Ceetar wrote: If you wait around for the team to be the 'best on paper' and 'look like a winner' you might never get there. How long do you wait around until this team feels like a winner? Bottom line is they're playing roughly .500 baseball, and slightly better after a slow start, and will be adding David Freaking Wright mid-season. Why would the Mets decide to look in the mirror and decide to just play out the string, whatever, lets put the Bisons in? Why would the front office, with August being the make or break month in attendance, decide that it'd be better to roll the dice on next year instead of tweaking the team to be a good one? They have to think that the difference in attendance, interest and revenue for an August team sans a closer and RF slugger, etc and one where they maybe add a reliever or a bench guy and win some big games is huge. You are joking, right?