Comments on: From Left Field: Wishing Jason Bay The Best http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: alan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-302156 alan Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:34:59 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-302156 It’s guys like you that give Met fans a bad name. Jason Bay busted his butt for this team and most fans recognized this despite wanting him to be released. You rant like he stopped trying at all to get himself straightened out and that is ridiculous. His attitude and work ethic were great but the results were not. He did not have to agree to this deal and most fans hope he finds himself again as long as it is not while playing against the Mets.

The money he was paid was not yours!

Wishing him financial disaster shows that you are a nasty SOB

Go root for the Yankees!

]]> By: Jim Dolan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-302073 Jim Dolan Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:15:30 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-302073 I agree 100%. If just effort = performance, then Bay would be an all-star. Shame it didn’t work out. I wish him well. Classy guy in a sport where there are few to be found. All the best, Jason.

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301894 Metsie Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:31:20 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301894 Well Maniac it’s not reall Bay’s fault that he somehow became a free agent ina very weak year for Free Agency and got offerred the top dollar merely because he got into the right market to get overpaid….

I can’t really blame Bay for what he got I blame Omar (in this one case) for being in a position of having to MAKE a deal for something and having to do it in such a weak market where bust was very likely and even if Bay did what was expected was still not anywhere near worth the money he got.

Thats the real problem with his deal, even if he did what was expected he still got paid more than he would have if there was a Pujols or Beltran available in FA at the time.

Omar just made the mistake in buying in a market where supply was low, demand was high and in those cases you almost always overpay.

He would have been better off trading for Salary to get what he wanted in that market.

]]> By: Met Maniac http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301892 Met Maniac Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:23:52 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301892 Yeah I wish him the best healthwise, but I wish him the worst financially. I hope he somehow loses every penny of that $69 million he robbed from us. I hope he takes a huge financial tumble and loses everything. He set this team back five years. I wish him the same thing.

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301880 Metsie Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:06:07 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301880 I’ll reply to you to answer both….

Castillo gave up only in ST the year he got cut.
He got frustrated and complained and even demanded to be cut to get the hell out.

I agree though that Castillo got a bad rap here and from the media/fanbase.

He was not as awful as people made him out to be.

He got caught up in the same rage that made people want to see Beltran, Reyes and anyone else from the 2006-2007 team sent packing…

He wasn’t even a money drain on the team at only 8 Mil per yet many here tried to suggest his signing was a typical high price low return example of BAD SPENDING practices by Omar…

Yet he made only 2 Mil more than Francisco who was clearly not even worth his 6 Mil.

]]> By: Just_Da_Damaja http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301866 Just_Da_Damaja Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:52:54 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301866 Exactly how did Castillo “give up”?

]]> By: Donal http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301861 Donal Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:49:54 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301861 I don’t think Castillo gave up. His body, perhaps, but not the man himself.

I wanted him cut just like everyone else, but I never liked all the comments and stuff that got thrown around when it finally happened. Being bad at baseball does not make someone a bad person.

Prior to 2011 Spring training, I heard all the stories about how hard he was working, what a good clubhouse guy he was, how he was mentoring younger guys. It made him seem like a guy who just wanted to contribute as best he could.

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301855 Metsie Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:42:52 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301855 Jason bay was the complete antithesis of Perez and Castillo,

They simply gave up while Jason tried about as hard as anyone but just couldn’t get the results.

I will root for him wherever he goes and would not be upset if he wins a batting title or gets a WS ring after leaving because the player as a person is precisely what you want on your roster…

It just never seemed to translate to the performance but the effort and attitude was always solid.
I wish the guy the best.

]]> By: Angelo http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/11/from-left-field-wishing-jason-bay-the-best.html#comment-301820 Angelo Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:35:35 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=100352#comment-301820 he was a pain in the ass, financial seen , but sure he is a good guy, i wish him the best . He should play the game he loves as long as possible .

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