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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Jayson Stark, ESPN.com wrote: The buzz coming out of Flushing is that the Mets have very little interest in waiting around this winter for Jose Reyes to decide whether to stay or bolt. One source who's tight with the Mets brass tells Rumblings they're "either going to be in or out real quick." The Mets' baseball people haven't met yet to lay out their offseason game plan. But if Reyes' preference is to test the market, collect offers and then ask the Mets to counter, there are indications that the Mets don't want to play by that script. And Reyes' lackluster second half (.277/.316/.378, with only six stolen-base ATTEMPTS) only figures to reinforce their reluctance to do anything crazy right out of the chute to keep him from exploring the market. I'm not opposed to that , I'd like a quick resolution too. There are a lot of holes to fill and no point wasting time on a "will he, won't he" scenario.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder... did they bring the bananas into the ballpark? Or buy them at a Citi Field concession stand for eight bucks each? which would further the embarrassment.

Probably embarrassed to be seen at a Mets game.....talking to bananas.

Figures Craig Counsell is a genius, it explains him still being in the majors.

Miguel Batista, author of nightmarish Mets pitching.........kidding

I'm disappointed not to have heard from Alderson on this, unless I missed it his next comment will be his first.I'm disappointed because this is the sort of thing I thought he would have stood up for, ex marine and all that , it's like he has disappeared.

Saw a tweet that this four game sweep was the first by the Nats over the Mets since they were in Montreal , that 2003 season the Expos swept two four gamers from the Mets.

Upon reflection this squad doesn't deserve to wear the hats.

Options are not guaranteed even though it's a guaranteed contract?

Edgy DC wrote: Yeah, I think we all know that prospects don't come with guarantees. This thread is all over the place. Back on point Jason Bay is terrible.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Edgy DC wrote: To which anybody who gives it seven seconds of thought would reply, "So, build a second wall two and a half feet in front of that. My uncle Kenny pours concrete and can give them a nice deal." Exactly. It can be a cheap padded free-standing wall like the one they had at Shea. I bet they can get it installed for just a couple of thousand bucks. cash money baby, Jeff wastes more on awful haircuts.

Edgy DC wrote: I just don't like walkup music. Ah, ok, thought you just didn't like DJ Willie.

Edgy DC wrote: Willie, please concentrate on what you do when you actually reach the plate. ah come on , didn't expect this from you.I'm sure rubbish like this helps get them all through the season, they can still have fun even though they are crap.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: This is 2014, mind you; let's put it this way-- if 3 of Wheeler/Harvey/Mejia/Familia haven't been up and in the majors for a year by then, something will have gone terribly, terribly wrong. I want to hold you on this , well, not you per se but curious to see where these guys will be in 2013/14, of course in the majors doesn't have to mean in the majors with the Mets.

metirish wrote: Yes, the Mets address officially out. huh?, predictive text on a phone...

Fucking Bay is so dour......

Yes, the Mets address officially out.

TransMonk wrote: Oakland A's Has Moneyball opened yet?

Release him and just eat the remaining salary?, even if the organization was flush with money I don't see them doing it, easy to say waive him. Mesoraco must be real good if Bowden is willing to trade away Grandal.

I know that!.....having some fun.....reminds me of former ROI soccer international Jason McAteer ordering a pizza and when asked if he wanted it cut into eight slices he said "no, four please,I'm not that hungry".

Willets Point wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Four divisions of six please... Do the other six teams get relegated? I think he meant six divisions of four

April 24, 25, 26 vs. Miami take a bit of getting used too.. September looks awesome if we are in a race September 1, 2 at Miami 3, 4, 5 at St. Louis 7, 8, 9 vs. Atlanta 10, 11, 12 vs. Washington 14, 15, 16 at Milwaukee 17, 18, 19 vs. Philadelphia 21, 22, 23 vs. Miami 24, 25, 26, 27 vs. Pittsburgh 28, 29, 30 at Atlanta October 1, 2, 3 at Miami

