The Mets have tentatively reached a deal that would send three young pitchers and an outfielder to the Twins in exchange for Johan Santana. As a Nationals fan, I do not respect the Mets, their obnoxious fans or their lack of inspired play. They are perennial underachievers where good players go to fall short of the overall World Series goal. The 1990's and 2000's have been chock full of ridiculous signings, exorbitant amounts of money and failed aspirations. Players such as Piazza, Beltran, Wagner and Delgado have seen prime years wasted in blue pinstripes. Now add Santana to that list... at least I'll get to watch him demolish the Nationals three times a year.
If the Mets are able to negotiate a deal with Santana in order for him to waive his no-trade clause, it will drastically tip the scale of power in the National League. At least we can all say that the Mets are finally putting their money in the right place. Santana is the best pitcher in the game and with such an explosive offense behind him would be unstoppable. I don't think it's outlandish to say that, if healthy, he could win 25+ games with the Mets. They needed pitching and they now have it in spades.
The Nationals will be hard pressed to match that kind of firepower and during an off-season of big NL East moves, this is the biggest.
- The Hokie
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Another Excellent Player to the Black Hole of the Mets
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"As a Nationals fan, I do not respect the Mets, their obnoxious fans or their lack of inspired play. They are perennial underachievers where good players go to fall short of the overall World Series goal. The 1990's and 2000's have been chock full of ridiculous signings, exorbitant amounts of money and failed aspirations. Players such as Piazza, Beltran, Wagner and Delgado have seen prime years wasted in blue pinstripes."
1. You dont, 'respect the Mets.' I find it weird that someone can respect or disrespect a professional sports franchise...it seems to me they're all pretty respectable...being worth millions of dollars and all.. Their players busted their tails to be the one of the best 500 baseball players in the world…I respect that.
2. The Mets have lacked inspired play...While you are right their inspired play percentage dropped last year, I think it was mostly due to Pedro Martinez's ISP % plummeting after the death of his little friend. Look...the Mets want to win every game they play, everyone wants to win every game they play. You play baseball, you know that sometimes things just dont come together no matter how, "inspired," you are.
3. If the measure of achievement was a world series goal wouldn't every team but one underachieve every year? Not making the playoffs last season was underachieving, however it doesn’t mean their whole season was a waste. They had the biggest collapse in baseball history and only missed the playoffs by 1 game. That means the rest of the season they were dominant.
4. So let me get this straight...if a player plays their heart out, comes up big in tough situations, and even carries on their shoulders a team to the playoffs...it was a waste of their time? Was your entire playing career a waste because WL never won a state title? Was Ted Williams entire career a waste? According to this logic every player that has played for the cubs or redsox in the last 100 years should have never bothered. Do you expect no good players to ever come to the nationals? because it will be a 'waste?' How are these players supposed to see to the future to know whether or not to go to a team...at risk of 'wasting' a year of their career.
I think it makes perfectly good sense to not respect a sports team. Take the Flyers for example- they've already had 5 guys suspended for a total of about 55 games; they keep throwing blantant cheap shots and when one of their guys sucker punched another their president said he loved it.
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