Pedro and Sammy to the Mets?

[madinmaryland]

:wtf:



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In recent years, the Mets front office swung and missed when trying to land free agents Vlad Guerrero, A-Rod and Mike Mussina. Will new Mets GM Omar Minaya overpay to put his stamp on this Mets club? According to this morning's New York papers, the Mets have submitted a contract to Pedro Martínez that tops the two-year, $25.5 million deal offered by the Red Sox. The Mets' deal is said to be a three-year, $37.5 million package with a vesting option for the fourth year if Martinez stays healthy. A move to Queens makes sense for Pedro -- the Mets offer what AL teams courting him can't: less taxing, DH-less lineups, as I wrote about in this space last week.

Minaya, who has also aggressively pursued another declining star, Sammy Sosa, is making the same mistake his predecessors did: throwing money around as if the team is one or two All-Star additions from becoming a playoff team. The Mets were dreadful in '04, and they were dreadful in '03, and the addition of a Martinez circa '99 doesn't guarantee them games in October. This is a lot of cash for a declining righthander who has lost five mph on his fastball over recent years and whose 5-foot-11, 180-pound frame logged a hefty 217 innings this past season. Meanwhile, the other team in New York, desperate for arms, has not offered Martinez a contract even though George Steinbrenner met with Martinez on Nov. 16 in Tampa.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/albert_chen/11/30/hot.stove/index.html

[Kira]

1. Good. Let them have Pedro

he is a traitor for talking with the Yankees. And having dinner with Arod? Don't let the door hit you on the way out. I wish they would take Schilling the * whore too.

[Socialist Dem]

2. And I say Good, let Sammy go to the Mets

He's been a "clubhouse cancer" lately who's fielding ability is diminishing month by month. It would be great for the Cubs to be rid of him.

Gee, you'd think after their recent tries at buying a pennant (all disasters), the Mets would have learned their lesson.

[Bluzmann57]

3. As a lifelong Cub fan

I say to the Mets, please take Sosa off our hands! He has done many good things in Chicago, but his antics in the last game of the season were just too much. Adios Sammy Sosa, if it's all true.