Fred said things that you or I might say.
The problem is that when you or I say them there is little fall-out. I won’t have reporters asking me what I meant. The players won’t have to react to something said on Mets Police.
What happens when Sandy meets with an opposing GM and has to play a weak hand because the GM knows that the Mets are unlikely to pay Reyes? It will be very easy to say to Sandy that they can just sign Jose in December.
Hey David Wright, face of the franchise…you’re no superstar.
How is David supposed to react to that when the reporters stalk him?
When David’s turn to be a free agent comes does he stand with Fred and listen to the speech about what he means to the franchise…or should David set up shop elsewhere? Google “Dick Young Tom Seaver” to see how that plays out.
How do you convince a free agent player to come to Flushing? Ownership will have your back?
Does Jose’s agent ask Fred to move him now? Does David’s??
As for the rest of you Mets…the owner thinks you are a “shitty team.” Somewhere in that there must be some frustration with either Omar or Sandy, no?
Again – none of this is anything fans don’t say to other fans. When Fred says it, it comes with a week of circus.
This is yet another completely unnecessary drama.
Today should be about “why is David Wright in LA” or complaining about the Subway Series (remember the series against the Yankees? Seems like weeks ago now).
I can’t wait to see the spin, and the individual player reactions.
Oh, and when it calms down we’re gonna discuss the Dodgers thing at length…just not today.
Your thoughts?
I have no problem with what Fred said about Reyes Beltran and Wright.
However the media is having a great day with this story and all the met bashers are out in full force.
Jeff Wilpon will have to clear up his father mess by issuing a statement later today saying my father spoke out of context(yeah right) and we love Carlos Jose and David.
Just another day in the life of a Mets Fan.
My thoughts? Win and you get paid. That is how New York works. There was never a more combustible personality in the New York Sports scene than George Stienbrenner. When the time won he was celebrated by their fans. When the team tanked in the late 1980s and early 1990s he was reviled.
The Yankees fans chanted at the original Yankee Stadium in 1995 that George must stay away, even as they were in the playoffs a mere 12 months away from their first title in 17 years.
By the end of his life the modern Yankee fan who is in their early to mid 20s or younger thinks of Stienbrenner as a benevolent Santa Claus of baseball owners, who would never stop adding to their team no matter the cost with the purpose of winning it all only.
Point is, free agents come to get paid period. We live in the embodiment of the show me the money marketplace.
Bigger problem for Wilpon/Kats ownership group today is…
Does a free agent believe the check won’t bounce.
back in the days before free agency,you had a good year,you got a raise.
had a bad year,you got a pay cut. end of story.
remember from time to time you would see a picture of the players in the general managers office,singing their contract for the up comming season in the news papers?
did you see a agent standing with them?
If I were making $15 Million a year, I would laugh it off…as a fan, it doesn’t bother me, becase I know I won’t put my heart into this team until ownership changes. Luckily that is closer than ever.
The real face of the franchise wears #7.
wilpons comments were not taken out of content, he said what was on his mind, i do not consider them tirades in a earth shattering tone based on a article that was written when the mets got off to a bad start.
all i hear is trade reyes ,wright and beltran to teams that want to “win now” by the deadline come july(including me)
now i feel if the mets really want to look to the future, they should keep reyes. does he love newyork? is he happy with the mets ? does he think “im young, ihope i get traded to a team with the best shot at a world series ?”
(bay area stations started the lets get reyes mind set).
the best thing that can happen at this point is to wrap up reyes and forget about a article that makes wilpon look like “steinbrenner jr.”…not a bad way to sell tickets either.
Wilpon is an idiot.
Let’s say that he and Alderson are in agreement that a big contract for Reyes is not in the team’s future. There are two ways he can go, one being a trade leading into the deadline, the other being an exit via free agency. The best the Mets can do in the deal would be to maximize Reyes’s value, and get some promising young prospects for him as the deadline approaches. It’s in Wilpon’s best interest to do everything in his power to make that happen.
He’s just more or less guaranteed that the Mets won’t be able to move Reyes before the deadline. The guy is performing well in his contract season, and could probably be quite attractive to a team that needs to rent a player for the stretch run. The Mets could have gotten a couple of players who would have helped form the core of the next version of the team’s roster that will be a serious contender. Fred Wilpon has now prevented that from happening.
It’s as if he doesn’t want the team to win.
he thinks he is the owner of the indians in the major legaue movies.