Baseball Winter Meetings and Television
December 6th 2006 17:18
Good Morning All,
Reading all about the baseball meetings in Orlando. I was just there this weekend and it was packed. I wrote about other reasons why and I forgot all about that as well. Let’s face it, I just picked a real lousy time to go. Anyway, back to baseball. Yesterday I was all frustrated that the Mets were spinning their wheels as usual. Things have been better since Omar Minaya has become GM but I still believe that the Wilpons think like a small market team while playing in a big market city. Afraid to make the big signing and going after the premiere free agents. I think they’ll point to the Beltran signing for the next ten years as showing “proof” that they spend. I am by no means saying to go to Yankee levels because I find that obscene but act like a big market team. I know some people liked the Alou signing and I think its okay to a certain extent but I hate the idea of getting older brittle players. I want the team to get younger and more athletic. I keep saying that Beltran is going to need oxygen covering the ground between Alou and Green.
Today though I read that they have had talks with Oakland about Harden, The problem being a Met fan is I am always used to the tease. Every winter I hear the Mets linked to some big name and then it never happens. Then the Mets will say, “We tried.” This year, don’t try…Do! Make one of these things happen. Get the Ace pitcher in their prime. If the price is Milledge and Heilman for Harden, just do it! Harden is a good hard thrower and the Mets have too many soft tossers. So please, make it happen for once.
I am a Met fan, obviously, but I root for the Red Sox secondary, primarily because I hate the Yankees with a passion. It is getting harder and harder to say that the Red Sox are not like the Yankees when I see the spree they are going on now. Lugo, the underachieving JD Drew and the 51 million bid for a pitcher from Japan who has never pitched in the big leagues. Outrageous, they better finish ahead of the Yanks this year.
On to television. I know you guys are probably sick of my Wednesday rants but as Wednesdays roll around, I get accustomed to watching LOST. I still can’t believe that it won’t be on until February. To make matters worse, I hear rumblings that they may cancel DAYBREAK as well, the show ABC put on during LOST’s hiatus. I was enjoying the show and admit that it can be repetitive but I still found the show engrossing and liked the twists and turns. I can’t win with television and I fear that they may cancel it before resolution is made on the show. To make things even worse, I also read in TVTATTLE that a few episodes of LOST are being filmed without Matthew Fox. I have already written about my feelings about that in another blog so I’ll spare you now but once again, if Dr. Jack goes, then I am gone too.
Until later,
Jonathan
Reading all about the baseball meetings in Orlando. I was just there this weekend and it was packed. I wrote about other reasons why and I forgot all about that as well. Let’s face it, I just picked a real lousy time to go. Anyway, back to baseball. Yesterday I was all frustrated that the Mets were spinning their wheels as usual. Things have been better since Omar Minaya has become GM but I still believe that the Wilpons think like a small market team while playing in a big market city. Afraid to make the big signing and going after the premiere free agents. I think they’ll point to the Beltran signing for the next ten years as showing “proof” that they spend. I am by no means saying to go to Yankee levels because I find that obscene but act like a big market team. I know some people liked the Alou signing and I think its okay to a certain extent but I hate the idea of getting older brittle players. I want the team to get younger and more athletic. I keep saying that Beltran is going to need oxygen covering the ground between Alou and Green.
I am a Met fan, obviously, but I root for the Red Sox secondary, primarily because I hate the Yankees with a passion. It is getting harder and harder to say that the Red Sox are not like the Yankees when I see the spree they are going on now. Lugo, the underachieving JD Drew and the 51 million bid for a pitcher from Japan who has never pitched in the big leagues. Outrageous, they better finish ahead of the Yanks this year.
On to television. I know you guys are probably sick of my Wednesday rants but as Wednesdays roll around, I get accustomed to watching LOST. I still can’t believe that it won’t be on until February. To make matters worse, I hear rumblings that they may cancel DAYBREAK as well, the show ABC put on during LOST’s hiatus. I was enjoying the show and admit that it can be repetitive but I still found the show engrossing and liked the twists and turns. I can’t win with television and I fear that they may cancel it before resolution is made on the show. To make things even worse, I also read in TVTATTLE that a few episodes of LOST are being filmed without Matthew Fox. I have already written about my feelings about that in another blog so I’ll spare you now but once again, if Dr. Jack goes, then I am gone too.
Until later,
Jonathan
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