Paul Depo has a “personal connection” with the 240 players so far selected in the first 3 rounds of the 2011 and 2012 draft !!!!

15 years from now, when 10% of these players are in the league, and Depo is now dealing with them as 34 year olds instead of 18-20 year olds…we can say that he had a personal connection with that player !!!

Minaya oversaw 5 drafts with Texas. Minaya has personal connections with damn near every hot prospect from latin america drafted or signed in the 90′s !!!

because that makes sense !!!

UNLIKE RA DICKEY

UNLIKE ALEX CORA

UNLIKE KEVIN BROWN

UNLIKE FERNANDO TATIS

maybe because you need Omar to have a “personal connection” to Beltran so you can defend your ridiculous notion that Omar would not have traded Beltran ( despite if his BOSSES told him to or not )

Omar is going to risk being fined for insubordination because of a made up personal connection you have no proof of ..

and going by those guidelines…wouldnt the head of every latin american scouting department have a “personal” connection with Carlos Beltran?

does Paul DePo have a “personal connection” with Courtney Hawkins now?

I have no proof that he scouted him, I just know Courtney was one of the top prospects in America the same year Depo was running the draft. 15 years from now, with no proof, after Hawkins is signed as a free-agent by Paul DePo, we can say it was due to his “personal connection”

that makes sense !!!

He’s only saying that because he doesn’t want the fans to realize he’s cutting salary winning be damned and by the time people like you figure it out he won’t be here to have to listen to how you hate him for decieving you!

If you think CONTEXT and HIDING MOTIVES is reason for a GM to lie that scenario fits it better than any scenario you could use to justify his past lies!

I’d go for that. Why not? I’d be shocked if he hadn’t personally met them by now if he didn’t scouted each one personally.

Get that enormous chip off your shoulders, damaja. It’s weighing you down and you can’t think straight.

i show u proof that Omar’s circumstances were completely NOT in his favor as reason why he traded Colon for a pack of bubblegum and you still wont admit it…

Omar’s 2003 Expos on a 39 million dollar budget had to trade Floyd and Colon for dog-sh*t ( their 2 most productive players )

AND STILL the Expos made a run for the playoffs…

winning percentages for Sandy’s teams he had to cut payroll for

How about those 1993 A’s ? .420
How about those 1994 A’s ? .447
How about those 1995 A’s ? .465
How about those 1996 A’s ? .481
How about those 1997 A’s ? .401
How about those 2008 Padre’s ? .389
How about those 2009 Padre’s ? .463
How about those 2011 Met’s ? .475
How about those 2012 Met’s ? .457

Sandyball at its finest !!!!

As director of LA scouting for so many years and Beltran being a top 5 PR prospect it would be surprising if Omar hadn’t personally scouted him and met him before.

Believe what you want. You have a warped agenda and a mountainous chip on your shoulder!

You were arguing that there were payroll RANKINGS on that page. Not on any other page. And you were simply 100% wrong. Everyone was laughing at you and even Joey said there were no payroll rankings on that page.

LOLOLOLOL!

You cant provide a link with anything Omar ever said that claimed he saw Beltran in HS

But yes, its perfect sense to assume Omar has a “personal connection” with Beltran !

I guess we can assume Paul Depo has a personal connection with every single draft pick from the first 3 rounds last year !

Yes that makes sense !

Common Sense !!!

Like the wrapper !

I’d maybe believe some of that if not for the fact Omar FU’d so many trades for the mets.

Face it, Omar is a failure at trades.

I provided you with payroll rankings that proved my theory.

Sandy never won a damn thing with a shoe string budget

Sandy with the mets has a shoe string budget

Sandy wont win a thing with the mets on a shoe string budget

and unless we get billy beane to come after, chances are neither will Grady Fu..I mean JP

HMMM

lets see…

Sandy in off-season says that he is restricted in how much money he can spend, therefore giving the met fanbase that much more reason to spend their hard-earned cash on over-priced tickets they didnt buy in 2010…

wait…that doesnt work…

Sandy in off-season says that he has no restrictions in how much money he can spend, therefore he will judiciously decide what players are paid by the mets and what players are sent packing. This will be mainly be based on performance among other factors he will not explicitly name.

