The truth is, players don’t have to understand or like any stat. They just have to produce them.

“I can understand you not knowing. That’s okay. oh btw since you and ‘any’ always like to talk about other people’s money have you donated any money to the site yourself? Considering all the time you spend here. I have.”

What a coincidence. Alex calls out Kay questioning her donation, and Bayonne is doing the same?

You know why George Steinbrenner was a great philanthropist? Because he never bragged about the donations he made. When you call people out to try and challenge them simply because you know you donated, all you do is appear to be a petty person who is only donating money so that they can reserve their spot on the site to say the most dumb things imaginable.

Quit trying to justify your ridiculous opinions by opening your wallet and then questioning others intentions to do the same. It doesn’t do the site any good, it makes the site look like a club membership and it makes you look like an idiot.

LASTLY, BACK TO THAT OLD GASHOUSE GANG SAYING TINKERS TO…
TAKE ALL OF THE COMBOS WE FIELDED @ SS & 2B & CONFIGURE THE ACCURATE DP COMBINATION OF PLAYERS USED @ SS,2B & 1B(DAVIS,DUDA,EVANS,ETC. QUITE INTERESTING, NO?

ARE U DIZZY YET? NO, PERHAPS DAFFY?

THE “GANG” REFERENCE STOPS THERE.

And with the bullpen, we could have added a pitcher(or two) there to help us out.

The Cards only won 90 games, so if you had full seasons from Ike, Wright, Beltran, K-Rod, and added a good pitcher at the deadline, the Mets COULD have done it – I’m not saying the WOULD do it, but I don’t see how you can say it would be impossible for them to do.

They cost themselves so many runs with their baserunning mistakes that no good team makes.I mean all teams make bonehed plays but not on the level the Mets make them.

I took into account that Johan was out for the season.Despite all the reports I knew he wasn’t pitching.

No pitcher has ever fully recovered from the type of surgery Johan had. Even Wang took 2 years to get back and he didn’t have a full incision when he was operated on.

Going into spring training I never for one minute thought the Mets would even play 500 ball let alone contend.

We had no idea if Beltran could stay on the field after missing all but 5 spring games.Bay didn’t hit for any power in spring,Wright looked bad until the final week and the bullpen was patched together with retreads.

Alderson had to decide to either keep Beltran and risk getting nothing back for the possibility of staying in the race which they proved time and again every time they went on a modest win streak they turned around and lost 5 straight.

I thought he did a phenominal job getting one of the top pitching prospects for a guy who’s knees could go out at any time and was unable due to his contract to net us any picks.It turned out Beltran sprained his wrist on a swing and went on the DL.

Trading K-Rod was all about getting out from that ridiculous option that the moron Omar gave him.17.5 million for 55 games finished.

Mariano doesn’t make that much and not to mention the Mets blew 17 games in which they lead after 6 innings with K-Rod on the team so that proves right there they weren’t good enough to compete with St Louis.

Des no disrespects but Ruben is better than mediocre at 2B.maybe at SS he needs to improve which is his natural position but at 2B he has flourished defensively and he even made huge strides offensively.No he is not in Andrus class and probably doesn’t have Andrus range but the Mets can win if Reyes is retained he Ruben becomes the everyday SS.As long as he hits as well as he did when he was recalled which remains to be seen.

The Mets haave 3 excellent defenders in Reyes,Ike and Tejada.Wright has fallen off a cliff with his glove,Bay is a very good LF’er,Pagan is better than he showed last year and Duda is a disaster.Thole is not a MLB catcher so basically even if Reyes is back we have a very weak defensive team.

I laugh it off. We’re all Met fans equally frustrated, but for different reasons based on our differing views.

Sandy appears to have the right idea, but no doubt the growing pains will be felt more intensely, at times.

The groundswell of young arms coming up from the Farm provide the best reason for optimism. The ’69 Mets were loaded with young arms and the game’s best defensive catcher and centerfielder. That’s how you win a championship with a team that batted .242 collectively.

I digress, but that’s what puts me on the fence with David Wright & Jose Reyes. Wright theoretically could net us Colorado’s Drew Pomeranz & Wilin Rosario, & Reyes could yield a first-round pick w/a supplemental pick. We wouldn’t then have to worry about our marquis player going down at a critical moment in the season, among other issues.

I guess we’ll soon find out one way or the other.

I’ll not insult Ruben, but he is not a person who can more than fill a hole temporarily in our lineup. He makes contact at the bat but he has no power so most of his hits are equivalent to a BB. We need more than that.

By the way, I know you like to bash numbers, but you ought to look at where Ruben stands from an objective position. He’s mediocre with some limited upside. If he plays a lot of games, it’s just an indication of the Mets mediocrity.

Look at his numbers. He is really ordinary. No amount of rose colored glasses will make him a Reyes or a Tulo. He has no muscles and no speed.

Those are 2 unrelated situations. What do you mean 3rd or 4th place? Mets can finish there with your boy from Texas there too. IF there’s no Ruben OR Reyes and you put Elvis at SS for the Mets they’re still going finish down in the standings and still need work.

Did you go through your entire life with your eyes closed? I can’t help but be stunned at how stupid you are for a man or your age.

I don’t think if the Mets have 5 years of mediocrity coming it will be solely on the SS. Are you that dumb? What is wrong with you. You hate that you lost so much? I think that’s what it is, you lost.

And why do you call me a whiner? You’re the one that keeps bringing this topic up when I know people are tired of reading about it. You keep asking for it?

Old man, take a geritol, put your teeth in a glass of water and go to sleep already cuz it’s time to move on.