I cannot recall any other team that was ever in contention that had ownership stab the players and fans in the back instead of supporting them.

And, as you point out, there is so much money being made by owners with television and merchandising that the outrageous salaries players make today is indeed affordable. Same with the Mets in the biggest market in the world. The Madoff scandal is only a part of what got the Wilpons into this mess — as stated before, they counted on less fans in a smaller ballpark spending more money each game. But they instead put themselves in a hole in their belief that the average Met fan would pay through his or her nose to see a game. It backfired on them badly and I am sure one reason is that many who sit in the upper deck resent being treated as second class citizens compared to the preferential treatment given to those who will pay more than $150 a ticket. Ever go looking for a restroom in the upper promenade?

As I’ve said since they got the city of Miami to agree to the deal, the Miami Hurricanes baseball team will be loving their new stadium in a few years.

As Met fans, we need to accept that until our financial situation improves that we are not going to be a playoff team. The Wilpon’s won’t sell unless they are forced too by MLB and that will happen only if they are further burdened by the Madoff scandal lawsuits. The team is being rebuilt as it should be by getting rid of bad contracts that are due to poor performance and injury history. Selling a cream puff car is easy…but selling a lemon is not.

It will take another year or so before we hopefully see the fruits of the trades and growth of our young minor league pitching stars. It is unrealistic to think that we will be competitive now in 2012. it is furthermore foolish to bash the efforts that had to be taken to redirect this organization. Yes, we would love to see the team sold and big money be available to sign free agents but unless the team is forced to be sold…..it ain’t gonna happen!

You can’t even think for yourself but no need to when you’ve thrown all your eggs in one basket for your Lord, the Grand Omnipotent Sandy and anybody who questions him or throws out other ideas is completely out of line.

And I guess you’re another one who somehow ignores the fact that the Mets have had PLENTY of chances to go to the WOrld Series in your “25 years” and simply have LOST BIG GAMES under several GMs. So stop with your excuse making.

A- Marlins are owned by Jeffery Loria, quick tempered and spontaneously unpredictable combined with:

B- Ozzie Guillen, famously quick tempered and good for at least a half dozen spicy comments per week to go along with:

C- Hanley Ramirez, he of the maturity problems who shows up late for team meetings, fails to hustle, and probably does not like the idea of playing 3B to give way to his good pal Jose Reyes, to which you add:

D- Carlos Zambrano, he of the leagues worst temper who likes to fight his own teammates on the field or in the dugout and calls his own team a AAA squad all the while pitching like a AA pitcher himself.

The way I see it, the Marlins are sitting on a powder keg down there in South Beach and it seems like the fuse gets shorter and shorter by the transaction. Sooner or later Loria and Guillen are going to get into it over something one or the other says in the media, who knows exactly how Ramirez will act/perform when moved to 3B, and Zambrano, well, he’s Zambrano so it’ll be interesting to see if Guillen is able to reign in his temper at all.

Taking risks sure has worked for the past 25 years huh? How are they even going to take risks when they don’t have a damn dollar to risk right now?

Oh yeah, sign Henry Blanco……..that would bring a title back………

Another GM running the this show who was more baseball minded (ANY GM should be able to work with a low budget) could have made much better moves than Alderson. Your kind of defeatist and second guesser’s attitude is all you are capable of because srt and any are practically one and the same with all these little after-the-fact safe assumptions. The new GM fits it quite well with your after-the-fact type of thinking.

Winners don’t fold and cry in the face of adversity, they work and think HARDER. Me and a few others have laid out several different types of very realistic scenarios already that could have been taken. And it’s a shame too cuz we have plenty of people here who have studied the minors and know them quite well (including MMO’s #1 Second Guesser of all time – t agee) and i think jesshup is a big minor league guy..and pete. All these people could have come up with many alternative types of scenarios using minor leaguers in trades..but no.

They and people like you all have decided not to think for themselves and let Sandy do the thinking for you