ANyone who claims to care about how much we are spending is either a Wilpon that is named in the Will or is more interested in playing GM than rooting for the team and wanting a team worth seeing!

I don’t care how much money Wilpon has or how much of his money we spend!
I don’t care if the team makes a penny a billion or breaks even.
All I care about is they put the best team out there possible, One that can make the playoffs in a two wildcard format so people will be willing to go see them ALL SEASON which will solve whatever problems they have with spending and finances.

If your concerned about how much they spend of spending TOO much your not rooting for the mets to succeed your rooting fo the WIlpons!

Thats the way I look at all this spending talk!
We have cut our Payroll by about a third and we have yet to re-invest a penny of it yet!
And if I were the GM I would give Jeffy and Fred a package of hot dogs to eat for the next three years and tell them the STEAK money is going towards making a team people want to see that will solve thier problems and allow them to go back to red meat in two or three years.

And if they said no I would go to the press and say Sorry folks can’t win here until the owners realize without a good team the steak dinners stop altogether!

Joe writes that “David Wright peaked in 2007 (.963 OPS), plateaued in 2008 (.924) and has declined ever since. Is that a fair statement to make?”

Not really.

David had better hitters batting before and after him during those years.

History shows us that when Wright tries to do too much he is not the same hitter.

Who did David have wrapped around him this past year? Ike hitting a buck nothing for half the season and the likes of Duda and Bay.

Wright got nothing to hit in the second half of the season.

We should not only endorse signing Wright to a long term (agreed it shouldn’t be longer than five years) and then work on getting some decent contact hitters to compliment him.

If the Mets sign Wright and still have crap hitting around him then why bother?

if u said putting him at 1B, thats totally valid

i merely asked why u thought he had concentration issues…and ur coming up with as much detail as Paul Ryan when u ask him for details on their tax plan…

dont forget Byrdek…who he could’ve moved at the deadline…

dont forget Izzy…who he could’ve moved at last year’s deadline…

FunFact: I recently saw one of the guys in the K-Rod trade mowing the lawn on my uncle’s block in Long Island…

a team that was supposed to be contracted and done away with???

why on earth would u keep prospects for a team in a playoff hunt that may not even exist past the season?

and yes the payroll ballooned from 2005-2009….

guess what?

attendance and REVENUE ballooned along with it…

Mets had the BEST 4 year attendance record in their ENTIRE FRANCHISE HISTORY under Omar…

The payroll in 2006 was SMALLER than it was in 2002…and their attendance was TWICE as much…

what the fork do u think they did with the EXTRA CASH they made from 05-08?

then add up the new SNY regional network money…

now add up the Citibank money… ( 20 mil )

then add up the MLB advanced media rev sharing money…( 35 mil )

then add up the new TV sharing rights deal ( 30 mil ? )

then add up MLB merchandise rev sharing….

The Wilpons are making over 100 mil BEFORE they sell ONE TICKET to u…

If u thought the press was hard on Ike Davis for staying out late and going to the movies…

Adam Rubin would be on Miggy like a parole officer…

u would know how many beers miggy had…every night….

who he slept with….how old she was…and who she slept with…

the controversy would be bananas in NY

Adam Rubin would lick the fungus that grew on David’s big toe if he could

just sayin

2008 – http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=wrighda03&year=2008&t=b#bases

2009 – http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=wrighda03&year=2009&t=b#bases

2010 – http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=wrighda03&year=2010&t=b#bases

2011 – http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=wrighda03&year=2011&t=b#bases

2012 – http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=wrighda03&year=2012&t=b#bases

Basically..

2008 – sucked
2009 – decent ( in the 1st half )
2010 – sucked
2011 – sucked
2012 – decent ( again..in the 1st half )

Wright from April-June was lights out in 2009-2010 + 2012…
Wright from July –October has been a total failure from 2009-2010-2011-2012…

these are facts dude…no matter how ugly they are…

why on earth do u think 3B is some special position???

after Buddy Harrelson…how many SS did we have locking down that position before Reyes?

Kevin Elster???
Rey Ordonez??
Rafael Santana ????

How about 1B?

we had keith from 83-89…and Delgado from 06-08…..and thats about it….

how about 2B?
how about LF?
how about C?

please spare me

if u cant concentrate at SS…u cant concentrate in LF…or 2B…or 1B…or 3B….

And if you’re comparing his work in Montreal, all he did there was trade away young talented prospects and sold out the future with a “win now” mentality. You know like alot of the bloggers here wanted Sandy to do this year at the deadline.

Don’t get me wrong here, the jury is still out on Alderson and Co., but please don’t give Minaya accolades he doesn’t deserve.

And this name is a character from the movie Boogie Nights, which you should see if you have not.