My perverse wish

[Edgy MD]

Centerfield wrote: I wrote that everybody should be fired. I never said anything about blowing up anything.

I didn't really think there was any distinction between these two statements.

No, you never said anything about dumping pitchers. I didn't say you did. My use of "blowing up" was meant to characterize blowing up the organization, as you advocated. Firing everybody. I disagreed with that.

If you didn't seriously mean he should be fired, you didn't. I'm not sure when to take you seriously, though. Especially when your statement is preceded by the word "Seriously." I'm not clear then what we're talking about here. Maybe "seriously" only applied to the part of the paragraph that preceded the one-word sentence "Seriously." If so, my misunderstanding.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I'm going with the theory that Sandy Alderson is the Petyr Baelish of Major League Baseball, pulling all the strings behind the scenes, even going so far as making the Nationals feel that they're the kings before cutting them down like the Braves and Phillies before them. Now the culmination of his cunning plan has come to light in the form of Mets dominance.

[Centerfield]

I wrote that everybody should be fired. I never said anything about blowing up anything. I didn't really think there was any distinction between these two statements. No, you never said anything about dumping pitchers. I didn't say you did. My use of "blowing up" was meant to characterize blowing up the organization, as you advocated. Firing everybody. I disagreed with that. If you didn't seriously mean he should be fired, you didn't. I'm not sure when to take you seriously, though. Especially when your statement is preceded by the word "Seriously." I'm not clear then what we're talking about here. Maybe "seriously" only applied to the part of the paragraph that preceded the one-word sentence "Seriously." If so, my misunderstanding.

Summary of My Position:

End of June: Sandy had done a bad job. Depending on my level of anger, I fluctuated between just criticizing him, to calling for him to be fired.

Now: Sandy has since done a great job. He has done everything that I had asked or could ask him to do. It took a lot of luck and good fortune, but we'll take it. I am no longer angry with him. I no longer want him fired.

[Lefty Specialist]

I should be fired for starting this thread.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I understand where people are exaggerating to make their case, this whole thread is an example of it, but the reason I wouldn't have advocated a 12-game losing streak being good for the Mets, other than the obviously counterproductivity of it, is the fact that considering the club at "full strength" when it was there, gave us probably the best looking spring training team I can remember as a fan, and also, the 11 game win streak right off the bat in April. I know the back end of that streak was largely the result of momentum from the first half, but taking those two things togetrher, and given some hope that Wright and d"Arnaud would return, had to give even pessimistic root-for-losing-streak fans some evidence that it could be done with the talent Alderson had assembled at the time the season began. Its a process!