he has struck out 50% of the time he was in a two strike count. Doesn’t matter if it was 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, for his entire career before he came here he K’d 50% of the time he got two strikes on him.
That’s not the kind of guy you want to be the guy in an otherwise limited lineup.
Jason Bay from 05-09 averaged 31HR’s 103 RBI and a .279 average.
That’s exactly the kind of guy you want in ANY lineup.
Maniac stated that Bay had “always” hit .280 30 HR’s 120 RBI. (see above)
Facts are that Bay did not always hit .280 30 HR’s 120 RBI. He did hit .280 or better in four of his six full seasons and he also hit 30 or more HR’s in four of his six seasons but that’s not always. That’s more like most of the time and he never hit 120 RBI even once let alone “always.”
And that doesn’t even take into account the liklihood of him doing it with us, in a bigger park and at an older age.
Ok, so instead of .280 30 HR’s and 120 RBI, he got .280 30HR’s and 100 RBI.
And keep in mind that he played in some terrible lineups in pittsburgh, so averaging 103 RBI on those teams is very impressive.
Bayonne Met Fan…your comments are spot on. While I like Pedro, I think you should add Tankersly and O’Connor to the list. Cappy had a good year but his incentives brought his pay to 4 million not such a bargin.
Wait a second – so this article is Howard Megdal’s opinion of what the Wilpons would do and nothing else
Craig, are you trying to deflect blame from Alderson to Wilpon if Reyes isn’t signed? Is that what you’re trying to do here?
What if Alderson advises Wilpon that signing Reyes is the best course of action to take? Because he has other moves that will piggy back that signing and make it worth while. Of course the move i’m hinting at probably won’t happen
What about the money they make from SNY?
It may well offset the “losses” from the team, which is alot of creative accounting to begin with.
Hmmmmm…It’s almost as if having grossly incompetent owners has caused the franchise to suffer. Who knew?
Read it again, Howard Megdal is a major saber good and it’s his OPINION and not a news fact. Craig Lerner is a minor saber goon for this site. Put 2 and 2 together and you have people trying to pass the buck to Wilpon instead of Alderson if Reyes isn’t signed. This post by Lerner is simply not honest at all. It’s BS.
Has nothing to do with Reyes. A fish rots from its head. And the Wilpons are a rotten fish head. That’s why they lost all their money to a three card monte dealer. That’s why the Mets are a losing franchise, on the field, and as a business. It’s because the people in charge are incompetent.
As for Reyes, we’ve had him for NINE YEARS now. What have we won? Nothing? Well now we have to pay him 10 times more money to keep him. And you’re saying that we’re crazy if we don’t do that? Sorry, I don’t understand that logic.
And this post is nothing more than an opinion trying to point the blame at the GM with no evidence offered to back it up and in the face of all evidence that the public does have.
The Wilpon’s primary business, commercial real estate is in trouble Countrywide. To what degree their business is in trouble nobody knows. What we do know is that they woke up one day to find they had 500 M dollars less than they thought they had and someone was suing them for an additional billion dollars. This coincided with the commercial real estate funk and the bill coming due for Citi Field and SNY and attendance tanking at Citi Field. A confluence of events that would on the face of things would lend credence to the report by Megdal and Lerner.
In the absence of any kind of supporting evidence to the contrary offered by the poster and a well known hatred of all things sabermetric, who’s opinion should be considered credible and who’s should be filed under trash?
After all it’s the owner the GM works for, not the other way around.
The owner hires the GM to make baseball decisions. The GM proposes an idea to the owner and tells him this is what’s best for the franchise. The owner says okay Sandy it’s your call, i trust you, that’s what I hired you for, do it.
Unless you’re in that room when the decision is made it is VERY realistic that the decision to move Jose will be the GMs. In fact, that’s probably how it usually goes down for all clubs.
The owner also provides the parameters around which the GM must work.
For example, Minaya had to adhere to MLB’s slot recommendations while almost every other team ignored them. On the other hand committing to huge contracts was never an issue. Not in year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
That doesn’t appear to be the case here and no one, least of all yourself has offered even a sliver of evidence to the contrary.
The employee in every business always works within the parameters established by the owner or he becomes an ex-employee. The only exception to that is when there are absentee owners or the owner is himself running the show neither of which is the case here.
you are a sick man, a real piece of work
Can’t support your position so you fall back on childish insults. Typical buffoon move.
you’re just insane and there is no way to debate with an individual who is completely out of his mind. Nobody here knows you and nobody knows me, maybe you’ve been committed i don’t know
You’re just nuts.
Sorry to butt in, but shouldnt you be the one providing the evidence to the contrary?
Wilpon said more than a few times that Alderson had the same resources Minaya had and that if he wanted a big ticket item he would just come to them like Minaya did. They also said that they never said no to any free agent Minaya came to them with.
