That’s the story whether Ike Davis is white, red, black, or purple.

Yes” an argument can certainly be made that the Mets will be playing for high draft picks for the next three year.

That puts the team right on course to start winning in 2018. Of course by then Harvey will have left via free agency.

What, exactly, is the logic and purpose of keeping Ike Davis in the clean-up slot – or even on the MLB squad for that matter – when his game continues to decline on both sides of the ball? The team is not winning, so his presence cannot be justified. At this point, I think Ike is becoming more like Oliver Perez.

What, exactly, would be the harm with sending Ike to AAA to get healthy, promoting Brown to LF and switching Duda to 1st base? Where is the harm? Shouldn’t ball players be awarded promotions based on merit?

I KNOW IT, MY CHILDREN KNOW IT & MY GRANDCHILDREN ARE, LIKE YOU, LEARNING IT. AS ALWAYS IT IS……………..WHAT IT IS & HAS ALWAYS BEEN!

METSIE, NO, BEYOND THIS SEASON IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NIEUWENHUIS OR DEN DECKER THOUGH MORE THAN LIKELY THE ORIGINAL MINAYA DESIGNED VISION WAS THAT WOSDERFUL CF PROSPECT LOST TO THE FORD EXPLORER ROLLOVER INCIDENT KILLING PLAN A, THE MOST LIKELY HEIR APPARENT TO THE COMPLETETD TERM OF BELTRAN; HOWEVER NO ONE COULD ENVISION THE CRASH OF ’08 & THE MADOFF WAKE. ANY MORE THAN THAT FATEFUL EXPLOERER CRASH HAD IT NEVER HAPPENED NO APPEARNCES BY COWGILL, NIEWENHUIS AS PLAN B, denDECKER, PLAN C. OR IS THAT NOT ENOUGH CONTINGENCIES? AS EVERYTHING WAS HYPERDRIVEN BY FINANCIAL COLLAPSES BOTH INTERNAL & EXTERNAL A HUGE HOLE WAS RENDERED IN THE FLAGSHIP BY INADEQUATE & LIKELY “OVERLY IN SEARCH OF BARGAIN INTERNAL SLUTIONS SAVING $$$ & PICKS” LED TO THIS SUDDEN…B A M!

ONE FLAT BALD TIRE, AT LEAST, 3 TO GO(LF,RF,WHEREVER) & ONTO PLAN D…TBD. AFTER A 35% SEASON OF BULLPEN TROUBLES & LH TREVAAILS, I AM INCENSED THAT OUR ONE DIRECT COMPETITOR DESERVING A LAURELS REST OVER THEIR BULLPEN, ATLANTA, SHOULD SO EASILY & AFFORDABLY UNEARTH JOE BIEMEL, ON A BARGAIN MiLB DEAL AT THE FIRST CRISIS WHEN OUR RESOURCES SHOULD’VE BEEN SET ON SCOUR SINCE APRIL 1. WHOMEVER WAS ASSIGNED LH RELIEF SOLUTIONS DESERVES A PINKSLIP.
MWTSIE, IS BIEMEL ANY KIND OF ANSWER IN ATLANTA? NO MORE & NO LESS THAN ANKIEL IN FLUSHING, ESP FOR WHAT I ANTICIPATE AS A MLB MINIMUM WAGE SCALE KNOWING ALDERSON KNEW ANKIEL HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM A “PROVE IT” MiLB CONTRACT WITH INVITATION

ARMED WITH THAT CIRCUMSTANCE & OFFERING A FULL MLB LEVEL 1Y DEAL ANY SALARY HIGHER THAN 480K MINIMUM WOULD STARTLE ME; AS I SEE IT THAT’S NOT A TERRIBLE PRICE, WHEN YOUR BACK IS UP AGAINST IT & YOU ARE MORE THAN LIKELY GETTING MLB CALIBER CF DEFENSE AND A BOTTOM OF THE LINEUP AVG ASCCOMPANIED BY A BONUS OF LATE LINEUP OCCASIONAL POWER THAT HAS NOW SURPASSED YOUIR PREMERE POWER RESOURCE[WRIGHT] ON THE SEASON BY 40%.
WERE U EXPECTING JASON BOURNE? SO WHAT, IF ANKIEL’S A PATCH ON AN INNERTUBE, NOT THE PIRELLI U ENVISIONED; BUT .225 + HR POP FROM #7 HOLE ISN’T TO BE SNIFFLED @.
BTW, METSIE ALONG WITH YOUR CONTINED COMPLAINT & POINTLESS CHAGRIN WHO WAS YOUR PREFERRED CF SOLUTION IN MID-MAY IF NOT ANKIEL?

PLEASE DO NOT BORE ME WITH ANY DREAMED UP “WE COULDA/SHOULDA DEALT FORS” WHEN THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CORROBERATING SUPPORT OF CHEAPLY PRACTICAL ACQUISITION COSTS BECAUSE, I BELIEVE, EVERY GM KNOWS WHO IS DESPERATE FOR WHAT AND THEY SET IMMODESTLY HIFGH PRICES SUCH AS A d;ARNOUD, SYNDERGAARD OR WHEELER FOR THE OBVIOUSLY NEAR JETTISONMING GARBAGE U MAY NEED.

IN MY 50+ YEARS AT THIS METFAN CAREER I HAVE YET TO SEE ONE OF THOSE “BARGAINS”MATERIALIZE WITHOUT HAVING TO FIRST COUNT THE REMAINING FINGERS AFTER THE HANDSHAKE AT LEAST NOT WHEN WE’RE THE SHOPPER; SURELY JOE FOY’S GENERAL AVAIKLABILITY WAS WIDELY KNOWN & MANY SPECULATED ON THE # OF BATS & BALLS IT WOULD TAKE. GUESS WHAT!
METSIE, IN LIGHT OF OUR SEASON LONG BULLPEN STRUGGLE

From a financial point of view & considering the longterm survival of the ownership group they were absolutely inevitable.

I may be in the minority but I also feel resigning Reyes at the cost and term he was looking for would have been a bad investment. He’s a spark plug and an awesome ball player, but he is also a player whose game tremendously relies on his legs, which also happen to be the part of his body that he’s very susceptible to injuring (as we’ve seen time and time again). Add that to the fact that he’s not getting any younger and its a tough call. Jose was my favorite player on this team from his debut, but the mets have historically overpaid for high profile players and given them too many years ignoring the likelihood of an eventual decline so I have to respect them opting to not bring him back. People in this organization felt Tejada could be a formidable big league SS and they ran with that notion. This is the part I don’t necessarily agree with, though, aside from how the mets handled the negotiations with Jose.

Krod was very good in my honest opinion, but I can see the team not being impressed with his off field problems that brought bad press to the team during the year. This may very well have been weighed far too heavily by Alderson and company, but I don’t have an issue with sending Krod on his way either.

For me the problem isn’t that the Mets made the moves they made, its that there were no follow-up moves made to improve the current team, or more importantly the franchise’s future (with the exception of acquiring wheeler). With all of the money coming off the books the mets could have reinvested and made this team better sooner. Instead the money was frivilously spent on players like big Frank who was never a very good closer at any stop in his career. They brought people in who left a tremendous amount to be excited about and it feels like it was done just because those players were inexpensive. You can’t expect to keep the attention of such a passionate fan base in a huge media market by employing that strategy… and this is where the team has failed in its “rebuilding” process.