Baseball Winter Meetings
December 7th 2006 16:22
Happy Thursday everybody,
I know you are getting sick of my rants about baseball, and I am too but I promise that I am almost done since the baseball winter meetings end today. I said yesterday that I have read other blogs and message boards of people that agree with me and did even more last night. I am a big Met fan but I always find them trying to do things on the cheap. It hasn’t been said but it seems like Wilpon has set up a limit on what Minaya can spend. This reminds me of 2000 after the Mets lost the series, there was all this talk that they would sign Arod to get to the next level. Well, that was all for show as they never intended to spend the money. I hope I am wrong now but after missing the Series last year, I thought for sure that they would go out and spend what was needed to get to the next level but I am getting the same feeling that this is all theatrics intended to satisfy the fans and say “We tried but…” At a time when the rest of the division is strengthening themselves, it seems like the Mets will stand pat. Please prove me wrong and I will gladly eat crow and retract everything but unfortunately, I think I won’t have to make that statement.
On to Football. I both love and hate Thursday night games. I like that games are spread out and I have more nights to watch. I would even like to see a game a night starting on Thursday and going through Monday to give me football all weekend. However, as I have said before, I am in a pool of 50 something people where it is difficult to win the week, much less the overall season standings. I am currently in 12th place and I need every game to try to move up. The best research comes out on Fridays and if I have to get my picks in on Thursdays, I am flying blind with my selections. I like football but I am not one of those guys that can tell you every stat for every guy on every team. (I am in baseball though, much to my wife’s chagrin) Nor am I the guy who can tell you where every player went to college like some of my friends, so I need the extra time to research the games. Still I had my best week last week when I just randomly guessed everything, so who knows?
Later,
Jonathan
I know you are getting sick of my rants about baseball, and I am too but I promise that I am almost done since the baseball winter meetings end today. I said yesterday that I have read other blogs and message boards of people that agree with me and did even more last night. I am a big Met fan but I always find them trying to do things on the cheap. It hasn’t been said but it seems like Wilpon has set up a limit on what Minaya can spend. This reminds me of 2000 after the Mets lost the series, there was all this talk that they would sign Arod to get to the next level. Well, that was all for show as they never intended to spend the money. I hope I am wrong now but after missing the Series last year, I thought for sure that they would go out and spend what was needed to get to the next level but I am getting the same feeling that this is all theatrics intended to satisfy the fans and say “We tried but…” At a time when the rest of the division is strengthening themselves, it seems like the Mets will stand pat. Please prove me wrong and I will gladly eat crow and retract everything but unfortunately, I think I won’t have to make that statement.
Jonathan
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