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Edgy MD wrote:

I think we all have opinions but lack most of the pertinent facts. That includes Sherman, although he seems to think he has a pretty clear idea what went down at Minasian's dinner overture.


And I think this comes back to the 'not having a GM'.

If Billy Eppler is the guy - and he had decided 'that isn't how I'd spend $20 million' fair enough.

But the absence of leadership & direction comes back to Sandy Alderson and Steve Coen


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I dunno. I think Alderson and whoever else is there making decisions were able to decide how hard and with how much to pursue Syndergaard. Whether that turns out to be the best decision is a whole 'nuther thing. And that's all mostly luck anyways. When you get down to it, everything is mostly luck and nobody knows shit.



But the idea that the Mets are inert right now just because they haven't signed a new GM yet is overblown. Alderson probably knows Syndergaard just about better than any other exec in all of baseball.


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=Ceetar post_id=81354 time=1637257935 user_id=102]They didn't drive Syndergaard away, they just were going through the motions and someone swooped in with a good pitch and he took it.

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I really don't care that Syndergaard left. Likely did the team a favor. After professing his love for New York and his desire to remain a Met, his departure just seemed rather abrupt.



I think the $18.4 mil. of the quality offer made to Syndergaard would be better spent trying toward resign Stroman. At this point, I would much rather retain Stroman than to have kept Syndergaard.


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He seemed smarter than Harvey, but only half-smart in that he was all too willing to buy into his own self-promotion campaign. Counting David Wright, we've now seen three superheroes laid low before their time.



From the Wifey Watch thread, we learned that he seemed to like women who were a little on the wild side. His cockiness seemed more than a little over-calculated. Like, why did he have to ride side-saddle in the Céspedes show? Why did he have to build a campaign around Colón being tubby? Why did he have a fake feud with Mister? Can't he get his own act going?



He certainly had his fun, and his brand was certainly more entwined than most in the Mets brand. There's value in that.


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I love THOR, but objectively he has spent the past two years rehabbing and we don't know what he'll be. I'll take the draft pick and then hope Steve Cohen's money can two of Stroman and Scherzer/Gray/Rodon/Gausman to come here.



The Mets were always going to be the worst match for Syndergaard if he didn't take the QO because the moment he rejected it the Mets would have to be thinking that THEY were the ones giving up a second rounder if they signed him.

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The Hot Corner wrote:

I really don't care that Syndergaard left. Likely did the team a favor. After professing his love for New York and his desire to remain a Met, his departure just seemed rather abrupt.



I think the $18.4 mil. of the quality offer made to Syndergaard would be better spent trying toward resign Stroman. At this point, I would much rather retain Stroman than to have kept Syndergaard.


This is where I'm at.


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I heard rumors that Typewriter Chewing Gum was discontinuing its popular Mets cards for 2022, citing supply-chain gluts, a tight labor market, increased material costs, and an inability to clear right with the players and clubs. Is this true?


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I heard rumors that Typewriter Chewing Gum was discontinuing its popular Mets cards for 2022, citing supply-chain gluts, a tight labor market, increased material costs, and an inability to clear right with the players and clubs. Is this true?




Topps and Fanatics are spreading those rumors. Because they've got nothing like this on the market:



2019 Typewriter Chewing Gum Total Mets Team Set - Code Name: Holy Curt Gowdy!

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https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1460640168973639688


Straw - played ONE full season on the contract he got and was booted from two different teams before it was over.



Reyes -- three good, though not great, seasons on the four year deal he signed. Never came close to matching his walk-year season.

Played for three different franchises in those four years although, unlike Straw, that wasn't really his fault.



Thor - remains to be seen





And, look, I understand the whole 'gut punch' thing from a fan's perspective, especially from a younger fan, a concept that goes beyond whether or not the the subsequent deal

turned out to be "worth it". But sometimes the best signings over the long haul are the ones you don't make. I mean, we opted not to re-sign Keith or Cater also but both were

the right move.







I agree that losing Olerud was worse than any of the above (Steve Phillips made noises about him not being aggressive/RBI-ish enough for a middle of the order hitter as if his

top-shelf OBA numbers were somehow not part of the equation). Would have out-Zeile'd Zeile on those 2000-2002 squads.


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When I first saw the tweet post above, the formatted tweet wasn't loading, and I just saw Syndergaard's tweet without seeing who it was in response to, and for a moment I thought it was aimed at @BauerOutage.



So it made me think, "Hey, let's see what Trevor Bauer is up to!"




Good God, remind me to stay the fuck off of Twitter.


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Edgy MD wrote:

When I first saw the tweet post above, the formatted tweet wasn't loading, and I just saw Syndergaard's tweet without seeing who it was in response to, and for a moment I thought it was aimed at @BauerOutage.



So it made me think, "Hey, let's see what Trevor Bauer is up to!"




Yeah, I mean, you had to be able to guess that he'd still be a shitbag.


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That's pretty funny.


I literally LOLed. Still love ya, Noah.



And as to the gut-punch thing -- I purely mean *in the moment.* Not long-term, not "worst Mets decisions ever." Just free agency moves that were like WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT HE WAS OUR GUY.


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