Archive: January 13th, 2012

F-Mart Ironic Untouchable Exercise

On the heels of Fernando Martinez‘s exile to Houston, let’s play a little game inspired by F-Mart’s “untouchable” status of the past few years:

1. Instead of releasing F-Mart, would you have traded him for Manny Ramirez?

2. Instead of releasing F-Mart, would you have traded him for Johan Santana?

3. Instead of releasing F-Mart, would you have traded him for Jason Bay?

Mind you, in participating in this exercise, you must assume you are operating in the moment — i.e., TODAY. This is not an exercise in “what might have been”, etc. Rather, pretend you had the power to trade Fernando Martinez as he is today for one of those three players as they are right now.

Game on …

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Fred Wilpon is Optimistic

Never mind all the naysayers poo-poohing the current state of the Mets — including yours truly. It’s all hogwash and unfair negativity. Mets fans, fear not and be optimistic, because Fred Wilpon is feeling really good about your favorite Flushing baseball club.

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