Hardly - I've never even intimated that the injuries are an excuse for their pathetic play. You're the one who brought up the payroll, however, not I, and the fact that almost half of that payroll isn't even playing shows how meaningless and completely irrelevant it is.
You are the one who brought up injuries. The fact that the Mets have the 2nd highest payroll in the sport and have a losing record is laughable. That was my whole fuckin' point. Nothing more should be read into it.
Right, I brought up injuries because if almost all of the highly-paid players on your roster aren't playing, the fact that you're paying them has nothing to do with the performance of the team. Baseball has no salary cap, the Mets get 3 million + in attendance every year, and they own a TV network in the biggest media market in the country, so they can afford whatever they want to spend. I couldn't care less what their payroll is, and this year it means even less than it usually does. That was my whole fuckin' point. Nothing more should be read into it.
I'm going to bring up the payroll when I have to pay an arm and a leg to sit in awful seats (worse than any at Shea Stadium and I had been in most sections there) at the Mets new "state of the art" ballpark and have to deal with garbage baseball all season and all decade for that matter save the 2006 season. David Wright is an All Star and got spooked by a fan 15 feet away yesterday and it caused him to not catch a ball many 12-year olds would catch. When I can get a cheap seat ($15 or less) that allows me to see more than 15% of the field and the Mets play harder maybe I'll stop talking about the payroll.
How about not paying to watch the team play then? No one's forcing you to buy those tickets. The only thing the payroll does to me is highlight how awful Omar's roster construction is yet again. You've got a few guys that are ridiculously overpaid which make up like 80% of the payroll, then everyone else resides Reyes and Wright are bargain basement trash. There really is no mid level talent on this team, it's either "superstar" or borderline shouldn't be in the major leagues. It's quite absurd.
Yeah, I'm done. I went to the one game in April and was turned off by the experience. That is part of the problem here. After seven or eight players, it's all garbage. Some of that garbage, though, is getting good money, such as Castillo and Perez. The stack of garbage just keeps getting higher and higher.
6 players account for 81.5M of the payroll this year, and 4 of the 6 have missed signficant time. If you want to throw in Castillo at 6M, Reyes at 5.75M Schneider at 5M and Putz at 5M that's an even larger percentage of the payroll that has been essentially worthless this season.
If the Jets had a pro-bowler at QB, RB, WR, DE, LT and every single one of those guys missed significant playing time i would expect the Jets to suck, and not dismiss as "excuses" when their backups played poorly and didn't execute to a pro-bowl level. The Mets aren't missing one guy. Not two guys. They're missing 6. Even more then that have been on the DL or missed significant playing time. No other team in MLB this year has had so many front line players miss this amount of time. Dogshit backups play like dogshit over time. Thats not an excuse. It's a fact.
I went over this with you in another thread. Only four players of note are out- Maine, Delgado, Reyes, and Beltran. The rest are cocksuckers.
I pretty much always expect the Jets to suck, and they rarely let me down. I understand how you Mets fans feel, really, I do.
Maybe a salary cap would be good for the Mets because they sure as hell can't compete now. One playoff season since the '00 WS? That is absurd. All the resources and money the Mets have to play around with and it has gotten them virtually nowhere.
I'm feeling good about my avoiding this thread for the series. It's never worth it when we're losing.
