11-30-2005, 08:05 PM
It was a joke, calm down. We all know Mariano is the second coming of christ.
From MetsBlog.com....
The talking point around baseball is that the Mets have turned into the Yankees, and are spending money like water. A local talk show described the team's payroll as "sky-rocketing," from where it stood last season…
From reading websites and newspapers, and listening to talk radio, the conveyed message is that the Mets have written countless checks to all sorts of players this off-season and are starring down the barrel of a $200 million payroll, which, by the way, would still be less than the Yankees finished with last season...
In fact, if the Yankees do not make a single acquisition this off-season, their payroll will begin around $160 million...
On the other hand, last season the Mets final payroll checked in at roughly $116 million...
Going into this season, they are committed to roughly $80 million between Steve Trachsel, Alay Soler, Kaz Matsui, Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine, Cliff Floyd, Kris Benson and Carlos Beltran, assuming each player attains their additional benefit packages…
To that $80 million, they will likely add roughly $13 million in additional contracts to players on their 40-man roster and minor league contracts.
The additions of Carlos Delgado and Billy Wagner tack on an estimated $26 million, bringing the team's estimated opening day payroll for 2006 to $125 million, roughly $9 million more than they paid out last season…
With the addition of a free-agent catcher, such as Ramon Hernandez, that total jumps to $132 million…
How exactly does that define a skyrocketing payroll? Or a team spending money like water?…
I guarentee there are other teams besides the Mets and Yankees that will end up adding 15 percent in salary this off-season…
And even if the Mets add more, or add Manny Ramirez, this doesn't bother me. The Mets play in New York, and should put together the most entertaining product they can find. This is the entertainment business, not the sports business. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves…
My main concern is the rhetoric. If the talk show hosts and the writers are simply trying to get a rise out of the Mets fan by mocking their team while comparing it to the Yankees, who most Mets fans despise, so be it, but know you're facts are off-base in doing so…
From MetsBlog.com....
The talking point around baseball is that the Mets have turned into the Yankees, and are spending money like water. A local talk show described the team's payroll as "sky-rocketing," from where it stood last season…
From reading websites and newspapers, and listening to talk radio, the conveyed message is that the Mets have written countless checks to all sorts of players this off-season and are starring down the barrel of a $200 million payroll, which, by the way, would still be less than the Yankees finished with last season...
In fact, if the Yankees do not make a single acquisition this off-season, their payroll will begin around $160 million...
On the other hand, last season the Mets final payroll checked in at roughly $116 million...
Going into this season, they are committed to roughly $80 million between Steve Trachsel, Alay Soler, Kaz Matsui, Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine, Cliff Floyd, Kris Benson and Carlos Beltran, assuming each player attains their additional benefit packages…
To that $80 million, they will likely add roughly $13 million in additional contracts to players on their 40-man roster and minor league contracts.
The additions of Carlos Delgado and Billy Wagner tack on an estimated $26 million, bringing the team's estimated opening day payroll for 2006 to $125 million, roughly $9 million more than they paid out last season…
With the addition of a free-agent catcher, such as Ramon Hernandez, that total jumps to $132 million…
How exactly does that define a skyrocketing payroll? Or a team spending money like water?…
I guarentee there are other teams besides the Mets and Yankees that will end up adding 15 percent in salary this off-season…
And even if the Mets add more, or add Manny Ramirez, this doesn't bother me. The Mets play in New York, and should put together the most entertaining product they can find. This is the entertainment business, not the sports business. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves…
My main concern is the rhetoric. If the talk show hosts and the writers are simply trying to get a rise out of the Mets fan by mocking their team while comparing it to the Yankees, who most Mets fans despise, so be it, but know you're facts are off-base in doing so…
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