Where is the evidence that Wilpon backed down from that statement?
You yourself already stated the way it was from year 1 to year 6 of Minaya. And we have statements from Fred and Jeff that nothing has changed. What have you read and can you share it?
Alderson didnt spend last offseason but that was his choice and his modus operandi.
It’s really not Alderson’s modus operandi. Alderson went to 3 world Series with the Majors highest payroll.
The Wilpon’s have said numerous things through the years proven to either be untrue at the time or to change over time. Remember the whole Omar had autonomy thing?
The Wilpon’s also claimed that they had no financial issues to work through after Madoff and yet they had to go to MLB to secure a 25 M loan just to keep the operation running last year. They also claimed they would not need to take on a partner, a year later……
I also don’t recall ever hearing that Alderson had the same resources that Minaya had and from all accounts in the public domain, poor climate for their primary business, bond payments due for the stadium, attendance tanking, being sued for up to a billion dollars, debt service on the network, the loss of 500-700 million dollars they thought they had it certainly seems to coroberate the article in the New Yorker.
The only thing one can infer if Alderson himself chose to voluntarilly lower payroll is that he wanted to make things more difficult for himself. Why would he want to do that?
Do you think that after winning a World Series with the Majors largest payroll he now wanted to win one with the lowest?
Bayonne claimed the opinion of the writer was “BS.” It’s up to him to provide evidence to support HIS opinion
You’re a Liar. Here’s my post above and as any SANE person can see I did not say Megdal’s opinion is BS.
Wait a second – so this article is Howard Megdal’s opinion of what the Wilpons would do and nothing else
“Craig, are you trying to deflect blame from Alderson to Wilpon if Reyes isn’t signed? Is that what you’re trying to do here?
What if Alderson advises Wilpon that signing Reyes is the best course of action to take? Because he has other moves that will piggy back that signing and make it worth while. Of course the move i’m hinting at probably won’t happen”
mister not only is there something personally wrong with you and i mean that from the heart – but you’re a LIAR too
The article is about the Mets slashing payroll in order for the Wilpon’s to be able to avoid running out of money and having to sell the team. Megdal writes that the Wilpon’s would rather take the hit to their public reputations than to run the risk of running out of money and losing the team.
Your concerned that the potential loss of Jose Reyes would be blamed on the Wilpon’s and not Alderson when all evidence points to the fact that the Wilpon’s probably cannot afford to resign Reyes.
You don’t want the Wilpon’s taking the heat because of your oft stated dislike of Alderson so you claim it’s all “BS.”
Prove it’s BS. Prove they have the cash to resign Reyes or prove that Alderson wants Reyes out here because everything that Alderson has said indicates that he wants to resign Reyes but that the payroll has limitations. Limitations imposed by who? Alderson? Why would he impose limitations on the payroll in order to hinder himself?
As for lying you take the cake. Someone who won 5 divisions “never won anything” according to you but someone who won one Division did.
Your a complete hypocrite. Spinning, twisting, lying and supporting your opinion by childishly calling people names.
You said it was “BS” Give us a few reasons to back up your opinion.
What I do recall hearing is that Alderson has the opportunity to come to the Wilpon’s with anything that he would like to do and that they will evaluate it on a case by case basis on it’s merit but again, they said numerous times that they had no financial concerns…….and any statements made to the public don’t always reflect realities inside companies boardrooms and that only is more the case with the Mets, not less the case.
The eyes are always provide a better glimpse of reality than the ears anyway or do you believe that it was just as likely we would add payroll last July as subtract it?
I understand all of that, I was simply trying to say it was odd for you to ask Bayonne to provide evidence for his claim when most of the evidence in the domain supports what he says. I was asking you to provide evidence that the GM’s fiscal autonomy has changed because you seem to talk as if it’s a given when in fact there’s no evidence I know of that supports that, only conjecture and speculation.
All available evidence in the public domain points to the Wilpon’s being in a financial bind. All of the 5 reasons for this all occurred at exactly the same time. Coincidentally enough just when payroll started declining after 6 straight years of increases.
What evidence in the public domain indicates that Alderson could increase payroll at his discreation?
Did you check this public domain?
June 21, 2011
“He’ll have all the opportunity in the world to bring anybody he wants in,” team COO Jeff Wilpon said yesterday, without giving the GM carte blanche. The way for him to do that is to bring the ideas to us and we’ll talk about it. But he does not have restrictions.”
http://m.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/wilpon_won_hold_alderson_hostage_jOgKK0tVz99UJwxs162FkL
Do you have something that disputes that that isn’t speculation or conjecture?
Pretty much verbatim what I wrote. He’ll have all the opportunity in the world to bring us his ideas and then we’ll talk about them on a case by case basis.
To me that’s really no different than hearing car dealership commercials touting all applications accepted. Nothing about approved, just accepted.
