Comments on: The Differences Between The Mets and a Playoff Team http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290904 Metsie Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:54:08 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290904 LOL yeah cause we all know Duda is a regular Speedy Gonzales right?

]]> By: Donal http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290855 Donal Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:12:03 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290855 So, you’d rather be fat slow and expensive than…good?

I have Bobby Bonilla on line 1 for you.

]]> By: trs86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290735 trs86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:50:20 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290735 I said last year as in 2011.

]]> By: Old School Mets Fan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290732 Old School Mets Fan Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:37:08 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290732 The Mets payroll in 2012 was $93 million, which was 14th in baseball. That was not a ton of money. The Twins spent more. Had they been able to spend $110 million (which would have ranked them 9th) they could have been appreciably better. The fact they are not spending a lot on their minor league prospects shoudl also tell us something.

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290669 Metsie Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:03:56 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290669 Business’ who wish to grow thier business and revenues do it all the time!

They open a store that the mere profits they are making in one store doesn’t pay for on the reasoning that by having a second store it will do as well as the other and pay for itself!

By taking a RISK (not making an investment as you guys try to make it out to be) that the NEW PRODUCT LINE will draw enough buyers to pay the cost of carrying that new product!

It’s called Business GROWTH!

No business has ever made MORE money by decising to stop carrying the few products that do draw people to thier business!

The way we did when we purged Beltran, Reyes, K-Rod while keeping Bay who doesn’t sell anything!

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290668 srt Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:58:30 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290668 ‘”The time Ozzie Guillen teased my child with a baseball on a string for 30 minutes while his starting pitcher walked six consecutive batters.”

Gotta love Ozzie.

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290667 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:58:20 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290667 Seriously, what team focused on winning actually puts a nightclub IN the stadium? LOL. That alone should have told you Loria’s plans had nothing to do with winning.

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290666 srt Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:56:58 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290666 LOL, pretty funny Alex.

My favorite was: ‘Heath Bell LMAO’.

Anyone notice every time we played the Marlins there, the SNY camera crew made sure to show a couple of shots of those girls dancing in the nightclub beyond the OF? I had to LOL listening to Keith trying to be ‘politically correct’ when commenting on that.

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290665 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:55:02 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290665 Honestly the contract they “offered” “proposed” for Reyes was most likely calculated in the fact of well if it still tanks can we keep the team…. I think they decided that was the max they could go. But I also think they had no idea that the Marlins would go loony and offer something no other team was willing to even consider.

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290664 srt Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:54:00 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290664 Looks like they’re hidden, archived or no longer there. I can’t get to them either.

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290661 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:52:28 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290661 Is it really fair to pick on those 5 fans, they have been through enough already. Imagine how poor attendance would be if they hadn’t put a nightclub in the stadium? LOL.

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290660 srt Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:52:27 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290660 Yup, you’ll get no argument from me.
I’ve gone on record as saying if the Mets weren’t in the financial mess that they were after the 2011 season, Reyes would still be a Met.
Instead, they slashed payroll some 50 MIL, and tried to fill all holes with about a 10 MIL budget to play with – over and above what was already committed.

No one will make me believe the Wilpons said go ahead and spend money and SA said ‘no thanks’.

]]> By: Alex68 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290658 Alex68 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:50:22 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290658 SRT will like this:

http://deadspin.com/5951256/the-marlins-asked-fans-to-share-their-favorite-memories-from-this-season-it-went-about-how-youd-expect?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290657 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:49:16 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290657 There were 250 comments on that post but I can’t see them. That would be interesting to read as well.

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290656 srt Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:46:27 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290656 Well, that sure is interesting….

Seems opinions have changed some from 2 years ago. And in my estimation that’s for one reason and one reason only: the Mets have had 3 losing seasons in ’10, ’11 and ’12.

There’s a reason they say winning cures all….

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290654 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:43:05 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290654 What I don’t think people get is you can’t spend money you don’t have. I think the country might need that lesson as well but that’s a different story. The only reason the US can still spend more than it has is that they have someone willing to allow them to borrow a seemingly unlimited amount and they can print their own money as well… LOL.

The Mets had borrowed ALL they could and actually even more than they were supposed to. So again, lets say they decided last year to go out and get, hell I don’t know, Fielder. Where exactly would they have gotten the money to pay him? Many are saying that the increased attendance would have paid for it. However, you are placing your franchise on the line when you do that. If it backfires, the team was so unstable they would have had to sell the team. They played it safe trying to shed some bad contracts, plain and simple.

]]> By: TRS86 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290652 TRS86 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:34:54 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290652 I like this one better. From the leader of the site. It summarizes how MANY of us felt and it had nothing to do with Moneyball.

http://metsmerizedonline.com/2010/10/the-moneyball-mets-i-dont-think-so.html

Fuson, who knows Alderson better than just about any person alive, substantiates what I wrote. Sandy Alderson is a smart guy… a take charge guy… a hands-on guy…

There will be plenty of instances where he’ll turn to advanced statistics to evaluate a potential signing, draft pick or trade target, and that’s not a bad thing. He will use statistics to measure performance and a player’s productivity as well he should. This is what most or all GM’s do each and every day as routine part of their jobs. Baseball is all about numbers, so to ignore them would be akin to disrespecting the game.

However, Alderson will not use sabermetrics as the end-all to running an organization. He will use every tool in his arsenal to build a winner and that includes using his own instincts and scouting reports as well. He will consider things like character because he himself is a man of integrity. This is what he’s done his entire career, and he’s not suddenly going to stop now.

So I urge my sabermetricaly inclined friends, to take a deep breath and stop fantasizing about some Cecil B. DeMille epic where Alderson will raise his mighty staff, part the Hudson River, and lead the Mets into the promised land where they can worship Bill James at the foot of Mount Saber.

It ain’t happening…”

]]> By: Alex68 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290651 Alex68 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:34:12 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290651 Emaus is no slouch….

]]> By: Bayonne Mets Fan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290650 Bayonne Mets Fan Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:32:10 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290650 Well this is what Sandy’s goal is…to be young, cheap, and good. And you know what? You can still lose to big, fat, slow, & expensive. So all these years we have to wait just to see what we saw last night happen anyway.

]]> By: jessep http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/10/the-differences-between-the-mets-and-a-playoff-team.html#comment-290648 jessep Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:31:00 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=98411#comment-290648 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2010/12/mets-rule-v-draft-another-2b-candidate.html – facts if you ever want actual quotes. just throwin it out there.

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