Carlos Money Sucking Beltran to join Mets

From the Seats, January 11, 2005

NEW YORK - The good ol’ Mets, willing to overpay for just about anyone, going to desperate measures to get big names. The latest is Carlos Beltran, who could get a 7 year $119 million deal. That would average out to be $17 million a year. Are you serious?

Thank you Mr. Scott Boras, along with the Yankees you are doing everything possible to ruin baseball. Perhaps the Mets are joining in on that too, since they did sign Pedro Martinez from Boston for $53 million for 4 years and the club is said to have interest in Maglio Ordonez, who turned down some $50 million over 3 years.

What I find interesting about the Mets is that they appear to always spend money, and are either good enough to make the playoffs or are very bad. I am no expert on them, but I don't think they have had a winning season since 2000 when they appeared in the World Series to lose to the Yankees.

To me, the Mets are playing bad baseball, they are trying to buy their way to the playoffs and after these contracts run out they will be horrible because they will have no one and wont be able to afford them.

I am not saying that the Mets need to follow the way of the Twins, but it seems to make so much more sense. The Twins are set up right now where they should not have a long period of time with a losing record. With the Twins keeping an interest in their minor league system it should not be long to stay competitive.

A number of teams are trying to copy what the Twins have going, which took a long time for the Twins to set up, the second half of the 90s for an example. It was miserable for fans, but it makes more sense than to spend like the Mets, Yankees, Angles, and Red Sox do. These teams are not helping baseball.