A Word To You Prospects – Mack Ade

This goes out to the prospect players (and their family members) that read Mack’s Mets.

This is all just my opinion. There are no facts here. It’s just babble by what some bloggers call a sick old man.

This is also not an anti-Mets message to you; it is an anti-Wilpon message. You do not want to sign a long term deal with this team until someone else is sitting in the owner’s chair.

The Wilpon’s will pay what the league says they have to pay you and not a dollar more. Work hard, win games, but don’t do what Jon Niese has done unless you feel you don’t have the talent to make more that he’s going to be paid over the length of his contract.

The Wilpon Mets had two opportunities to sign the heart and soul of this team. They let one leave (Jose Reyes) without even a back-ended offer and they choose to disrespect David Wright with all this non-speak Fred and Sandy seem to have down now. Fred says “talk to Sandy” and Sandy says “we’ll get around to it”. Give me a fucking break! This is Jose Reyes and David Wright. What chance do you have?

Guys, I’ve worked my ass off for almost nine years writing about you… for free… and all I ever asked for was a press pass and a decent team. I haven’t seen a better manager than TC and Sandy Alderson seems like a decent man, but he made a big mistake taking the Commissioner’s advice to go to work for this family.

Check with your friends on other teams. No free agents want to sign here and no agents recommend them joining this team. The scouting division has been ransacked twice and they barely have enough money to pay the ‘vig’ on the money they owe.

The Los Angeles Dodgers proved overnight what “new money” can do for a bad organization. Were you impressed with what they did before the trading deadline? Well, wait until you see what they do in the off season. These are the kind of teams 26-32 year old superstars want to play for, and you can’t get to the World Series without a handful of these on your team.

The Mets had them on their team. Their names were Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, Johan Santana, Pedro Martinez, Carlos Delgado… and David Wright. All will be gone by the end of next season. All of them. Go out there and make a star out of yourself and I promise, I will write the hell out of you, but please don’t sign a long term contract with these bastards.

The only chance the New York Mets have someday is for the same thing that happened in Los Angeles to happen in New York.  People have to stop supporting this front office. Seats have to be left empty. T-shirts have to read “Brooklyn Nets” or “New York Giants”.

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I’ll give Omar Minaya credit for one thing. He had Fred’s attention, but they both lived in an economy we may not see again for decades. New York City may be the largest city in the country but that means there are more positive things a New Yorker can do than anyone else in America. I am a New Yorker. We like to be around winners and we sure as hell don’t support losers for long. Sports are important, but, trust me, there is hockey and then there’s the Islanders.

You need to listen carefully here. You’re about to begin to make some serious ching for the rest of your life and there will come a time that money will not be everything. You will also want to be a winner and that means you’re going to have to take your game to a team that supports what you produce, not the other way around.

The math is staggering. There are 8,000,000,000 people on this earth and there are only 30 shortstops. Do you have any idea how much that is worth if you go all the way?

Again, this is just the ramblings of a babbling old ‘tough-guy wannabe’, something I was called recently online. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Fred and Ethel have two hearts in their chests and they are going to solidify the rebuilding process by telling Wright’s agent to bring the top offer to the table and the Mets will add 10% to it.

Then, Sandy will get Jason Bay to agree to give all the contracted 2013 money to Michael Bourn to replace him in the 2013 outfield.

You know what? Bourn wouldn’t take the offer, and Wright’s agent wouldn’t even show up for the meeting.

No one wants anything to do with Fred and Jeff Wilpon.

No one.

Players, coaches, agents, players, scouts, workers, family members, vendors, blind monkeys… no one.

And to you, fathers, agents, advisors, and older brothers… read this post three more times. If the player around you is that good… well, then he deserves a great team to play for. The Mets are no longer a great team because of how they are run by the people that own them.

But, like I said, this is just my opinion, and what the hell does a babbling old wannabe know, anyway?