MetsBlog linked to this one yesterday but it’s a must-read, especially if you are of a certain age (which I think just I am.)
Here is what Pearlman wrote about the Foster acquisition, including a quote from then-Mets GM Frank Cashen:
In the winter of 1981-82, the New York Mets were Big Apple nobodies — a star-less, charisma-less franchise coming off of a miserable 41-62 strike-shortened season.
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Did Cashen think the former National League MVP was the missing piece that New York needed to turn itself into a winner? Hardly . . . “But signing George was a message to baseball and to our fans that we were in it to win,” Cashen said. “From here on out, we would do whatever it takes.”
This could be, verbatim, what most Mets fans have said about Granderson so far. A bad team who makes a signing of a charismatic former star in the hopes of putting butts in the seats and because they really “needed” to fill a spot on the roster.
via Granderson Signing Isn’t Jason Bay, Part 2, But It Ain’t Good Either | The Read Zone.
