YES or NO?

The fact it fluctuted due to contractual obligations and his usual purchase of fillers off the shitpile by a measly 10 Mil does not offset the fact that when he left they had a lower Salary and Mission Accomplished his job complete off to the next Team Liquidation!

Adding 7 million or whatever he added is not cutting which is what you claimed. You claimed he cut everywhere he’s been and you were exposed. Exposed by 3 dfferent people in one thread. Myself, SRT and Sane. That’s 3, inning over.

Too figgin predictable!

He got all those players and spent a grand total of 7 Mil and from this you wish to make the claim Sandy will spend money when there are no limitations placed on him!

Jeez I hope you never get caught in a paper bag you will die and we will have no one left to laugh at!

“They added Woody Williams, Dave Roberts, Darrel May, Mark Loretta and resigned Hoffman and Klesko in 2005 his 1st year”

And ALL of them total raised salary by 7 Mil total!

HAHAHAHA WoW he must a big spender!
I Bet when you want to impress a woman on how big a spender you are you take her to McDonalds and use only ONE by one get one free coupon to impress her!

ROFLMAO!

How the hell are the San Diego Padres worth $800 million?

Every knowledgeable source I go to says sports franchises, especially baseball, are probably the worst investment you can make.

Actually I was wrong. Moorad only bought 49% of the team in 2009. Principal owner John Moores is the one who ordered payroll to be slashed. Messy divorce for him too. Sandy hasn’t cut everywhere he’s been like you falsely claimed he was ordered to do so.

Traded for David Wells, Traded for current Met Chris Young, Traded 480K salary of Xavier Nady to us for 14.5 mil of Mike Cameron for 2 yrs, traded for Chan Ho Park and his 15 mil, traded for Vinny Castilla, Doug Mirabelli. Signed Mike Piazza, Doug Brocail and Shawn Estes. 13 other FA’s and trades for guys making 1 mill or less 2006 his 2nd year.

Traded for Milton Bradley, Josh Bard and Russell Branyon. Signed Greg Maddux 10 mil per 2 yrs, signed Marcus Giles, Brians little brother 3.25 mill, resigned Brian Giles 9 mil per. Only one arb raise Jake Peavy 2.5 mil to 4.7. 13 others signed or traded for 1 mil or less. 2007.

Signed Mike Barrett 3.5, Tad Iguchi 3.8, Randy Wolf 4.75, Traded for Jim Edmonds 8 mil. Arb raises, Peavy 4.7 to 6.5, Khalil Green, 2.25 to 4.5, Chris Young 600K to 2.6. 15 players signed or traded 1 mil or less. 2008.

The only year when payroll was slashed and no players were brought in with any salary was his last year there in 2009. Peavy 11 Mil from 6.5 in Arb, traded to Whitesox. Brian Giles retired saving 6.5 of 9.6 mil of his salary. Big salaries replaced by homegrown kids and prospects traded for.

B- We got Bay in his 30s. There’s something about players falling off in their 30s after signing a big contract. Boston had injury worries about Bay, which is why they were very weary in bringing him back. It seemed after he turned them down, it didn’t seem to faze them.

C- We have dealt with Boras clients before like, Carlos Beltran? I’m not worried about the Boras factor.

D- A sign & trade deal could happen in the offseason.

Your 46 in dog years right?

Can you prove where the increase went to and prove it went to someone Sandy signed as opposed to some player already under contract who had a built in raise or some player who came up for arbitration and Sandy had no choice but to pay it or lose him?

Thats the question I asked you and you have been running from it ever since!

So nothing that happened in the middle of his tenure counts right? Not in Metsies warped world. He raised payroll when he got there as you can see and raised it 3 years out of the first 4 until Jeff Moorad and partners bought a team they couldn’t afford and they cut it almost in half and then guess what Sandy left. You still have no answer for the top 5 payroll in Oakland cause all you spew is bullshit just like saying the Wilpons are flushed with cash is just more of your bullshit. Sooner or later you have to get tired of being exposed for a BS Artist. No one is buying your bullshit except maybe Joey. Nobody else is buying it.

If they lost money it makes no sense they would be sued!
Makes no sense!

An Owner who has spent plenty and whenever a GM requested it for over a decade and a half does not turn around and say NO MORE SPENDING, CUT PAYROLL to Pirate proportions!
Makes no sense!

A GM who has a history of cutting spending wherever he has gone regardless of if the Owner told him to or not as being the cause of the cuts?
MAKES PERFECT SENSE!

There is no way the Wilpons suddenly decided they’d no longer spend money on a team they’re desperately trying to hold onto. There is no way they’re tried to hand the GM some 50 million dollars over the off season and he said ‘no thanks’. When something doesn’t make sense, it’s usually b/c it isn’t true. Let me just finish up with from everything I’ve read, from many who did extensive digging on this subject, I’m convinced the Mets are broke.

Let’s see what happens with this team going forward.

Yep they made money!
Thats my point!
They obviously made more than they supposedly lost otherwise there would be no lawsuit just a reduction in what they could get back if Picard got all the money back!

So they MADE money not lost money!

They got sued because they made more money than they claim to have lost!
If they had not then there would have been no lawsuit at all just a statement of they lost less than they actually had listed on thier account!

They made at least 162 Million more than they lost which means they didn’t really lose money whan all is said and done!

Yes they might even get some more money back! But that kind of depends on is Picard gets all the other winners to fork over more money!
In the end they might not have to pay a penny so the worst case scenario is they broke even which is not losing money now is it?

Where exactly did you get the idea that they pulled all their multi millions out before Madoff was arrested? Holy Cahoots…..if that were really true I’d have to believe that billion dollar lawsuit would be justified.

I’d like to ask….are you getting your facts only from articles printed here on that whole fiasco? If yes, you might want to take a look around across the blog sphere on the many articles that were printed about the state of finances for the Mets.