Tracksuit weighs in and says the outrage is "outsized" , the issue is silly but lays blame all over the place Outrage over Mets not wearing caps of NYPD, FDNY, PAPD on 9/11 shows how pain of day still lingers The National Football League spray-painted ribbons onto its fields. Baseball sewed flag patches onto its teams' hats. Video tributes were everywhere. Sports did its best on Sunday to wrap its 9/11 remembrances in glossy, sentimental and simplified packages. Honor the 10th anniversary, but make sure it goes down easily, so we can shake it off, enjoy the games and buy the licensed memorabilia. But Cap Flap at Citi Field, a story that grew legs and walked all the way to midweek, came roaring out of the darkness to provide the most fitting remembrance of all: It was disheartening, complex and irrational, just like the legacy of 9/11 itself. For all of its silliness, this hat issue cut deeply, and taught us about ourselves. Mistakes and overreactions by every party - Major League Baseball, Mets management, Mets players - showed how raw 9/11 remains in New York, and how we are still unable to deal with it cleanly. No one behaved well, but the outrage inspired by each piece of this story was outsized. To catalog the missteps: * Despite a desire to 1) create uniformity in its policies and 2) profit from the sale of game-worn 9/11 caps, MLB should have just let the Mets wear first responder hats during Sunday's game. For what it's worth, New Era, which manufactured the American flag hats used in all MLB games Sunday, said it would not have objected to the Mets wearing first responder hats, as the team so memorably did in 2001. "Whatever Major League Baseball decided, we would have supported that decision," New Era spokeswoman Dana Marciniak told the Daily News' Michael O'Keeffe Tuesday. It is difficult not to conclude that MLB, tempted by memorabilia money, made an odious calculation. MLB reps did not return calls for official comment Tuesday. * Mets management should have told its players to ignore the edict and do what they felt was right. There have been conflicting claims about potential fines that would have been levied on players and/or the team, but one suspects the amount would have been affordable for anyone wishing to stand on principle. * Some Mets veteran should have spared 24-year-old Josh Thole from acting as the face of the team on this issue just because he is the union representative. Thole conducted himself with with grace, but was in an unfair position. None of those offenses was surprising, or worthy of the attention and outrage they received. But that is where Cap Flap was instructive: It swallowed efforts to keep 9/11 tributes simple. It pounded us with an inconvenient truth - most of us are not ready to look back on an event that has not yet left us. The decade since those towers fell has brought economic and political gloom. It brought two wars. It brought a presidency that first represented racial breakthrough, and descended for many into disappointment. It brought unrelated, but still momentous, calamities such as the D.C. sniper, Katrina and 10% unemployment. The cloud of that day has not lifted, and we are not ready for simple retrospectives. We can try, but reality comes raging in. That is why this latest Mets controversy, though even weirder than K-RodGate or Walter ReedGate or New YorkerGate, is so telling - and so appropriate. At a time when many of us still change the channel rather than watch footage of those buildings falling, when we are tired from 10 years of worry about our country and nervous about 10 more - when all that is still happening, it makes sense that we would go crazy for a few days about a 9/11-related issue, because nothing related to those memories is trivial. Buy Mets Tickets Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2011/09/14/2011-09-14_cant_keep_911_under_hat.html#ixzz1Xw8ZlXfI

seawolf17 wrote: Adam Rubin wrote: And the union rep, Josh Thole, was put in an awful position. He's 24 years old and really just was drafted to be player rep because no one else was interested. A veteran could have stood up in the clubhouse and told the team they're going ahead and doing this. But that leadership wasn't there. Holy fuck, that's a scathing indictment of this team. Nobody on this team has the compunction to stand up and be the player rep? Forget Wright and Reyes for a minute -- a guy like Byrdak or Capuano or Bay who's been around the league for a while, a senior voice? You hand that to a 24-year-old kid? Frig. I honestly don't know why I care about this team so much. This, I know I was shocked when I read that thole was union rep, I believe Edgy was too.As Rubin explains it above it really looks terrible on the team. I remember guys like Glavine , Traschel and Lieter took this job really seriously.

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