I’m a little mad at the Back To Unnamed Donuts Chain this morning.
I thought we were friends…but no ad buy yet, which I can understand…but A Certain More Popular Mets Blog has Unnamed Ads now and even had a sponsored post.
So that’s annoying enough…but then there was my purchase of this tasty Mocha Iced Coffee. $2.99!
$2.99? Out here nearby Mets Police HQ?
Listen Donuts Chain, the last thing you want to do is get into a price war with McBurgerchain’s Iced Coffee, which is also yummy and a good thirty cents cheaper. Don’t forget, it’s not just the coffee it’s the two donuts I buy with it.
Anyways, if you’re a newbie to Mets Police, every Saturday morning I head out to Unnamed Donuts Chain and write about it. No reason.
About those Mets – nice win last night. Not much else to say about it. Gee is heading for the All Star Team. Maybe.
I wonder about this Tejada fellow. He seems quite talented, and has handled his recent major league stint fairly well, although it’s a small sample.
It seems as if he could play SS at the major leagues someday.
And if he can play SS at the major league level someday….what is Sandy thinking?
In many ways this “sort of in it” is a bad scenario for Sandy. It’s easy to stay in a race, somewhat easy to throw in a towel if you’re the 24-40 Astros…harder when newspapers print the Wild Card standings and the number in the GB column doesn’t scare a lot of your fans.
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Finally a cautionary tale. Sometimes events conspire and a person gets a day in the sun. Don’t rock star it.
I was in one of those places for the first time in months the other day. Wanted to try the Frozen Hot Chocolate because frozen hot chocolate is freaking awesome.
not theirs. it sucked. was basically like chocolate milk. eh.
Tejada is a nice player and he might even be able to add some punch to his game in the future, but he will never be able to produce at the level Reyes did in 2006, 2007 and 2008. If Tejada produced as well as Reyes did in 2010 after an entire year off that would be a nice thing.
Alderson has to be smarter than that.
Here’s the thing, Patrick. It’s not about “replacing” Reyes, which can’t be done. It’s about making the team better. Having a monster at leadoff is nice and all, but Reyes’ best attributes are not the Mets’ current problems, and someone merely less than Reyes (i.e., everyone else in MLB) isn’t necessarily a weakness. If you get some help on the mound, for instance, and Tejada (or whoever) gives you merely average production, it can still be a net gain. Reyes having a huge night but losing anyway because you can’t hold a lead doesn’t help anybody. This isn’t the NBA where you can have one guy and “everyone else.” If the key to winning was Jose Reyes, we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place because all would already be unicorns and rainbows in Metsland.
The reason Reyes’ best attributes are not the Mets’ current problems is because the Mets have Jose Reyes.
No, what you’re saying assumes that the production automatically ceases without him, which isn’t true if you pour over the stats. Replace him with someone who’s anything but a complete bust, and this team still has a pretty good offense.
That is a completely different issue than the question of “Is the offense better–or at least has a chance to be better–with him than without him?” Of course it is/does. That’s not even up for debate. However, the more important question is just how much of a difference that increased offensive production in that one spot in the order really makes in the overall framework of the team and winning or losing. Again, Jose’s having ABSOLUTE MONSTER year so far. It’s almost impossible for his production to get any better than it is right now. Yet we’re still sitting 2 games under .500 after 2 1/2 months and about 2-3 times a week his great night goes for naught. What’s the point of having him if you’re just wasting him anyway?