Mets front office problems

Originally posted on 5/26

Reportedly the short-handed Mets likely will apparently wait until Friday to decide whether to put shortstop Jose Reyes on the disabled list. Reyes hasn’t played since last Wednesday after hurting his right calf at Los Angeles, an injury that kept him out of seven games on a 10-game trip. What’s wrong with the Mets hierarchy? How irresponsible can they be?

First of all, every time they pull this crap and leave a lame player on the bench, they leave their manager shorthanded. And what about the player? This regime has had Ryan Church fly to Colorado and back last year with a concussion. This year they had Carlos Delgado fly to California and back only to operate on him. Now they are dragging Jose Reyes from NY to SF, to SD, to LA, to BOS, and back to NY and they have no clue when he’ll play.

The reason they collapse every year may have more to do with the front office then the players.

Church can’t play – no DL……and now they say Carlos Beltran is has bruised knee and an inflamed tibia so he can’t play for at least a few days (at a minimum) but no DL. What gives? They have Church, Beltran, and Reyes all on the bench, they can’t play, and they won’t replace them with healthy bodies. I’m not a Manuel fan but I’d be pissed if I was told that three of my starters were hurt (2 all-star), they couldn’t play until who knows when and that I had to play minus 3 bodies. Sheesh!

These guys would be nothing more than perennial basement dwellers in my roto league. - James Morrison

Jim (no relation to the dead Door’s guy) is a self proclaimed rotisserie expert. Jim has been participating in an serious Ultra-Rotisserie league (you can protect some minor leaguers too) at $2,600 per team instead of $260 (similar to Ultimate Franchise Baseball ™) for the past 17 years and has finished in the money 14 times with 8 First place finishes and over $260,000 in total winnings over the 17 year period. While the world is full of institutions and people that come with disclaimers on how past performance is no guarantee of future results, Jim is brazen enough to claim that it will be in your best interest to follow his advice going forward. He’ll write it, we’ll publish it and we shall see………