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Are you sure it wasn't just the Yankees not wanting the World Series to take away from their blockbuster moves?

Ceetar wrote: I mean, the Mets aren't going make only one move regardless. In my heart, I believe and hope this to be true...but this statement is not a certainty. Presumed health and internal roster machinations haven't gotten the job done over the past 6 years. Am I being greedy for wanting more than a handful of extra wins?

It's not about marketing Cuddyer, but rather management possibly implying that any one move is the only or best move. I don't see this team as just one player away. I hope the team gets shaken up. Move Murphy. Move Wheeler. Change some parts. With all the young arms, I think there are several options to re-think the roster without spending a bunch more money in the short term. But I can't take the rinse and repeat of adding a marginal player and somehow thinking the team is on track to win more than 80 games. Cuddyer would be a great pick up...as a supporting addition in conjunction with other moves.

Edgy MD wrote: ...it seems to be a little out there to speculate on the Mets marketing this guy as a playoff ticket or a "total solution for a winning season." Not a direct marketing campaign, but it did "leak" that Sandy thought that GRANDERSON + YOUNG - HARVEY= 90 WINS last spring. Still, I really like Cuddyer as a piece because he could fit multiple secondary needs, provide depth and (because he is a FA) require less risk than a trade of one of our valuable arms.

I gave up on following Cerrone years ago.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Here's what's good about the Royals being in the WS: Next season, guess who'll be the team that hasn't won a World Series in 29 years? Yup...I've been thinking this all fall.

I like Cuddyer a lot as a FA pickup...as long as he's not sold by management as the total solution for a winning season in 2015.

Edgy MD wrote: Lefthanded pitchers? Well, this might make them 10% more likely to trade Gee over Niese. I was thinking the same. Maybe 2% more likely to trade Wheeler over Niese, too.

Harper, Freeman, Heyward, Jones, Howard must be salivating. Maybe LaRoche, too.

6 months away and I already have butterflies. I'm optimistic about 2015.

I'm rooting for either AL team that advances. No one needs another STL or SF championship.

Maybe. I just know that if it were Piazza (or any other Met) that avoided the questions from Congress in order to not call himself out as a liar, I would have been embarrassed.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Nothing bad has ever happened to the Cardinals. Can you think of one?

Ceetar wrote: the only negative is them not slapping the Cardinals around in '06. This. Still haven't forgiven them for that.

Dodgers over Tigers.

Give me the Royals.

Ventura signed an extension back in January that looks like it will keeps him in Chicago thru 2016....though the internet references with details are sketchy at best. http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2014-01-25/contract-extension-in-hand-robin-ventura-plots-white-sox-improvements

I snapped this prior to the game. I'm hoping Mr. Met was giving Sandy advise on how to field a winner in 2015.

I think Kevin's got the goods to be doing primetime football games for the NFL someday. Good luck, KB!

Ha! No...the free shirt Friday and game is enough for me. We have enough running around to do during our 3 days in NYC.

I've officially purchased tickets for the Astros/Mets on Friday the 26th at Citi as part of the vacation that wifey and I are taking to NYC. If anyone else is going to be at that game, let me know. I'd love to meet you!

I'm not sure that Wally is the right guy (mostly because I haven't paid close attention to him in Vegas)...but, I don't think it is any secret that I have doubts about Terry being the right guy going forward either. I truly believe (it's cynical, I know) that Terry was hired to be a placeholder while the team got through the financial mess left over from the Madoff thing. I don't think it was ever the intention of ownership or management that he was going to lead them to consistent victory...not that Terry was incapable, but rather they knew that the talent provided to him was going to be touch and go during the rebuild that they never were going to term a "rebuild" and they wanted someone with the skills to manage the team through losing seasons while still keeping hope and morale as high as possible. I do think Terry has done his best at that. If Terry would have happened to succeed during his time, then it would be considered a bonus by the club, but not the expectation. Considering Backman's success with the AAA club and given the fact that there is some young talent that is now going to find itself on the big league club in '15 that was part of Backman's success in LV, I would not be surprised if he got the promotion. He would provide a young spark to a younger team looking to compete. I would also consider it an unspoken sign that the unspoken "rebuild" is nearing completion.

I'll be with 60 Brewers fans at a company outing, so probably Milwaukee (save for Braun). I am looking forward to an exciting game in a divisional race. Mostly, I'm going to try to keep my head in the scorecard and keep my mouth shut. I will be wearing my new 7-Line shirt, though. OE: I do know there will be one other Mets fan there (boyfriend of a co-worker), so I'm sure we will trade some thoughts on the orange and blue.

I'll be in Milwaukee for the Brewers/Cards matchup this evening. Milwaukee finally snapped a bad losing streak last night but now find themselves 3 games back in the Central after leading the race most of the season. They still have five games against the first place Cardinals left, though. This will be my first non-Mets game in a while and my first live meaningful September game in a while.

Terry Collings: 626 games of .465 ball for the NYM Wally Backman: 2014 PCL Manager of the Year I'm not a a Backman backer, but something's not right here if Collins is retained. I'm less optimistic about 2015 than I was two months ago.