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Fred said things that you or I might say.

The problem is that when you or I say them there is little fall-out.  I won’t have reporters asking me what I meant.   The players won’t have to react to something said on Mets Police.

What happens when Sandy meets with an opposing GM and has to play a weak hand because the GM knows that the Mets are unlikely to pay Reyes?  It will be very easy to say to Sandy that they can just sign Jose in December.

Hey David Wright, face of the franchise…you’re no superstar.

How is David supposed to react to that when the reporters stalk him?

When David’s turn to be a free agent comes does he stand with Fred and listen to the speech about what he means to the franchise…or should David set up shop elsewhere?  Google “Dick Young Tom Seaver” to see how that plays out.

How do you convince a free agent player to come to Flushing?  Ownership will have your back?

Does Jose’s agent ask Fred to move him now?  Does David’s??

As for the rest of you Mets…the owner thinks you are a “shitty team.” Somewhere in that there must be some frustration with either Omar or Sandy, no?

Again – none of this is anything fans don’t say to other fans.  When Fred says it, it comes with a week of circus.

This is yet another completely unnecessary drama.

Today should be about “why is David Wright in LA” or complaining about the Subway Series (remember the series against the Yankees?  Seems like weeks ago now).

I can’t wait to see the spin, and the individual player reactions.

Oh, and when it calms down we’re gonna discuss the Dodgers thing at length…just not today.

Your thoughts?

 

Holy crap! Go read this now!!!!

(Reyes) “He thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money….He’s had everything wrong with him, He won’t get it.”

(Wright) “A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.”

 

If you want to come away feeling good about Fred, Saul Katz or Jeff Wilpon go read something else. I don’t feel like I like them more than I did when I got up this morning after reading it (a “big set of balls” and some model jets don’t warm me up to you) and I will leave it at that.

The article opens up with Fred handing the plans to Ebbetts Field to the architects. Before we’re done Jose Reyes finds out he’s not getting Carl Crawford money, David Wright is no superstar, Carlos Beltran is 65% of what he one was, and Ike Davis is a good hitter on a “shitty team.”

All that is probably true, but that’s Steinbrenner at his best. This sort of article will fuel the Mets chaos and Fred should know better.

Today is an off day which means bored reporters. The Mets better get their spin control machine warmed up and working better than usual.

At least we get this from Fred, “all the Dodger stuff – that was an error in judgment on my part.”

UPDATE:  Cerrone has some insights from the author

UPDATE:  The Ebbetts quote which will get undershadowed by the players stuff

I said to them, ‘Let me tell you how this is going to work,’ ” Wilpon told me recently. “ ‘The front of the building is going to look like Ebbets Field. And it’s going to have a rotunda—just like at Ebbets.’ And then I said, ‘Guess what. Here are the plans for Ebbets Field.’ And I handed them over.

THIS DATE IN METS HISTORY: Mike Piazza is acquired by the Mets from the Marlins on May 22, 1998 in exchange for Preston Wilson, Ed Yarnall and Geoff Goetz…New York chalks up its 1,000th victory in their history as Jerry Koosman beats the Expos, 4-1, on May 22, 1976.