I’m not going to pass judgment on those of you who feel the need to do this. But as a die hard fan going back to ’68, I’ve followed this team through some pretty dark years. Logistically, it’s difficult for me to attend games but since the advent of SNY, I’ve watched all but 1-2 games every season. And I’ll be doing the same next season as well, even though we’re likely to end up finishing last in the NL east.

It’s baseball, it’s my team. In my opinion, bad NY Met baseball is still better than no NY Met baseball.

I think it is going to take a lot more cutting than down to 100 Mil to solve their financial issues. Especially if they are doing at the expense of Wright and/or Reyes.

The Target payroll Sandy mentioned includes money for signing draftees. So the 100-110 Mil is actualy 85-95m for MLB talent.

They had a 140m Payroll and lost half that due to attendance.
So they aren’t solving anything unless they don’t spend a dime and don’t lose attendance while doing so!
The attendance last year supported a 70m Payroll and they are as I said at around 66-67m without Reyes!
They will lose any attendance from Reyes which means they didn’t solve the money losing just reduced how much they lose with no chance to FIX the problem without spending money current attendance can not support!

In the end they will simply have to spend their way out of it and hope the fans buy into the purchases.

If that offer never comes then they will have a hard time explaining the refusal!

If by some Miracle Reyes resigns Tejada and Murphy will platoon at 2B (Pending a healthy Murphy). They will take offers for Murp but it actually makes much more sense to hold onto him until the Wright situation is sorted out.

Especially if we keep Reyes he is going to be more likely to trade Wright to get the Salary he doesn’t want to spend on Reyes.

Doing so would make Murphy our 3B in 2013!

The waiting game continues but should be settled before Christmas!

Sandy leads Reyes in the “I Don’t want to negotiate right now” by a score of 2-1!
Sandy passed last off season and this offseason.
Reyes passed only DURING the season!

Thems the facts and I can prove it because Donal posted the opposite and we all know he is truth adverse!

The facts are out there. Last year the Mets payroll went down 10 million. We were told that that 10 mil was going to be used during the season to invest in players we would trade for.

It didn’t happen.

For two years now, the press has been talking about the tens of millions of dollars that were coming off the books that the Mets would re-invest in the team.

That ain’t happening.

We are in the number one baseball market in the world – that’s a fact.

Wilpon hired Sandy who has a ton of experience running small market teams and a reputation built on being the first GM to embrace Moneyball. He was Billy Beane’s mentor.

What is not a fact but a real fear is that Sandy is here to break the Mets up so as to get a better profit margin for Fred so he can keep the club. I agree that once Sandy gets the payroll under 100 million his job is done and he will move on.

The foundation of this mess is that Fred got a bit greedy with a sure-fire investment return and was in turn hoodwinked.

His problem became our problem.

I’m not trying to criticize the fans who believe the team is heading in the right direction.

I just don’t buy it.

” why is it ok for sandy to negotiate with reyes whenever he wants and is not ok for reyes to do the same!”

I have no issue with Reyes trying to put himself in a position of greatest leverage. Why is it wrong for the Mets to do the same?

Reyes could have negotiated when the Mets wanted to, but he decided to work from a position of strength, which is his right.

Unlike certain parties, I try to avoid double standards.

carefull bro, nimmo is the answer to our prayers.. or so say some sandy lover’s in this blog… the man hit 211 and NOONE even mention him after articles were written about how GREAT this pick up was…