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I guess that'd be a soft-off.

Dodgers would have to eat much contract to make this work.

About Alfredo Aceves

Gee, Boras wishes the Mets would spend more money. Never saw that coming. Breaking: Sun to rise in East tomorrow.

Ceetar wrote: bah, NHL does it all the time. Sure, just make sure the Mets are wearing pads, gloves, helmets with visors, and are carrying long sticks when they walk out. Then they'll be fine.

As an every-game routine, I think this can only end badly. They'll be searching fans for eggs and overripe fruit at the entrances. When it's a surprise, it's cool. When it's expected there's a real potential for mayhem.

The Mets, for whatever reason (Cheapness? Lack of imagination? Fear of success?) just don't know how to promote this team. Fred's always been a Dodger fan; if he could buy the LA Dodgers and move them to Brooklyn, he'd do it in a heartbeat, Mets be damned. And I think that Fred got out ahead of himself when Citi was planned. "Holy shit, I CAN BUILD MY OWN EBBETS FIELD!" he thought. And so it was. If Abe Stark were still selling suits, he'd have put a sign there instead of the yellow Subway sign. His Dodger-love was so obvious when you had a Jackie Fucking Robinson Rotunda, but nothing dedicated to the history of the Mets, and no blue and orange anywhere in the ballpark. It was like, "Damn, I own the Mets, but I wish I had the team I really loved." Now obviously Fred wants to win with the Mets since he knows he's never getting the Dodgers. But there's a schizophrenic feel to the whole organization. While he wishes he could have the Dodgers, everybody else (including Jeff) is disappointed that they're not the Yankees. The Yankees don't have to promote stuff- they're the YANKEES. Promoting a team is hard especially when you're being beaten 27-2 where it counts. In the 80's, when things admittedly were being run differently, there seemed to be at least the attempt to generate excitement ('Catch the Rising Stars') even if we laugh at it now. That was replaced eventually by the obnoxious classic 'Show up at Shea' which meant that if things weren't good, it was YOUR fault, dammit. Now it's a case of, 'We built you a new ballpark, what else do you want?' Easy, low-hanging fruit in the baseball-promotion biz is just ignored by these people (like a Rusty's rib joint). It's like they know they can't be as popular as the Yankees so they don't even try. They even show Derek Jeter Ford commercials on Met broadcasts. Odds of a David Wright commercial appearing on a Yankee broadcast? Zero. It's a lot of little stuff that just grates on you after a while. There just doesn't seem to be a plan to market this team.

God, those are awfully ugly. You know, it's possible to honor the military without trying to look like them. Like giving returning veterans a job. Pardon my soapbox, but these are like the magnetic yellow ribbons people put on their cars after 9/11. A meaningless exercise which creates the appearance of giving a crap. (Apologies in advance for anyone who did, but those always annoyed me.) It's like the pink shoes in football. Like Richie Incognito gave a crap about breast cancer. Okay, off the soapbox, running and hiding.

What's really needed are two trap doors for them to stand on.

Wow. Went to Turner Field in 2007, and while it wasn't great, it wasn't terrible. Much better scoreboard than Citi has even now. And a newsflash- the traffic is terrible ANYWHERE in and around Atlanta. Their 'interchange' location will be calamitous on game nights.

Not the person you want to build around for the future. His biggest asset will be minimized by Citi. Pass.

Only way this happens is if Trump buys the team. "Jeff Wilpon! You're fired!!!!"

Mets don't have a problem with substance abusers, as Marlon Byrd and Guillermo Mota can attest. But I'm betting someone else snatches him up. Tigers are set at short for a while and didn't need him.

We already have Fecal. Furcal could do no worse.

The chains and padlock are kinda sexy.

Giants fan. And my wife, having been born in Brooklyn, would have been a Dodger fan. And we'd probably have fought like cats and dogs and never gotten married. I'd lurch from one meaningless relationship to another, never finding the female Giants fan of my dreams. Growing more despondent, I'd probably wind up face down in a ditch. So, it's probably better that the Giants and Dodgers moved to California.

Not sure I could watch that leg 35 times a year. It gives me the heebie-jeebies. But certainly a serviceable arm.

Eh, for a one-year lo-ball deal, sure. Beats the hell out of any of our other options.

Sure, all that's true, but I watched them win that World Series and I said to myself, "Bobby Valentine will never manage again".

That, my friends, is one helluva place to get married.

the MFYs re-upped THE CAPTAIN for next year, paying him more than they would have had to under the option of his contract.

"I won't shake your hand until you tell me where The Schmooze is."

....ah, just kidding. Mets decline Johan Santana�s $25 million option Aaron Gleeman Nov 1, 2013, 2:04 PM EDT Johan Santana is officially a free agent, as the Mets declined his $25 million option for 2014 and paid him a $5.5 million buyout. It was obviously a no-brainer move, as Santana missed the entire season following shoulder surgery and is no sure thing to be ready for the beginning of next year. He�ll likely be looking for an incentive-laden one-year contract on the open market and publicly at least the Mets have indicated they�re interested in re-signing him for a much, much lower price. Santana last saw action in an MLB game on August 17, 2012. He ended up throwing 717 innings with a 3.18 ERA for the Mets while making $137.5 million.

Don't take that Tone with me.....

Mrs. Hawkins didn't come on the trip, so I guess it was a case of Lava or Lever.