The Rule 5 draft tomorrow and then back on a plane. I’ve been covering the Winter Meetings regularly since 1998 and this has been the slowest.
Take away the Marlins-Tigers deal and this has been a yawner.
Most everybody blames this on the Johan Santana situation, but with the way contracts are these days it is harder and harder to trade.
Personally, I can see Santana, Erik Bedard and Dan Haren all staying put.
The Mets? They’ll do something minor in the next few weeks. No blockbuster. Then again, did you really think there would?
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Isn’t this whole situation quite simple in reality?
1-The Mets package of prospects doesn’t approach that of other teams in the pursuit of Haren, Santana or Bedard.
2-In order to compete with other teams’ packages, the Mets will need to add Jose Reyes, John Maine or Oliver Perez.
Which leads to the question:
Will the Mets be better off with Haren, Santana or Bedard, but minus Reyes, Perez or Maine and at least 2 of our best prospects?
This whole farce of a Mets front office has been exposed again. They won’t spend the big bucks on anyone anymore, they have no creativity, they can’t deal from strengths they don’t have, and worst of all they are trying to convince their fandom that average players like Church and Schneider and Livan are really great additions. In 2008, we will be in the 2nd year of a long term slide once again. Whether it be bad GMs, bad ownership, bad luck, or any combination of them, Met fans once again see a good team not sustainable for long and will wait until the next decade for the next short run.
I know I for one won’t be filling the Wilpon coffers at their new palace with attitude they show the fans by not sustaining a winnong franchise. I know it will be filled but by 2011 it won’t and the rebuilding will be on in a hurry with a new GM who will be free for a year until we are close once again.
Speak up all you want Jimmy Rollins because Omar and the Wilpons aren’t going to shut you up with the team they have put together.
Bring in all the old Expos you want Omar. Yu didn’t win there and you won’t win here with them either. We are a suffering fan base and we appreciate you continuing our miserable tradition.
See ya all in April as we reap the rewards of a lousy front office. Do’t forget to blame Willie for not making any good decision with 2nd rate talent to win games.
Mr JD: what prospects has the great front office left off the 40 man this year? How about a poll of “Based on all the outstanding moves made by Omar, how many games will the Mets win next year?” I pick less than 81.
MR GS: No offense but the Mets don’t make big moves so the good question is irrelevant. Tease us once Omar, shame on us, tease us twice shame on you.
Wow, There are guys more turned off than I am!!!! Omar has become a bad GM. The Wilpons will always be bad owners.
It reached a low point for me yesterday when a couple of my Pirate fan pals asked me if we were going to any bobblehead day games at Shea? (For those who don’t know the Pirates sell out a game on every homestand with a boblehead). The Bengals have retunred to the Bungles and the Mets are once again becoming the Mutts.
The next biggest joke is the bozo from Metsblog ahas actually realized that Ryan Church ain’t gonna make a Santana trade happen. What a genius be he!
How are those Church jersies selling anyway, Wilpons?
Here it is in a nutshell in a quote from Willie R
“I’m a firm believer that every year you come to Spring Training, there’s always a sleeper and some guy who steps up and has a career year.”
You can say that he has to say this b/c they have not, to this point, gotten another SP.
But this is a philosophy of the team for 45 yrs-and it is not a philosophy that gets you a consistent winner.
Anyway, if Willis is available and all it takes is to pick Pudge’s salary and a couple of our crappy prospects I hope they don’t go cheap – but I’ll believe they are cheap until otherwise.
Then you could maybe get Santana for O Perez and a couple more of our crappy prospects. Just a dream but maybe that is all we have for 08-dreams.
I still think that if we had resigned our catcher gone out and got a good FA OF to man right and got wiffed on the big 3 pitchers for whatever reason. We could have had some journeyman pitcher to help fill the loss of Glavine and been at least as good as last years team.
We still would have all the young OF and our young pitchers and hope someone breaks out.
All it would cost is $$ and perhaps a comp pick for the coming draft.
This would allow LM of CG to prove they belong by rotating in OF for the day off game or when Alou gets hurt. Same for Pelf/Humber.
Your pitching wouldn’t be better but at least your team is about the same.
Not sure what this team is thinking.