"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
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I still believe that Reyes would of signed for 5/75 had the Mets offered him a deal coming of multiple injury filled years.
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
If the Mets had offered him that back then and he said no, then I would of been more on the Mets side when he left, but I think that coming off back to back years with various injuries he would of taken such a deal and not risked missing more time in 2011, but the Mets took a chance and failed to signed him.
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"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
no they wouldn't have.
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
I'm really not trying to sound like a hater, but why would anyone give the Mets a sweet discount? I can't think of too many discounts in terms of baseball contracts, but in pro sports in general, discounts are given by players to free up the team to invest in other players to improve the team's chances of winning. Why would a player give a team a discount just to leave more money in the owner's pockets?
Never assume the market will be less.
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."
Hmmmm would you rather have Wright for 6/90 or for 7/125? Would you rather have Reyes for 5/75 or 6/106? To me that's a sweet discount and buying low effectively. They did that with Niese even though the situation is different being a 1st gen contract compared to a 2nd gen contract, but the idea is the same.
I wouldn't care which scenario they signed them for, because its not my money. The reason, as fans, I do not like the extra year is because we'd like to believe that they reinvest the money after contracts expire into new free agents or resigning their own FA. But I have no reason as a Mets fan to believe that. So, I'd take just signing them, and let them worry about the length of contract.
And the Niese situation is completely different. That was a situation of both parties mutually leveraging and using one another. For Niese, he gets paid before his rookie contract ends. And for the Mets, they get a guy that they intend to use as an under contract trade chip. So, the idea is not the same
Last edited by DirtyJerZ; 11-23-2012 at 12:16 AM. Reason: Stupid spell check
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