I was surprised about the Ojeda comments as well until remembering how Gary Cohen discussed the same possibiilites and how such a trade could actually help the Mets in the long term. It makes me wonder if the front office is already using their television spokespeople to help change the attitude of the fan base by emphasizing only one side of an argument. Throughout the season they’ve been spinning the issue of Jose leaving the Mets without mentioning the front office never made a contract offer.

Ah, hoping the power of spin will influence the human subsconscious into buying tickets next season. Gotta admire the effort.

Let the THERAPY SESSION BEGIN!

In mentioning Keith having made comments about Jose Reyes, I seem to remember him applauding Jose’s physical skills and the excitement he brought to a game but also questioning his baseball smarts considering his experience. Keith was 100 % correct about that. Jose Reyes was not a smart player. He was a terrific catalyst, as exciting a player as Ricky Henderson but he often did stupid things on the field. The Mets should have traded him instead of letting him test Free Agency. In the end they weighed the risk involved because of injury with resigning him but I am sure they considered his lack of baseball smarts. Ruben Tejada’s season proved his smarts all season long. I wish that there was money to throw around and that we could have resigned Jose but under the circumstances I think we are better off now with Tejada…..

In the meantime, I hope that our broadcasters never stop begin honest about our team. I no longer live in NY and I pay to see the games on the MLB package. There are many nights where I am forced to watch and listen to the feed from our opponents instead of Gary, Keith and Ron and let me tell you that some of these other broadcasting teams are almost clownish, They create game scenarios that are practically absurd. At times it sounds like they would wish seizures on their opponents rather than their teams losing a game.

Nauseating to listen to!

Yeap. Which is losing a lot of games, disappearing when it matter, struggling big time the past few second halves, ohhh. and the team has gotten worse as it became clear he was the “face of the Franchise”… Got it… That’s the type of Captain we need…

Same with Wright. Why invest in players when you’re only going to have large commitments to declining players when you’re ready to to actually start winning?

This year and even more next will really show what Alderson really has planned for the future of the team.

What bothers me is, does anyone think that if this FO makes a couple of smart trades and increases spending to $115mil range that they could be competitive for a full season? If they had one more solid power bat in the line up and a couple of better arms in the pen, don’t you think that would have helped out with two of our biggest problems this year?

I’m a believer that if the Mets kept winning this 2nd half that attendance would have kept improving instead of sinking and the extra $20mil spent on payroll would have been covered…plus with the expectations of Wheeler and Harvey next year…how many more ticket packages would they sell for 2013?

So far, Wright has been very careful in his remarks regarding his future. I’m not sure how as they must stick a microphone in his face about a half dozen times a day and ask him the same questions.

On the pregame show last night, KB interviewed Wright. At the end he says something like: ‘I know you don’t want to answer any more of these questions but…’ and launches right into the same old, same old. To Wright’s credit, he didn’t get exasperated and gave him a good answer – one that couldn’t be picked apart one way or the other.

Obviously there is differences because Dickey is being paid by those guys so he really should keep his mouth shut to the media but I find it strange that he is being criticized most for doing it by those who do it the most.

Wright is a different beast. To me it’s either sign an extension by the Winter Meetings or send the guy packing. Baseball is in deed a business and time for both sides to shut up and decide.

Whiner and moaner? Really?

Bottom line is he’s still 38. His arm might have less stress on it but the rest of him is still in line with a 38 year old, no matter how good a shape he’s in – which from what I’m seeing is actually better shape then he was in 2012. Case in point is the abdominal tear he suffered early this season and he’s been pitching with. He’s no more or less in danger of those type injuries than any other baseball player.

I guess you skipped over the part of my response that said:
‘I get the idea of just picking up his team friendly option and rolling with him next season or possibly trading him. That’s baseball, it’s a business first.’

I take exception to that ‘losing’ record you keep mentioning concerning Dickey.
To me, you have to separate what he did as a conventional pitcher and what he’s done as strictly a knuckle ball pitcher. He’s not going back to conventional pitching at all so any team evaluating him should be looking strictly at his knuckle ball years.

Whether we as fans like it or not, the light could go off for Dickey at any moment. Don’t forget what sets him apart from a guy like Wakefield is the fastball. His knuckler is most effective when he locates his fastball and can fool hitters by changing speeds.

His age is still a factor and I know we as fans value him a ton – nobody dislikes the guy and rightfully so.

But I honestly feel if he hit the open market, he’d see teams are very cautious with not only his age but also his repertoire.

I think the priority is figuring out Wright and then seeing what they can do with Dickey when the time comes. You can’t sign Dickey to more than a 2 year deal probably….

I think there is no doubt he outperformed his contract this year, but he’s also the one who signed that contract.