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OT: MLB Thread - Part XVI: Come On. Do Something.

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It just a bad sign to the motivation of ownership. They'd rather save 4 mill than get better prospects. And they have some kind of thing about not trading with the Yankees

I couldn't careless if Bruce goes to the Yankees and rakes. Who cares?

This whole thing just sends a terrible message

To quote the great Don Lagreca, IT'S A JOKE!
 
sbjnyc said:
How does this answer my question? It's a question of money that the Mets and Yanks didn't want to pay but apparently it's only the Mets who are branded cheap when there's a disagreement. :shakehead
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Um...The Yankees are near the top or right at the edge of their spending limit. Same reason why they didn't take on any salary for Garcia.

Never thought I'd see the day where a Mets fan tried to brand the Yankees as cheap :laugh:
 
Hire Sather said:
It just a bad sign to the motivation of ownership. They'd rather save 4 mill than get better prospects. And they have some kind of thing about not trading with the Yankees

I couldn't careless if Bruce goes to the Yankees and rakes. Who cares?

This whole thing just sends a terrible message

To quote the great Don Lagreca, IT'S A JOKE!
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It seems that the Wilpons enjoy the Yankees losing. Trading Reed, Duda and Bruce directly to rival teams.
 
Geoff Gorden said:
Um...The Yankees are near the top or right at the edge of their spending limit. Same reason why they didn't take on any salary for Garcia.

Never thought I'd see the day where a Mets fan tried to brand the Yankees as cheap :laugh:
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It's one thing if the Mets didn't want to pay for any FAs. BU tthis is different - if you're negotiating the price of a house, who's the cheap one, the person who says no because they don't want to pay the extra $5k or the person who says no because they didn't want to lower their asking price by $5k?
 
sbjnyc said:
It's one thing if the Mets didn't want to pay for any FAs. BU tthis is different - if you're negotiating the price of a house, who's the cheap one, the person who says no because they don't want to pay the extra $5k or the person who says no because they didn't want to lower their asking price by $5k?
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I'd say it's more analogous to the realtor (Mets) taking a lesser offer from another customer (Indians) because they don't like how successful/popular the other customer (Yankees) are within their own community.
 
RangerBlues said:
The Mets are irrelevant.
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They were in the WS two years ago and the WC game last year. They're irrelevant this season, sure, but not longer term.

It also happens that a substantial portion of this forum roots for the team, so, yeah, they're always going to be relevant in this thread.

Thanks for the awesome comment though.
 
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Another Mets offficial: "When we were looking for players last year, the Yankees weren't exactly rushing to return our calls."
 
DrRecchi said:
I'd say it's more analogous to the realtor (Mets) taking a lesser offer from another customer (Indians) because they don't like how successful/popular the other customer (Yankees) are within their own community.
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You can't really look at those 2 deals at the same time except through hindsight.
 
sbjnyc said:
How does this answer my question? It's a question of money that the Mets and Yanks didn't want to pay but apparently it's only the Mets who are branded cheap when there's a disagreement. :shakehead
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No, when you get better prospects you shouldn't have to take on the whole contract too, it always works that way.

Also, the Yankees are near the very top of their budget (hence why the Twins ate all of Garcia's money), and its well over 200 million
 
Lundsanity30 said:
No, when you get better prospects you shouldn't have to take on the whole contract too, it always works that way.

Also, the Yankees are near the very top of their budget (hence why the Twins ate all of Garcia's money), and its well over 200 million
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Who says the prospects were better? Just because there were two doesn't mean they were better, individually or combined.
 
Lundsanity30 said:
No, when you get better prospects you shouldn't have to take on the whole contract too, it always works that way.

Also, the Yankees are near the very top of their budget (hence why the Twins ate all of Garcia's money), and its well over 200 million
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Do you even know who the Yankee prospects were?

Mets trying to manage their budget: Mets are cheap
Yankees trying to manage their budget: yanks are smart
 
nyr2k2 said:
Who says the prospects were better? Just because there were two doesn't mean they were better, individually or combined.
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from reports the Yankees had a better offer, obviously we wont know for some years as they are prospects, but Yankees apparently offered "players who other teams asked about around the trade deadline"

Remember, the Yankees are going to have to make some 40 man moves or lose ALOT of players in the rule 5 for nothing.
 
sbjnyc said:
Do you even know who the Yankee prospects were?

Mets trying to manage their budget: Mets are cheap
Yankees trying to manage their budget: yanks are smart
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I never said the Mets are cheap..

I said the rule is if you give up better prospects, the returning team eats money, has always been that way.
 
Lundsanity30 said:
from reports the Yankees had a better offer, obviously we wont know for some years as they are prospects, but Yankees apparently offered "players who other teams asked about around the trade deadline"

Remember, the Yankees are going to have to make some 40 man moves or lose ALOT of players in the rule 5 for nothing.
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Players who get asked about? What does that even mean? Everyone gets asked about. Mets asked about that 30th round pick they got for Bruce.
 
The Yankees aren't going to lose "a lot" of players in the rule five draft very few players get selected and remain the whole year.

In reality the Mets could have got one useless prospect from CLE or two useless prospects from NYY might as well send him to the team that will pay more money.
 
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