Yeah I think option #2 ( aka the misleading vague one ) is what he said…

as a matter of fact, this is what he said in every off-season he has been a met GM

he always says he has no payroll restrictions, that he has flexibility to add players…

magically, he has you convinced he is being honest !!!

I hope you dont accept candy from strangers in tinted black vans…but if you do, make sure his name is Sandy

And still not being man enough to admit you were wrong. What a dolt you are!

ESPN – Should Minaya absorb all the egging and TP-ing for this awful trade? Not by a long shot. Step forward, Bud Selig, to claim your prize.

Every off-season, hordes of teams cut payroll. They didn’t perform as expected, attendance wasn’t as good as they’d hoped, and the owner wants to hold the line on salaries. No biggie. Get the GM working the phones, start talking to suitors, and see what you can do to chop salary while reloading the team’s pool of young talent.

Not the Expos. Minaya had to sit through the World Series and several more weeks while the owners twiddled their thumbs over the Expos’ 2003 schedule (so 22 “home” games in Puerto Rico won’t put them at a disadvantage, right?) and the season’s payroll. When the owners emerged from talks, they breathlessly told every wag who’d listen that the Expos would have to slice their payroll down to about $40 million before Opening Day.

And why not? As co-owners of the Expos, it was in their best interests to spread word of the Expos’ plight, making it clear Minaya would have no leverage with which to negotiate. Not only could big-game hunters like the Yankees, Red Sox and Mets hope to drop the price for prizes like Vladimir Guerrero, Jose Vidro, Javier Vazquez and Colon, but even secondary shoppers could get Orlando Cabrera, Michael Barrett and Tony Armas for a couple of tattered Andy Stankiewicz bubble gum cards.

They’d be chumps not to try. It was Selig who’d dragged his feet taking action on the Expos’ future from Day One. Selig engineered the all-too-convenient Jeffrey Loria to Florida-John Henry to Boston-Expos to hell dance after the 2001 season. While embattled Montreal fans stewed and jilted fans in Washington and other potential future markets fumed, Selig hatched a brilliant plan to create a team whose identity would revolve around one overriding principle: conflict of interest. Every time another team made even the smallest deal with the Expos, it was doing so with an ENTITY it partially OWNED. This was absurdly shady even by MLB standards.

The Colon deal, and all the public negotiations that went with it, was merely the coup de gross. GMs practice gamesmanship all the time while negotiating deals – it’s an established part of the game. But by laying all the Expos’ cards on the table before anyone else had to place a bet, MLB gave suitors a chance to take negotiating tricks to a new level.

The Red Sox, for one, didn’t get their man in Colon, a fact that’ll light up more than a few smiles in the Bronx. But throughout the Colon negotiations, freshly minted GM Theo Epstein showed he knows how to dance. The Yankees backing off and Minaya growing more desperate? Time to pull Casey Fossum off the table. Minaya trying to close the deal? Make sure the media gets wind of Colon’s off- season condition, downgraded from portly to just-ate-Garces. Other teams also joined the information-leaking party. A few more days of waiting and someone would be checking into rumors of Vlad’s leprosy.

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Basically…the same group of owners who all partially OWNED the EXPOS, colluded in bringing down the asking price for Omar, who had to trade Colon before the season started…

Sandy has never in his life worked under those conditions AND STILL produced a team not only over .500 but in a pennant chase

LMAOOOOOOOOO

LOL, you’re just lost damaja.

Now tell us, which of those special circumstances I mentioned in the 2nd statement apply to the first? Too hard? Think, damaja.

Damaja: Lobotomized at birth!

AWESOME !!!!

Oh, unless you’re Omar who thinks the art of the trade means blinking first and valuing quantity over quality.

There were plenty of teams that Omar could have traded Colon too, but he chose to get crap.

Omar is one of the worst at trades. If he were still with the Mets doing trades now, we’d all be mourning.