Re-Sign Reyes NOW!!!!

[TransMonk]

Vic Sage wrote: well, that means he won't actually play against us more than 12-14 times a year. And if he's had a good season, we might not see him at all at the end.

BOC!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

TransMonk wrote: Vic Sage wrote: well, that means he won't actually play against us more than 12-14 times a year. And if he's had a good season, we might not see him at all at the end. BOC!

I confess if took me a while to get this. Nice job!

[Edgy MD]

Reports have the Marlins in for three years. ~$60 million.

Healthy, but I imagine he'll keep browsing.

[metsmarathon]

whither hanley?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

"reports" i.e., John Harper's shitty column advocating that Sandy Alderson publicly declare the team out of the Reyes sweepstakes and by extension, the 2012 season. He also "reports" that the Mets' likely offer would be ~80 million for 4 years.

[metirish]

Kevin Kernan in the Post has this song from Reyes as a sign of Jose's true feelings

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"No Hay Amigo" - means there are no friends

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/that_rap_hiLkoTNe7WQBo73416Y02L

Edited November 9, 2011 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, it looks like most, if not all, of the stories have Harper DNA.

Kiernan definitely wins the Dumb of the Day Award.

[metirish]

Dumb as shit but apparently Kernan takes this seriously, he actually wrote this

In his song and video �No Hay Amigo�� that was released in July, Reyes sings the following powerful words:

�There are no friends. A friend is a dollar in my pocket. As soon as you turn your back your friends want to stab you in the back. A real friend is a glass full of water in the desert to quench your thirst. ... Where were you when I used to practice without any food to eat or when I used to spend a week with the same T-shirt? There are no friends. My friends are my mother and my father, the ones who struggled with me to make me who I am.�� The Mets are no longer Reyes� friends. The Mets are financially strapped and seemed to have taken the following approach when it comes to their game plan for getting back into the thick of the NL East race some day: �Let�s wait until the Phillies get old.�� Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/that_rap_hiLkoTNe7WQBo73416Y02L#ixzz1dEVIJYbf

[Edgy MD]

The Apple wasn't particularly funny, but it gets points for going the way it did before reading Kiernan's article.

With no NBA, the Reyes Sweepstakes is going to get a lot of mid-week backpage ink, news or no.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: The Apple wasn't particularly funny, but it gets points for going the way it did before reading Kiernan's article. With no NBA, the Reyes Sweepstakes is going to get a lot of mid-week backpage ink, news or no.

also, The Apple is an onion-style parody and supposedly Kiernan is a 'legitimate journalist'.

[Edgy MD]

i think that's abundantly clear.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: i think that's abundantly clear.

I think reasserting is helpful to realize how differently the words are treated, despite often being pretty similiar.

[Edgy MD]

Heyman sayeth that the Giants are cold.

Marlins still hot. Tigers and Brewers warm.

Nats are warmish. Mets are the Mets. It's all just noise!

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Heyman sayeth that the Giants are cold. Marlins still hot. Tigers and Brewers warm. Nats are warmish. Mets are the Mets. It's all just noise!

Is this on the Kelvin scale?

[Edgy MD]

Walt Jocketty has been in meetings this week formulating the Reds budget. It sounds like the the club did not suddenly discover an extra $10 or $20 million. That means another year of mostly being on sidelines when it comes to free agent shopping. So no calls to agents for Jose Reyes or C.J. Wilson. �Oh, God, no,� Jocketty said. �We�d love to but we won�t be doing anything like that. We�ve got to be more creative.�

That's one!

[G-Fafif]

Utterly misleading, typically careless MetsBlog headline (it's a hardhat, in deference to the construction site, not a "helmet"), but still chilling.

The video:

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[Edgy MD]

A Marlins source returning from the Cespedes workout relayed to Marlins broadcaster that Reyes is "almost a done deal."

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's a bit hard to believe. Unless Jose's plan all along was to be a Marlin (like it was with Darryl and the Dodgers) I would think that there's still a way to go with this.

[Edgy MD]

Agreed. But maybe they made the old pre-emptive offer, and that three-year stuff was crap.

And maybe he does want to be a Marlin --- live in a Dominican clime and such.

Maybe.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I suppose that's a definite possibility. I don't think he's in "I wanna get out of New York" mode like Darryl was, but he may have no interest at all in places like Detroit and Milwaukee. Maybe if the Marlins make him a good offer, and the Mets won't top it/match it/come close, he'll be done shopping.

[TransMonk]

Maybe he REALLY wants to wear contruction worker orange and fell in love with the new unis.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

If you play the B side of his raaggaetron record backward, the lyrics clearly spell it out.

[seawolf17]

Someone update the 2012 Roster thread STAT, just in case.

[Centerfield]

FUCK THE MARLINS

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I call BS. There is no real advantage to signing soon. Even if he is blown away by an offer, he can play one team against the other for a while -- or, in the case of ARod and the Rangers, play a team against itself.

[metirish]

@Ken_Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal
Sources: #Marlins have made substantial offers to both Reyes and Pujols. #STLCards #Mets #mlb

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Looking forward to the 2013 dismantling already.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: @Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal Sources: #Marlins have made substantial offers to both Reyes and Pujols. #STLCards #Mets #mlb

*snicker* I kinda doubt it. What, they're going to suddenly had $50++ million a year to the payroll?

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: @Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal Sources: #Marlins have made substantial offers to both Reyes and Pujols. #STLCards #Mets #mlb *snicker* I kinda doubt it. What, they're going to suddenly had $50++ million a year to the payroll?

I wouldn't be surprised, need to fill that new stadium.

[Centerfield]

WE GONNA FUCKING LOSE HIM. OFFER 7 YEARS NOW!!!!