Comments on: Can The Mets Be Next Year’s Orioles?

By: Joey D.

Joey D. — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:13:36 +0000

Hi Maniac,

LMAO on all your points!

By: Met Maniac

Met Maniac — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:45:55 +0000

Joey, asking them to expand on this so-called vision or how he’s going to make wholesale changes would be a kin to squeezing juice out of a dried out prune.

We’ve been asking them to state their cases for two years, but the best they could come up with was “I’m going to give him two years before I start judging him”.

Guess what, it’s two years, now it’s back to blame Wilpon.

O.J. Simpson’s defense team that was tabbed the Dream Team, couldn’t hold a candle to Alderson’s defense team. I’ve never seen anything like it in over 40 years of watching this game.

By: Joey D.

Joey D. — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:15:50 +0000

Wonder why nobody has yet to refer in a positive manner about Sandy’s vision for the future and that if not in 2013, then by 2014, the Mets have little chance to be this season’s Orioles outside a miracle like 1969?

We’ve given our assessments. Let’s hear it from the other camp to offset our negative outlook.

By: larman

larman — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:58:15 +0000

How can anyone ask that question, It’s impossible for this team to do anything. Where is the leadership, where is the backbone, where is the mets should say yo let’s win and show poeple we can. They won’t cus the wilpons own this team. Like i said the wilpons leadership for the mets is going in the toilet if ya know what i mean. Please get rid of the wilpons and spare us mets fans of defeat. They won’t spend money, they won’t get players like they should, come on like nobody feels the same as me, then all of you don’t get it. You look up the track record of the mets since the wilpons have own this team, then comment.

By: Joey D.

Joey D. — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:08:27 +0000

Absolutely not.

The Orioles were a sub 70-win team the last few years and going nowhere. But they went out an assembled a great bullpen to go along with their closer, got two starters and three position players to go along with what they had. There was no dismantling of what they had or promises of a five year plan. They tried to improve themselves which was something those in Flushing have not attempted to do in two years.

Not everyone is successful overnight like the Orioles but we have to remember – Omar too took a club that won just 71 games and in two years was one strike away from the world series. The next two years they broke our hearts with two late season collapses but that was still better than what we are doing now. Like his moves or not, the Wilpons at least allowed Omar to try and do something. What we have seen today is a front office trying to cut corners as much as possible for the benefit of the Wilpons retaining ownership while paying off debt. Once that is reduced, bet we are going to see a new vision once more and Sandy Aldeson retiring after accomplishing what he was hired to do.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:10:03 +0000

No way in hell.

By: stick

stick — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:12:32 +0000

sure they can. any team with enough talent to be ~.500 has a shot.

even the people who rail on the FO seem to say so. If the logic is that there were players available within budget that would have gotten them over the hump this year (instead of the ones they did get), then all they need is to pick better this off season!

the other variable (besides “luck”) of course is up/down years out of guys you have. If a few important guys decide to have breakout or career years together, the team will win a bunch more games.

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:14:47 +0000

John. Do you and your lovely family plan on retiring to Florida someday to live out your golden years. I have the perfect piece of property for you in a gated community on the intercoastal waterway in Panama City. This is no bull. Please make an offer. Are my comments in anyway connected to your post-you bet!

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:07:41 +0000

Sandy says there will be changes. But with no new FA then thru trades and promotions from within. I can’t see trades of any significance. The only way the mets could be the Orioles of 2012 is to be the miracle Mets of 1969 when thy beat the Orioles. With good SP we have the foundation to contend. The rest is up to Sandy to fill needs. We are assuming a payroll of 90-100M.

By: Des

Des — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:03:01 +0000

Hi John — I love optimism but there is a limit. lol
Could the Mets be next year’s Orioles? Yup. If pigs could fly.