A New Year, A New Ronny Applesauce: Mets Close To Signing Another Ronny From Pittsburgh, Also Bringing Back Scott Hairston, More CRG Reaction

Those dogs have been demonized to such a ridiculous extent. There are about 30 dog attack fatalities per year in America. There are over 300,000,000 of us. You are more likely to get struck by lightning 17 times in a single year than you are to die from a dog :P

Bummer, 70 wins and dropping

“The consulting group was hired by the Mets only to “review and analyze financial statements, projections, budgets and forecasts.”

The consultants were hired after a great deal of outside analysis, here and then in the MSM, of the Mets financial situation. The immediate conclusion was that the Mets have been unable to sell minority shares, bankruptcy may be coming, and now that the possibility has been raised, the minority shares will surely not sell.

Other possibility: the Mets had the deals lined up, but the questions raised about the team caused the potential buyers to get cold feet. The Mets are not a publicly traded company subject to SEC disclosure, the Wilpons as majority partner would have all the information and all the power, and the buyers might have been worried that the Wilpons might have been desperate enough to keep the team to cut some corners.

The alternative explanation is that CRG was hired because would-be investors demanded it, to to provide assurances about the Mets finances, plans, and prospects, and a fallback plan of sale if things don’t work out. Thus, hiring CRG is part of getting the investment, not a reaction to not getting it. The third party oversight of CRG would report directly to the minority partners as well as the Wilpons.

This corresponds with the idea that Alderson is with the Mets to protect the interests of MLB as much as the Mets — keep them from imploding, get the MLB loan back, etc. He may be reporting directly to Selig as well as to the Wilpons.

In summary, rather than new ownership, we may be in a period of Wilpons plus babysitters running the team. Hopefully, it will work out as well as it did for the Yankees when Steinbrenner was put on ice for a few years and the baseball people could build the team up.

This is just more of the same old same. We sign over the hill guys and average/below guys for the bench and then act shocked when we win only 70 games. I know that the team has money problems, but, they make money when the team wins. The poor excuse for a team that we now have is NOT going to win anything. We may find ourselves in a battle with the Pirates for the team in the NL with the worst record.

I only check up on the Mets to see when they will finally go up for sale. None of our transactions in the last year or so are to make the team better. They just dump salary and sign AAAA players for us to watch. We do need them though cause our starters are always fighting for a spot on the DL. Its the same old story every year since they moved to this new stadium. David Wright should be traded for one top flight prospect, his production had been declining every year. I dont see any reason for him returning to form. Jason Bay? He is the worst starting outfielder in the whole league. He is a .250 hitter with no power and below average defense. I can explain why. Maybe him and Wright should trade their estrogen supplements for some Roids. i will end this with a positive remark now. We have a fine group of arms in the minor leagues now. I hope a few of them pan out.

It doesn’t really matter who plays on the bench of a playoff non-contender – right?