Hey, Alderson went to three World Series with the Majors highest payroll. His owner, Walter Haas lost a ton of money every year but he didn’t care. Alderson was allowed to spend what he wanted. It wasn’t until Haas passed away that the new owners put restrictions on salary. Alderson responded by doing what he had to do. Meet the new budget.
Towards the end of the 2010 baseball season the Met owners approached Bud Selig for an emergency 25 million dollar loan, two months later Sandy Alderson left the employ of MLB to become the Met GM. Since that time most of what we have heard has been talk of slashing payroll, getting rid of contracts, attendance issues, the owners exposure in a billion dollar lawsuit against them and the 500-700 Million dollars lost in a ponzi scheme.
Seems reasonable reading between the lines that some of this has been behind the coincidental lowering of payroll and it’s quite reasonable to assume that Alderson may have substantially less to work with than his predesssor because certainly for baseball reasons, retaining Reyes would seem to make all the sense in the World.
It also seems a bit odd that all we’ve seen of Fred has been a few clips of him clowning around with Sandy Koufax is Spring Training and one quickie interview with Jeff on the first day of ST where he pretty much told everyone he couldn’t answer any questions. Other than Fred’s infamous magazine interview they’ve all been in hiding. Not even an end of the year press conference we’ve all become accustomed to on their own network.
Pretty much since Madoff hit all their public comments have been along the lines of everything is fine, nothing will change, no partners, we’re not selling, Omar had complete autonomy, but their actions have been very different from their public statements and again, where is there anything in that article or any other one that indicates Alderson can spend at HIS discreation?
He worked for years with an owner who lost tons of money. Didn’t hamper him one iota. Then he worked for an owner who made him slash payroll and keep the numbers in line.
Which of those two do you think most resembles the owner he works for now?
That $70 mil figure is rather old and been bandied about for several months. Moreover, attendance has been dismal and dropped off since the $70 mil was first mentioned. So I have to think the real loss is much larger than that. Of course there may be much much revenue accounted for by no-shows in those attendance figures. In that case, unless some real headway is made in the off-season to bring in improved players, next year’s attendance may be a lot worse and the financials could continue in a downtrend. Without a better team on the field, advance sales may start in the tank for 2012 and the death spiral may worsen. Then 2012 paid attendance may relfect the empty seats we saw in 2011 and the loss will be much greater than $70 mil. I do not feel any sense of comfort for the future about this team and its prospects with the Wilpons holding the money bags.
LMAO @ people who believe the Wilpons lost 70 million. They are the same collection of brain surgeons who believed the original Brooklyn Bridge for sale joke was reality.
Are you calling someone who writes for the New Yorker a liar? Keep laughing…..
If you believe the Mets are making money, you are on some wicked drugs. Where did you get your business degree at Acme State? If it’s not too late, I’d try and get a refund on the tuition.
If the Mets are losing money, Godzilla will be closing for them next year. The idea the Wilpons are losing money is a JOKE. They’re making money HAND OVER FIST on SNY. They’re earning money by the buckets @ the park. The sell job/sob story in the media has to be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
This is an ownership that has run this slashing payroll scam for years now. Whenever they miss the playoffs, out comes the machete as they slash away @ payroll.
Right. Like when we missed in 2007 they slashed payroll to fit in Santana and when we missed in 2008 they slashed it again to fit in K-Rod and Putz. Then when we missed the playoffs in 2009 they slashed it again to bring in Bay.
Not to say that they haven’t made numerous mid season moves to lower payroll via the salary dump but every off season it’s always been about increasing payroll. Mostly because it makes business sense to juice up ticket sales.
Wow, some SERIOUS, SERIOUS second guessing here.
I’d say this may be the WORST case of second guessing I’ve ever seen on this site. I actually cannot believe what I’m reading here.
Remember how as Mets fans we all were ecstatic when Minaya made that killer deal to get Santana.
Remember almost to a person how we ALL loved the K-Rod, Putz deals and how we all were impressed how Omar went out and fixed the bullpen issues from 2007. I also remember thinking what a good deal the Mets got K-Rod for..although I must admit that I was against getting him the year before.
The Bay move we more polarizing. But not the first two.
Of course things didn’t work out as we hoped but to sit here and read the things this crazy individual is putting out there is unbelievable. If that is not second guessing than second guessing does not exist anymore.
Hey, guys, pardon me. Would you mind (since you are all online viewing this thread right now anyway) having your conversation in the chat so I don’t receive 17 emails every 3 minutes telling me that there are 17 new posts in this thread? If not, fine. Just thought I’d ask nicely and hope.
Or at least go back to discussing the issues in this article and not having the same debate you’ve had on every blog post since Alderson made his first move a year ago.
