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Any smart Mets fan will stay home until the team shows signs of competing for a pennant. I would expect that form this point onward, season ticket sales for 2016 will sag. It's fine, I liked buying Travelzoo discounted seats as late as Sept 23 this year.

The Wilpons had a chance to average 40,000 fans per game for an entire season. Now they will be lucky to average 30,000
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Beast, as a fellow Met fan you have to know that we can't be that smart to deal with the crap product that we had to deal with most of the last 40 years (23 losing seasons and 17 winning seasons but it feels worse with only six playoff appearances and one world series). I think the attendance will be closer to averaging 35,000 as long as they are in the playoff hunt, even if they need to run promos to get people in.
 
Signing deAza means we are shopping in the thrift store again this year
Why not go for broke when you have these amazing young arms?
I believe in the old adage - you have to spend money to make money
As much as I dislike Mark Cuban, I wish he would buy the Mets
Things would certainly get interesting in Flushing
 
Signing deAza means we are shopping in the thrift store again this year
Why not go for broke when you have these amazing young arms?
I believe in the old adage - you have to spend money to make money
As much as I dislike Mark Cuban, I wish he would buy the Mets
Things would certainly get interesting in Flushing
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What every Mets fan knows is that the Wilpons have 3 full seasons to build a great lineup around the best starting pitching staff in MLB that is costing them virtually nothing. Instead i think their strategy will be to be in the race in july and then pick up a bat that is a free,agent (a la Cespedes). It's disappointing and frustrating and blowing a great opportunity to top the NL for 3 seasons
 
Guess he didn't put drafting Nimmo (talk as a 4th OFer), Cecchini (talk of utility player) and Smith (I hold out hope he grows 4 inches and gains 30 pds) on the resume. I could have drafted Conforto.
 
Guess he didn't put drafting Nimmo (talk as a 4th OFer), Cecchini (talk of utility player) and Smith (I hold out hope he grows 4 inches and gains 30 pds) on the resume. I could have drafted Conforto.
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Hahaha. I've been saying forever that the Alderson regime's drafting has been below par at best. Maybe its a good thing that Depodesta is leaving. The Mets really need to ramp up the scouting department now that Omar's studs are all grown up. Still funny that Omar was run out of town because of a poor minor league system. Well I guess there were also a few bad FA contracts in there as well. Did I see right that Oliver Perez is still pitching. How is that possible.
 
What pisses me off the most about the Mets is that Bobby Bonilla will continue to get $1.19 million per year through 2035, when he will be around 72 years old
 
What pisses me off the most about the Mets is that Bobby Bonilla will continue to get $1.19 million per year through 2035, when he will be around 72 years old
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has to be the worst contract ever
 
While I loved D Straw, I think Piazza was the greatest hitting Met of all time. What say you?
 
My 2 favorite players of all time, childhood heroes both get into the HOF on the same day. Very well deserved on both ends. But man I'm old now.
 
What pisses me off the most about the Mets is that Bobby Bonilla will continue to get $1.19 million per year through 2035, when he will be around 72 years old
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has to be the worst contract ever
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I think for him it was the best. I think the Mets paid the going rate for him, and he very smartly took some of the contract, and had it put into a high interest annuity that began paying him well after retirement. So many athletes burn through their huge contracts and are poor by age 40. Bonilla performed miserably for the Mets, but was an all star before. Dave Parker syndrome maybe?
 
Got to WS with Hampton but supposedly Mariners and Mets agreed on Griffey for Dotel, Cedeno and Benitez in off season of 1999. Griffey vetoed trade. Imagine Griffey and Piazza back to back in lineup
 
Up until 2000, Griffey was simply one of the best players ever to play. It looked like the career HR record would easily be his. Unbelievably the next 11 seasons he only hit something like 210 home runs - very nice, but not HOF numbers. Essentially he had two careers - one incredible one, and one very good one. Injuries played a big part, else he could have completely rewritten the record books.

Piazza is one of the best hitting catchers of all time. To me, not in the upper echelons of HOF catchers because he threw poorly and was no more than avg behind the plate. Lots of speculation about PEDs, but they could never come up with anything substantive to pin on him, so he deserves in. Good guy, great all time Met.
 
For some reason I never was enthralled with Piazza. I never really loved the 2000 team either. Outside of the steroids he deserves it as much as anyone but feel really bad that he follows Seaver. Strawberry and Gooden had so much talent go to waste. Wish it was one of them or Noah Syndegaard if we can keep him signed.
 
While I loved D Straw, I think Piazza was the greatest hitting Met of all time. What say you?
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I agree. Piazza is the greatest non pitcher in Met history. Congrats to Mike for making the HOF. Very well deserved.

I still wish he would've beat the heck out of Clemens back in the 2000 WS. It is fitting that Piazza gets elected to the Hall the same year that the cheating Clemens doesn't make it. Maybe Mike will invite Roger to his induction ceremony.
 
While I loved D Straw, I think Piazza was the greatest hitting Met of all time. What say you?
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I agree. Piazza is the greatest non pitcher in Met history. Congrats to Mike for making the HOF. Very well deserved.

I still wish he would've beat the heck out of Clemens back in the 2000 WS. It is fitting that Piazza gets elected to the Hall the same year that the cheating Clemens doesn't make it. Maybe Mike will invite Roger to his induction ceremony.
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Expecting Piazza to make the Hall I tried to make reservations in July 2015. Unfortunately, there was no available hotels in Cooperstown for July 2016. One of my sons and I will travel from Herkimer, N.Y. about 40 minutes away. Fortunately, we will be able to stay in Saratoga for the races after Mike's induction. Tough life retirement.
 
Meanwhile Span goes to SF for 3 yrs 31 million. We should have done that deal

What a waste of an offseason
 
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