Sorry I didn’t repeat what I said in early posts – it’s not the money that David can bring in as it indeed is the continued decrease in revenue that would occur if he didn’t.

As mention to Alex:

“And I agree with you, just re-signing David (and R.A.) won’t bring any more people into the seats – at most, it would reduce the damage of the continued drop of empty ones projected for the upcoming season. If the Mets want to increase attendance they need to 1) go after more players like you suggest and 2) keep those ticket prices lower. But I don’t know how much damage the ownership has caused already and how the sudden about face in payroll would sit with fans after the dissappointments that approach caused the past two seasons.”

Why should that be? Although the Mets have been acting like a small market team, this is New York, the biggest baseball market in the nation. Re-signing David should not preclude a New York team from going after other good ones that could fit in and repair some of the many more holes Sandy has created. As many have said, that further investment in the team could be made up for with higher attendance and television ratings by renewed interest.

Or if it’s instead a situation (as I have suggested) of the Mets unable to take on more contracts due to limited contingency funds or cash flow then the owners should sell the team instead of selling the fans short for by doing the latter, they are sure to wind up doing the former.

Phillies: Worley, Outman, Jason Donald, Drabek, Dominick Brown, Gose.

Mets: Pelfrey, Niese, Thole, Parnell, Murphy, Joe Smith, Gee, Duda, Ike, Nieuwnhuis, Harvey, and Edgin.

The Mets are much better, and it’s not even close!

As in Backup from contention in the MLB! lol
You need guys like Torres to do that!

Because he knew we were going to mention 4 or 5 guys as CORE and he needed to surpass it by adding two cores together to get his numbers up and at the same time remove some names off the mets list.

Neither Cano or Nova were part of the original core that got them all those Playoffs and WS appearances.

It comes down to tyhe guys who want to rebuild are only interested in MONEYBALLIN and want to wipe the slate clean because some moneyballer told them (and they bought it) thats what the Yankees did.

But none of the CORE teams did what they propose…

None of them found a core and then went buying….
They all went Buying and then found pieces they could call core along the way that won due to the goodness of players around that core.

As I noted above Jeter, Williams, Posada, Petitte and Rivera do squat without guys like Boggs, Wells, Clemmons, Meyers that were all bought and paid for in Free Agency.

Would the Braves have been the same team without Maddox?

How many WS does that Phillie core win without Lee?

Do the Red Sox win the WS without Manny?

NOPE!

CORE BULLSHIT I call it….

They really went to look for examples of teams who did it the way Oakland did (Saber/Moneyball) without using Oakland (who won nothing) and think that the fact they had 4 Young kids on thier squad is proof they built from within….

EVERY TEAM has 4 young kids on it’s squad but only the ones who go and pay for the BEST to complement them ever actually win anything.

It’s just a feeble attempt at using those teams as a trojan horse to infect the moneyball/Saber/Oakland philosophy to the masses…

I don’t know where Taskmaster came from but he is one of the worst sandy defenders here…
Even Jessup was never as bad as this guy.

Hamels said the NY METS chocked their season, after being put on the spot on a radio show, again at the time he said NY METS, not just David Wright, that team included your saviors Beltran, Delgado and Reyes.

Anyone that reads this site knows you hate Wright, but come with facts please, not lies.

Despite numerous players saying that he is the man in the clubhouse, you are calling them liars and saying he has no voice on this team. Cool

This really is becoming a soap opera, you can walk away from this site for months, come back and the same people are saying the same crap every day.

Tigers: Maybin, Joyce, Avila, Boesch, Porcello, Dirks, Jacob Turner, Smyly, S Sizemore, Andrew Millier, Badenhop, Furbush.

Mets: Pelfrey, Niese, Thole, Parnell, Murphy, Joe Smith, Gee, Duda, Ike, Nieuwnhuis, Harvey, and Edgin.

Can you really saw the Tigers are THAT much better than the Mets? I don’t think so. In fact, I might even say the Mets are better.