What You Tell Yourself

I’m as die hard a Met fan as they come, and I’m as upset about this news as anyone, but the eulogy-esque aspects of some of this morning’s reactions are a bit extreme. There are a heck of a lot more things worth wondering what you can tell your kid about, like why that person sleeping on the street corner doesn’t have anywhere to live or anything to eat. It’s a lot easier to get worked up about baseball, but let’s not go overboard here.

Why not extend Wright now.

Pick up the 2013 option now and offer him a 4 yr/ $60-65 extention to 2017.

Squashes all the trade Wright press, ensures he’ll be here for the next 5 years (5 Prime of his Life years), build the team up with Davis and the pitching coming up, also takes the sting a bit off from Reyes leaving.

I became a Mets fan in Texas because of Jose Reyes…what do I do now? I’ve invested so much time and energy into learning all there is to learn about the Mets because of Reyes. Now he’s gone. Do I go with him?

Ok, being a NY Giants fan in addition to my Met fandom, I am taking this approach. The Giants lost Steve Smith this past off-season to an in division team. I was upset (not nearly as upset as losing Reyes because Reyes means more to the Mets than Smith ever did to the Giants, but that is not the point of my analogy), but have gotten over it with the performace of Cruz. He has surpassed Smith as a playmaker in my opinion and much more likeable. So, taking that idea and running with it, my hope is that the Mets can find their version of Cruz. Maybe it is one of the young pitchers coming up through the minors or maybe it is a someone on their radar that they bring into this organization, who knows? Maybe it is Tejada himself that will make awesome defensive plays and increase his offensive with another year under his belt. Maybe it is someone the have targeted in the Rule V draft. Alderson is not a fool and knows he will need to do something to improve the morale of this fan base. Cause let’s face it, we are talking a serious low morale right now.

I hate losing Reyes but I am keeping myself sane right now with the thought that this could be openning the door for someone else to come in here and win our hearts like he did.

At least we got this Steve Henderson kid, who can hit .300, I think. Pat Zachry has a good arm, if he can keep his temper under control. Doug Flynn can pick it in the field, and I have pretty high hopes for Dan Norman, too.

I look at it this way: I’ve pretty much known he’d be gone, so I had 4-5-6 months to prepare for it. The Mets are years from contention, and unless signing Jose Reyes meant getting six Jose Reyes’, that wasn’t going to change.

I got over Straw with the Dodgers, I’ll get over this too.

Jose is gone.

How happy are we going to be if Jose misses half the season with a hammy injury? I mean not happy that the dude is hurt, but happy that he will not be sitting on our DL. Also, when he faces our own RA Dickey, how much are we gonna laugh when he looks foolish swinging at a knuckeler? I really do not know where all of this optimism is coming from, but I am just going to roll with it for now. I am sure the pessimism is lurking somewhere in the shadows.

and losing Rusty Staub broke mine when I was 12.

So to all the 12-year olds out there for whom Jose is all that: this really sucks for you, we know, we’re sorry.

And if it’s any consolation, you don’t actually ever get over it.

OK, that’s not consolation at all. But it is only just baseball.

Been a Mets fan from London since around the Reyes and Wright era began (bandwagon ftw)

Losing Reyes comes a few months after the team I follow in England, West Ham, sold their best player to their biggest rival that play down the road for a measly 5 mill. This was after he was named player of the year even though we were relegated… so we’re no longer even in the EPL. 5 mill for an England starter grrrr.

And now this, sigh.

“The biggest winners here — besides Reyes, obviously — are the New York Mets, who get to say they made a good-faith effort to retain their star but weren’t willing to go to the lengths to which the Marlins went to sign him. There is no rational argument that the Mets should have invested for that length of time in a player as risky as Reyes is — they should be thinking long-term, and Reyes’ risk increases exponentially as time goes on. Shortstop is a tough hole for them to fill in the short term, but given their other issues, they are better off with Reyes in South Florida.”

I agree with this completely. It’s the only thing i’ve read that jives with my feelings and thoughts perfectly.