Rumors are suggesting the Mets may not get Fuentes or FROD, so the pen won't be as inproved as yall had hoped.
The media and political "outrage" over the Citi Field naming is nothing but hot air. Naming rights are just a form of advertising, nothing else, and unless the bailout of Citigroup (or AIG, or GM, or whoever) says that the company isn't allowed to advertise (which is of course too moronic to contemplate), there is nothing in naming rights that is any different from television commercials or print advertisements. The advertising budget for Citigroup is on the order of $1 billion annually, so the $20 million naming rights is a drop in the bucket. The inability (or unwillingness) of some members of the City Council, certain columnists, and TV sports talking heads to recognize this would be shocking, if it wasn't so predictable.
I guess you have spent your entire life in academia, and have NO CLUE to real life and political ramifications. Let me educate you. In other words, YOU HAVE YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND. The Mets keeping CITIFIELD as their home field name are inviting themselves to scorn. CITIBANK just took 35 BILLION DOLLARS of TAXPAYERS MONEY. IF they keep CITIFIELD as their home field name, they (the METS), will be continued to be the point of political satire and laughter.
No, they wont. Relinquishing their advertising role is probably the dumbest thing they could do. They need to get their name out there in a good way, and this is a good way.
Wow, it must be a chore going through life with such a pitiful lack of self-esteem that you feel the need to insult someone with self-aggrandizing "advice" if they say something you don't agree with. And if I was going to go to someone on this board to have them explain "real life" to me, believe me, your many delusional posts would put you near the bottom of the list.
JoeJet have you ever SEEN a doctor ABOUT THAT uncontrollable need to SHOUT random words IN THE MIDDLE of your sentences? Or about being an asshole? Can they cure that yet?
joejet is more than an asshole. he is a lonely old man that seeks confidence by degrading others via the internet. i wish i knew him in real life so i could listen to the shit he spews in person and then have the pleasure of laughing in his face then pushing him down a flight of very tall stairs.
according to metsblog, the mets rejected the rockies offer of feliciano and heilman for huston street. i would make that deal and still try to sign K-Rod as the closer and let Street be the 8th inning guy. Hopefully Minaya can rope them into switching Feliciano for a mid level prospect.
I'd rather give up Feliciano than that ever-cited mystery mid-level prospect. He's a LOOGY on a team with two LOOGYs. Jesus Christ, Minaya, the thing about those smart low-risk pickups like Feliciano and Marlon Anderson is that you have to know when to cut the fucking cord on them. I get the feeling that he gets way too sentimental over "his guys."
Street dosen't want to be the 8th inning guy, which is why he asked to leave Oakland. He wants to close.
And the gap between Street and Rodriguez is nominal enough that avoiding the Heilman/Feliciano deal to sign K-Rod for the exact length and value of the Citi naming rights contract, or whatever they'll wind up doing, is astoundingly dumb.
that offer has to be a joke. 2 pitchers that WHIP more then they weigh for street and the mets say no thanks? i don't think much of omar and even i find this pretty hard to believe.
mets offer oliver perez arbitration http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/ar...t_id=3697639&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym
FROD is over rated. I don't see why everyone is creaming their pants over him. He had a good year, but he had an ideal situation.
