Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

I really enjoy Mark Cuban’s blog. Today he wrote about the process of trying to buy the Rangers.  A solid read, and I thought you’d enjoy it including this excerpt.

(D)espite what people think, I don’t keep hundreds of millions of dollars in a checking account. I prefer that it earn money doing things for me.  It is not easy to get liquid to the point of $400mm dollars or more in just a few weeks.  And in those few short weeks, its not easy to go to the banks and get a loan for a baseball team. Lots of reasons.  Some I don’t like, but it’s not.  Second, I didn’t have enough time to do all the due diligence my folks needed to do.  You don’t read every contract and get people to run numbers and advise you on what all the implications of a bankruptcy auction are in a couple weeks. I was paying people to work round the clock. I was killing my General Counsel Robert Hart to the point of exhaustion. There wasn’t enough time.

I hereby declare myself Captain of the Mets.

I demand to be activated immediately (release Oliver Perez).

SOMEONE has to give a crap about this franchise, and since nobody else will do it I will.

Fred’s comment about Omar coming back infuriates me.  Maybe he should come back, but do we have to declare that on an August day when the team is playing .500 ball.  What if the team goes 0-40?  Free pass?  I’m p*ssed the sun came up today!

I can waste a roster spot just the same as Ollie.

If Jerry needs me to pitch in a 14-1 game I can throw 42 mph balls high and outside until the Diamonbacks get bored and swing at anything.   I can stand in left field in the 21st inning.   I can be the emergency catcher.  Fans might even root for a 40 year old fat guy with no skills making the minimum (I will donate my salary minus my mortgage payments to charity).

There’s no veteran to teach the young pups, and Wright and Reyes don’t know a thing about winning, so I’ll just play the role until Omar gets a Hernandez/LoDuca/O’Neill type in here to lead.

I can throw helmets and bats.  I can yell at umpires.  I can bait Jimmy Rollins into a fist fight.   Who cares if I get ejected?

I can say “Hey Pelf, how ’bout some fastballs this inning?”   I can say “Luis, next time a double play is hit to you try catching it.”

Maybe the other players will get mad at me.  GOOD!  SHOW SOME FIRE!

Darryl’s comments from last weekend have stuck in my head.  Nobody gives a $%@t if they make an out.  Oh well, we lost.  Yeah, we wasted the Atlanta series, we’ll just sweep Philly.

Right.

When a player calls my resume into question and I’ll say “yeah but I never spit a 7 game lead with 17 to go.”    Let them get angry.  I don’t need to be liked.

These are MEANINGLESS GAMES IN AUGUST.  Again.

This team doesn’t work.   Sorry, it just doesn’t.

Why is Ollie on this team?  Why is Castillo on the team?  Why are they going to let Cora’s contract trigger?  Why does the owner give the GM another free pass?  Why is this team playing .500 ball?

This team needs more guys like Santana – who basically says “OK you #%^%#s I will go out and throw 130 pitches today because the rest of you suck.”

I loved Dickey the other night – 35 year old guy with not much talent, but he WANTED A WIN the other night.  Did you see his quotes about using every trick in the book?  Called it guerilla warfare?  Yeah baby!

Me, Johan and RA can do this but we need some help.

Start me at SS tonight and bat me leadoff.  I can take two pitches and then charge the mound.  Let Philly know we’re angry.  I’ll take the ejection and I’ll fire a helmet at the catcher on my way out.

Shake it up Fred.  Shake it up Omar.

Trade Hubie and Fitzgerald for Carter.  Trade Terrell for Hojo.

Try SOMETHING.

This doesn’t work.

MEANINGLESS GAMES IN AUGUST, and I as Captain will not stand for it.

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This rant was inspired by this article on Mets Today about cutting dead weight.