yeah, brooklyn has a million more people than philly does fit into almost half the land mass, and they're not all hip

10/6 NYTimes wrote:Mets Seeking Banks’ Help With Heavy Debt

new day, same old debt service

Drollery from the GM:

NYTimes wrote:General Manager Sandy Alderson said on Wednesday that as he tried to extend the contracts of the team’s two stars, pitcher R. A. Dickey and third baseman David Wright, he would make clear that “we will not in the near future have unlimited funds.”

At this point, the priority for the Mets has to be getting cheap players that have fan appeal. Something like what they did in that movie Major League. Evaluate players solely on the basis of fan appeal, or potential fan appeal.

Fan appeal = dudes who win ballgames

Barry Jive wrote:Fan appeal = dudes who win ballgames

They can't afford those dudes. I mean crappy cheap players people don't hate. Rico Brogna types.

rico brogna didn't bring one person into the vet, though.

Well, point is: They can't afford to let Wright and Dickey go to free agency because they have very little in the pipeline that comes close to their talent right now. They have to get at least one and probably both, and they can probably do it. Santana's and Bay's salaries are gone after next season. Pelfrey is gone if he's not non-tendered this off-season, which would cut a bloated salary. Frank Francisco is gone. Beyond that, the only guys they have under control are Manny Acosta (entering arb 2) and Jon Niese, who will have $21.15 million left on his deal at that point. That's the entirety of their salary commitments in 2014 (excepting buyouts for Santana and Bay).

He says that knowing he's going to get Wright and Dickey, knowing those will be large commitments for the club. But I'm fairly confident they're going to have their fair share of cash to throw around at a certain point. Wright and Dickey are enough to start build a team around, and they can certainly find a willing taker on the free agent market who will at least acquit them of the Jason Bay signing.

You forgot Bonilla

Barry Jive wrote:Well, point is: They can't afford to let Wright and Dickey go to free agency because they have very little in the pipeline that comes close to their talent right now. They have to get at least one and probably both, and they can probably do it. Santana's and Bay's salaries are gone after next season. Pelfrey is gone if he's not non-tendered this off-season, which would cut a bloated salary. Frank Francisco is gone. Beyond that, the only guys they have under control are Manny Acosta (entering arb 2) and Jon Niese, who will have $21.15 million left on his deal at that point. That's the entirety of their salary commitments in 2014 (excepting buyouts for Santana and Bay).

He says that knowing he's going to get Wright and Dickey, knowing those will be large commitments for the club. But I'm fairly confident they're going to have their fair share of cash to throw around at a certain point. Wright and Dickey are enough to start build a team around, and they can certainly find a willing taker on the free agent market who will at least acquit them of the Jason Bay signing.

The problem with them allocating a lot of $$ to making sure Dickey sticks around long term is the guy turns 38 in a couple of weeks. I know he doesn't throw hard, but I'm not sure how much of a rush I'd be to extend him if I was in charge there, especially when his value can't really be any higher than it is now.

Can't wait until Wright is a phillies.

WFAN finally found an FM home....101.9

Has the world really come to the point where they'd rather listen to Fatcessa and Steve Somers than great oldies music of the 60s and 70s?

cshort wrote:You forgot Bonilla

Bonilla is also being paid $500,000 annually by the Baltimore Orioles until 2015 for a similar buyout and he holds a “special assistant” job with MLB that pays him $200,000 a year.

Dude must be the greatest blackmailer of all time.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2 ... t-25-years

Mets kinda already fucked up by publically stating that they'll start with 100 million and go from there. these negotiations will be great

Or preventative cover up measures when the make little real effort to resign him. WE OFFERED HIM BIG MONEY, HE TURNED US DOWN

wasn't that the theme of their 2011 offseason

Wheels Tupay wrote:

cshort wrote:You forgot Bonilla

Bonilla is also being paid $500,000 annually by the Baltimore Orioles until 2015 for a similar buyout and he holds a “special assistant” job with MLB that pays him $200,000 a year.

Dude must be the greatest blackmailer of all time.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2 ... t-25-years

For some reason, I send him a check for $50 a month.

TenuredVulture wrote:

Wheels Tupay wrote:

cshort wrote:You forgot Bonilla

Bonilla is also being paid $500,000 annually by the Baltimore Orioles until 2015 for a similar buyout and he holds a “special assistant” job with MLB that pays him $200,000 a year.

Dude must be the greatest blackmailer of all time.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2 ... t-25-years

For some reason, I send him a check for $50 a month.

He made my wife participate in Jus Primae Noctis with him.

Monkeyboy wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

Wheels Tupay wrote:

cshort wrote:You forgot Bonilla

Bonilla is also being paid $500,000 annually by the Baltimore Orioles until 2015 for a similar buyout and he holds a “special assistant” job with MLB that pays him $200,000 a year.

Dude must be the greatest blackmailer of all time.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2 ... t-25-years

For some reason, I send him a check for $50 a month.

He made my wife participate in Jus Primae Noctis with him.

Well fuckin' A, I wondered what that BB box on my pay stub was for. It's only 4.67 every two weeks, but still.