Comments on: THE SKILL SETS ARE NOT EATING GOVERMENT CHEESE, AT LEAST NOT YET http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/2009/03/09/the-skill-sets-are-not-eating-goverment-cheese-at-least-not-yet/ A daily account of the trials and tribulations of the New York Mets. Contact me at sinymets@aol.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David in Manhattan http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/2009/03/09/the-skill-sets-are-not-eating-goverment-cheese-at-least-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-139533 David in Manhattan Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:38:06 +0000 http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=1390#comment-139533 Steve, great link to the NBA article at ESPN. Scary but thoughtful. Ravi, it is true that Manny does not fit some of Omar's probable goals... get younger, get faster, healthier, less expensive, try to develop the players in the Club's minor league system... And the Holliday-Beltran-FMart outfield might be on his mind...sounds pretty good to me too. But he and Manny have been crab-walking for years, measuriing each other, making little feints, they are both Dominican New Yorkers, and I really did think that this year it was going to happen...and the Mets would have become immediate favorites to win the NL East and go deep in the play-offs. I blame Bernie Madoff. When the owner loses his pile, and the economy is STILL in freefall, it must suck away away the cockiness that it takes to toss around another $60 million for three years, even to get Manny Ramirez. Our team scored as many runs as anyone last year, and our pitching will be much improved in 2009...let's get this thing started!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('139533','David in Manhattan'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('139533','David in Manhattan','Steve, great link to the NBA article at ESPN. Scary but thoughtful.\r\n\r\nRavi, it is true that Manny does not fit some of Omar\'s probable goals... get younger, get faster, healthier, less expensive, try to develop the players in the Club\'s minor league system...\r\n\r\nAnd the Holliday-Beltran-FMart outfield might be on his mind...sounds pretty good to me too.\r\n\r\nBut he and Manny have been crab-walking for years, measuriing each other, making little feints, they are both Dominican New Yorkers, and I really did think that this year it was going to happen...and the Mets would have become immediate favorites to win the NL East and go deep in the play-offs.\r\n\r\nI blame Bernie Madoff. When the owner loses his pile, and the economy is STILL in freefall, it must suck away away the cockiness that it takes to toss around another $60 million for three years, even to get Manny Ramirez.\r\n\r\nOur team scored as many runs as anyone last year, and our pitching will be much improved in 2009...let\'s get this thing started!!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Steve, great link to the NBA article at ESPN. Scary but thoughtful.

Ravi, it is true that Manny does not fit some of Omar’s probable goals… get younger, get faster, healthier, less expensive, try to develop the players in the Club’s minor league system…

And the Holliday-Beltran-FMart outfield might be on his mind…sounds pretty good to me too.

But he and Manny have been crab-walking for years, measuriing each other, making little feints, they are both Dominican New Yorkers, and I really did think that this year it was going to happen…and the Mets would have become immediate favorites to win the NL East and go deep in the play-offs.

I blame Bernie Madoff. When the owner loses his pile, and the economy is STILL in freefall, it must suck away away the cockiness that it takes to toss around another $60 million for three years, even to get Manny Ramirez.

Our team scored as many runs as anyone last year, and our pitching will be much improved in 2009…let’s get this thing started!!

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]]> By: Bob B http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/2009/03/09/the-skill-sets-are-not-eating-goverment-cheese-at-least-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-139402 Bob B Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:43:30 +0000 http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=1390#comment-139402 By the way...best use of RDD lyrics I've seen in a long time.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('139402','Bob B'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('139402','Bob B','By the way...best use of RDD lyrics I\'ve seen in a long time.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> By the way…best use of RDD lyrics I’ve seen in a long time.
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]]> By: Ravi http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/2009/03/09/the-skill-sets-are-not-eating-goverment-cheese-at-least-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-139392 Ravi Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:04:28 +0000 http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=1390#comment-139392 Meh on Manny...Obviously he would have been a nice fit on this team, but Omar has worked on getting younger, and Manny kinda goes against the grain on that one. If you ask me, I think part of the anti-Manny thinking was that bringing in Manny in '09 precludes the team from going after Matt Holliday after the season, considering the dollars involved, and the lack of positions, especially when you factor in young prospects like FMart...I can see their 2010 outfield being Holliday, Beltran, FMart from left to right. I think you are overstating the money situation. We as fans have no idea whether the cap the team put on the payroll was to in fact keep the salary under the lux. tax, as they have done over the past few years, or because of Madoff. Further more, I don't understand why people can't accept the notion that the reason the Mets did not pursue Manny was simply a baseball decision?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('139392','Ravi'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('139392','Ravi','Meh on Manny...Obviously he would have been a nice fit on this team, but Omar has worked on getting younger, and Manny kinda goes against the grain on that one. If you ask me, I think part of the anti-Manny thinking was that bringing in Manny in \'09 precludes the team from going after Matt Holliday after the season, considering the dollars involved, and the lack of positions, especially when you factor in young prospects like FMart...I can see their 2010 outfield being Holliday, Beltran, FMart from left to right.\r\n\r\nI think you are overstating the money situation. We as fans have no idea whether the cap the team put on the payroll was to in fact keep the salary under the lux. tax, as they have done over the past few years, or because of Madoff.\r\n\r\nFurther more, I don\'t understand why people can\'t accept the notion that the reason the Mets did not pursue Manny was simply a baseball decision?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Meh on Manny…Obviously he would have been a nice fit on this team, but Omar has worked on getting younger, and Manny kinda goes against the grain on that one. If you ask me, I think part of the anti-Manny thinking was that bringing in Manny in ’09 precludes the team from going after Matt Holliday after the season, considering the dollars involved, and the lack of positions, especially when you factor in young prospects like FMart…I can see their 2010 outfield being Holliday, Beltran, FMart from left to right.

I think you are overstating the money situation. We as fans have no idea whether the cap the team put on the payroll was to in fact keep the salary under the lux. tax, as they have done over the past few years, or because of Madoff.

Further more, I don’t understand why people can’t accept the notion that the reason the Mets did not pursue Manny was simply a baseball decision?

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