But the truth is if your not sure of what you think you should not post or comment on things your unsure of!

Wow…. THE CORE…..

If a Hater is anyone who doesn’t like or criticizes Sandy’s moves…
Then a Slurper would be someone who likes and defends those moves…

Wear the shoe that fits I suppose.

Just as I explained to Jessup yesterday regarding Moneyballers

If you think Moneyball can work, is a good idea in any case you can think of, and was successful when used previously,… your a Moneyballer!

Now you shouldn’t be insulted by that label unless you don’t fit those parameters and if you do you should be proud of being associated with what you believe!

The only reason to be insulted is if your ashamed of your beliefs, Or if they are NOT what you believe in which case if your arguing against your own beliefs proving your just here to be argumentative and posting to be contrary not actually posting to discuss what you believe!

Arguing with people you actually agree with for some undetermined reason.

He pretty much told it like it was and made the telling even more entertaining than the game!

In fact his best interviews were after losses not wins!

You seem to be trying to say our problems were predicted by us but here are some things about that prediction (BTW I was not one of the 100 loss predictors) that were wrong…

1 – It was predicated on Duda doing what he did last year, we got less!
2 – It was predicated on Ike Davis picking up where he left off, We got more games, more HRs but Less in the Average! And that hurt the GOOD half of our season!
3 – It was predicated on Murphy being a disaster at 2B, we got more!
4 – It was predicated on David Wright being Wright from last year, We got more!
5 – It was predicated on Scott Hairston being a .235 hitter again, We got More!
6 – It was predicated on Dickey being like last year, We got MORE!
7 – It was predictated on Santana not being effective and healthy, He was effective until he got unhealthy!
8 – Kirk, Valdespin, Baxter, Edgin, were not factored in, We got more from them when we won, Less and then we Lost.
9 – Quintanilla was not involved in the calculation.

Are they actually as Bad as we predicted? NO!
We got MORE from a lot of players and even the few that gave us less did not affect the ability of what we had to win!

If everyone plays to what they are capable of we are not out of this race!

It was the additions we added to last year’s team that cost us the most!

The lack of hitting, fielding and baserunning of Torres…
That Horribly “good day” bullpen costing us games wholesale
The ignorance of looking for LHH to come off the bench when the only two decent hitting RHB are Tejada and Wright! Our LIneup vs Lefties consists of all RH role players not our Regulars!
The Ignorance of going into a season with only one lefty in the pen and having to pitch him until his arm came off!
The Ignorance of having only two REAL OFers both of whom can’t hit a lick because we traded one who seems to field just as well as Torres (only hits 40 points higher) FOR Torres and a BP arm that can only help your team if he pitches for the opposition!

Truth is this team is actually MUCH BETTER than anyone thought, could have been even better if we were not trying to be Tampa Bay and purge all the performers and if it had just gotten a little help (Don’t ask who thats Sandy’s job to determine) it could still be in the race today!

Maybe starting Harvey in the first start Gee was replaced instead of Batista and Hefner would have stopped the slide, and turned that losing streak around!
Maybe not rehabbing Ramirez and Bay two games in the minors coming off injury and then rushing them back onto a roster they shouldn’t be on would have meant we had that extra bat and BP spot to add that lefty arm and maybe they win another game or two during that time.
Maybe if our FO doesn’t go on Radio and TV and say I GIVE UP, SEASON DONE the players themselves would think there is still something worth fighting for.

Truth is this team is not what we predicted they are BETTER! They just needed a little emotional boost to carry on and Terry had run out of ideas! The FO didn’t help by throwing in the towel and came to the decision on harvey he eventually did one game too late!

You will fail to find one comment from me defending the FO. My mindset, my statements were always it’s too soon to really judge and anyway……..he’s just part of the packaged deal between Selig and Wilpon brought in to save Fred’s team for him.

Seriously, I just don’t understand the anger from some of you.

SP though turned out to be the least of the problems even though we lost 3/5s of the starting rotation. BP, defense and offense in this second half were so much worse.

I think the quote was:
“You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.”

LOL

Find one comment anywhere where I said SA did an excellant job, just one. Only don’t spend too much time because you won’t find one.

The problem with those of you in the SA haters core is anyone here who did not join you all in mocking the FO with childish slurpy comments were all lumped together on some fictitious other side. Just makes me laugh. It’s been highly entertaining, to say the least.