Michael Kay (who doesn’t care about Football Giants fans, see previous post) explained the potential Ramirez-to-Marlins trade. The Marlins are supposedly asking Boston to pay $7 million of the contract. With a third of the season left, that means the Red Sox are going to pay $7 million of a third of the $20 million contract – so basically the Marlins would get Manny for free.
If Boston is willing to pay to not have this guy, I’m glad he’s not coming to Flushing.
Great trade by the Yankees today. They get a player who can play catcher every day. While the Mets Police are major proponents of winning with home grown players, in this case the home grown player Posada is out for the year. So this is like the 2000 Mets getting Mike Bordick. Pudge will never be “a Yankee” but the real Yankees, which I think now might be just Jeter, shouldn’t be punished because a dude got injured.
Congratulations to Suzuki of Seattle on his 3,000th hit. Mets Police salute the achievement of the player whose first name is Ichiro, and think he should be in the Hall of Fame when he is done playing. Mets Police do not support a player wearing his first name on the uniform (to be fair it was not Suzuki’s idea) and definitely do not approve of television networks listing his as anything other than Suzuki. If a player on the Mets wore say “Jose 7” the blog would need a new editor in chief because the original Mets Police Commissioner would be hospitalized. Regardless, that is a conversation for another day – congratulations to Suzuki!
