I’ve also stated how hamstrung Minaya was with some of the Mets internal issues and how they may have effected some of his decisions but ultimately he was the expert. he was hired to run the show and He was the one who would have known best how he was going to run out of players if everything didn’t work out the best way possible.

He would have known the pitfalls of rushing guys up here both in production and development and he also would have known the pitfalls on counting on 16 year olds to form the 2nd wave and provide most of the true all around talent for subsequent teams or spending a #1 pick on a 40 year old OFer or giving a 4 year deal to Castillo and he knew better with Perez, that’s why he went after Lowe but the signed him anyway and on and on.

He made the decisions he did and increasingly every year they became more and more slanted toward only this year and that has had a direct influence on our immediate future and didn’t produce the desired results in the short term either.

It was his baby, He was the archetect. He took a lot of chances and it didn’t work.

Ya, we know. that is why your opinion is never taken seriously.

Right – Like with Omar. You can’t blame him for everything. You can say the same thing Brady said about the SB loss, about our 06-08 teams. Everyone on those teams could have done one more thing that would have made a difference..

Right after the super Bowl Tom Brady said that “everyone in the locker room knows that there was one more thing that everyone on the team could have done that would have made a difference.” and he’s right.

People can blame all of 2007 on Glavine’s last start if they want but that was only one game out of 162. Does one game out weigh all the other combined? The Mets played uninspired baseball for two solid months that year. June and July both they lost more than they won. Delgado had a terrible 1st half of the season. He couldn’t have had one more hit in game 23 or 57 that wouldn’t have made a difference?

People can also blame the entire 2008 season on Wright not driving in Murphy with a SAC fly in game 157 but he led the Majors in SAC Fly’s that year. No one else could have driven in a run? The Mets played uninspired baseball for 2 consecutive months that year as well. Under .500 in both May and June. Once again Delgado had a terrible 1st half. No one could have done just a little more that would have made the difference?

Bottom line is without Wright’s .325/.416/.546 in 2007 Mets are eliminated by mid September and without his .302/.390/.534 their eliminated mid September in 2008 as well.

124 RBI both season too. All of them completely meaningless and all of them collected in the 2nd inning of blowout loses right?

Welker could have caught that ball but Brady could have looked off the safety too and put it in a better spot too and if hadn’t been for Welker they don’t make the playoffs anyway so how you gonna win the Super Bowl if you don’t make the playoffs?

Further more Brady didn’t have to chuck one up for grabs way down field with the game seemingly under control. Brady could have completed more than 40% of his passes over 10 yards. Wilfork could have shown up. The guy who was the 12th guy on the field when Cruz fumbled could have stayed on the bench and Tuck could have been controlled better and the O line in general could have put the Giant D line on the ground to open up more passing lanes plus the Pat’s could have done just a little more in the regular season game against the Giants and they wouldn’t have even been in the playoffs.

To blame just one guy or one play for the loss of an entire season is loser talk.

Lets just for a second ASSUME all these kiddie WHAT IF’s are right?
In the same vain as saying taking 5 steps is 5 steps in the right direction….

If the team you made is three steps worse than the team you had…
How far BEHIND are you if you get the SAME from the what ifs?
How much further AHEAD were you with a better starting 25 than you are now with a worse starting 25?

WHERE you start determines how far you MIGHT get if all your WHAT IFs are true!
Start Further back and whatever you think MIGHT happen is less than if you started from where you WERE before you took those steps back!

EVEN in the case where only 3 of your What Ifs pan out from where you were, your still closer to the goal than you were by taking 3 steps back and getting all that HOPFUL WHAT IF your counting on!

THATS what I’m saying!

When you start off going in the wrong direction in the hopes of what if will make up for it, even if it DOES you still lost those backward steps from the end result!
Because if you could get 8 steps forward going two steps back you lost two steps compared to where you would have been if you didn’t step back!

As for the sacrifices those guys make? Unmatched.

LOL you picked the wrong guy to talk about helping veterans and what the government does AFTER they come home…

Go to familiesofwarvets.org I’m on the board of directors for that group!

But while they are IN the army the military doesn’t just STOP USING trained and experienced Vets due to some fear they might get hurt and as a result be less effective!

Neither do they get rid of them because they get paid more than some kid just out of boot!

But your free to believe in any fantasy you want!

because we live in the home of the free BECAUSE of the Brave!

Also I can give you some links on keyboard replacements as well as typing 101. I am a teacher of course and can get you some tutoring in when to use capitals and when not to. Perhaps it’s just that you have your left finger a little too tight on the keyboard? Maybe you are pressing the caps lock button instead of the shift key. Try gaining a little more flexibility in that left pinky.