I’d love to Drew but bayonne never never responds to the substance of what is written, he just responds to things people didn’t say or complains that said anything at all.
I learned a long time ago not to check that box.
No second guess here Mutton Head. No opinion was offered on how good the moves were. Just examples contradicting the previous posters opinion that we always slash payroll after missing the playoffs (see above) That’s not true. We added payroll. That was the reason for discussing Santana, K-Rod, Putz and Bay. Not the moves themselves, just the fact that we made them.
See this is what people mean when they talk about your not responding to what people actually wrote, instead preferring to respond to something they didn’t write.
Agee I don’t know what Bayonne was reading when responding to your post.Unreal!A little comprehension goes a long way.
It’s always that way with him Joe. The only time he ever responds to the substance of what someone writes is when he gets it all wrong. Usually he doesn’t even bother to comment on what anyone writes. He just complains that they did write.
The only defense he offers of a differing opinion is to call people names.
He drives a lot of people off the website with his juvenile antics but it keeps you young. Kind of like being in Jr. high School.
driving people off the website?
Much more people comment now than they did not too long ago – This site keeps getting BIGGER, not smaller.
No it doesn’t. There are plenty of people who used to comment regularly that have left and moved on. Scroll through the archives some day and you’ll remember all the names. Now there’s just a few left.
Even Joe D said the comments were way down.
That’s the way it is with pretty much every site, people come and go….
And I just quickly looked at the total number of commnets from around the time when the Mets signed Bay, and now there’s probably double, maybe even TRIPLE the amount of comments than there was at that time.
he probably pays certain people to post the way they do just to generate responses. Like listening to Francesca or watching a car wreck, you know you shouldn’t but you can’t help yourself. As if some people will ever respond to anything passing for a reasonable opinion.
These are where the lies come in. Or maybe you just don’t understand the point. Either way, you’re way off base and my guess is the lies. The Mets miss the playoffs and slash payroll? So when they spent all that money on Santana, Putz, K-Rod and Bay after missing the playoffs, that was slashing payroll? You’re so full of it, it’s coming out your ears.
XtreemIcon says:
September 27, 2011 at 7:25 pm
When did I get saddled with this clutch doesn’t exist thing? I thought you outgrew making up lies. Guess not.
XtreemIcon says: May 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t agree with it, either. I think clutch is immeasurable and doesn’t exist.
Bayonne Mets Fan says:
October 2, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I can type things that was either never actually said, or taken completely out of context and format it to look like an actual post.
now that’s a lie, not even a good attempt. Anybody can look for that and find out it’s not true conversely anybody can search your quote that I provide and prove it’s true.
It’s simple and if you can’t figure it out it’s quite telling, and you’re supposed to be one of those data guys so you should know how to do it.
All kidding aside, you’re really killing yourself here, your rep is taking a big time hit. That’s very weak and not even clever.
The point is, your quote of me doesn’t exist in the manner you present it, and I just showed how easy it is to fake it. I’ll do it again, watch:
Bayonne Mets Fan says:
October 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm
It’s so easy to fake quotes so it looks like a copied and posted post. Or, I can take one sentence out of what was probably several paragraphs and present it out of context.
It exists EXACTLY as worded. Period. Here’s your full post and Let the readers decide if they care:
“In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t agree with it, either. I think clutch is immeasurable and doesn’t exist. There are plate appearances where a hit means more than other plate appearances, where the outcome of the plate appearance can have a big effect on the game. That’s called high leverage. And that doesn’t discriminate by inning. Big plate appearances can happen at any time. I think late & close is a garbage stat. But apparently the guys who really know baseball love it. Which of course shows what they really know about baseball.”
You’re just a flat out loser who can take having his ass handed to him and you an t agee come across as couple dim wits and I think the readership is beginning to take notice regardless what they think of me and how I talk to people.
you guys are different, you’re just 2 crying imbeciles who both can’t take getting knocked on your asses.
So that’s the quote? That’s exactly 100% true. The guy who said that is really smart. “Clutch” is entirely random, in its instances and it measureability, yet you look at it like it defines a player. I’m so glad you posted that in it’s entirety. Makes you look like a fool.
This recluse clearly has WAY too much time on his hands.
Okay guys, let’s try something else. Everyone hold hands and join in…
“Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya…”
This coming for the guy who writes 11 novels a day listing 2,394 names per post and until recently were not separated into paragraphs. His long posts literally resemble a long printed out list of binary code.
May 26th 2011 12:31 pm buffoon writes
I just disagree with Steve Phillips on that, that’s all, he’s still my favorite GM.
::looks around::
you know, t agee is exactly right. I said that.
::shrugs shoulders:: lol
AHA! I was caught not agreeing with every single thing Steve Phillips did.
lol
The mets are a joke along with the red sox LOL.When you see all of those empty seats at mets games it’s hard not to lol.
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