In a post by MLBTradeRumors they quote Mets 3B David Wright to say the following regarding earlier reports from today.
“I have said from Day 1 that I want to play my entire career with the New York Mets. I remain hopeful that goal can be achieved. However, I am disappointed by the reports that I have read today which are inaccurate,”
What specific reports he’s referring to is hard to say but if and when a resolution to these negotiations are reached we may then know. Read the rest of the article as Wright’s agent Seth Levinson is also quoted in it.
43 comments
SaltyGary
11/27/2012-7:17pm at 7:17 pm (UTC -4)
Something tells me the agent wants a lid on it seeing the higher it goes the more outrage there is. All about leverage.
darknova306
11/27/2012-7:18pm at 7:18 pm (UTC -4)
Always a damn soap opera with this freaking team and it’s legion of worthless clown beat writers.
I really want the season to start so we can be past all this nonsense…
TX
11/27/2012-7:20pm at 7:20 pm (UTC -4)
HAHAHAHA…. 200+ posts, all for nothing, other than to reduce my productivity at work.
SaltyGary
11/27/2012-7:32pm at 7:32 pm (UTC -4)
It’s OK because it’s celebration ale time. Everything in the world is correct once again.
darknova306
11/27/2012-7:33pm at 7:33 pm (UTC -4)
YEAH! I’m on board the Celebration Ale train.
SaltyGary
11/27/2012-7:37pm at 7:37 pm (UTC -4)
It is by far my favorite beer. Just picked up 2 cases. I will keep drinking it until there is nothing left of it.
Other recent notables were a Allagash 4 Ale. Wasn’t too impressed. I let it sit around for 3 months and it probably could of used another year. Got better as it breathed but pretty stiff. And am also drinking a lot of Smuttynose Porter and Long Trail Double Bag. Good stuff to keep you warm.
darknova306
11/27/2012-7:40pm at 7:40 pm (UTC -4)
Definitely! Love the Smuttynose Porter (actually, most of their beers), and the Double Bag is one of the few Long Trail beers I really like. Sounds like you’ve got a solid lineup to get you through the offseason doldrums.
TX
11/27/2012-10:08pm at 10:08 pm (UTC -4)
Been bouncing between Duschuttes Inversion IPA, New Belgium Ranger, Pike’s IPA and Snoqualmie IPA. That, and a different bomber every time I hit the store. Ninkasi’ s Domination Tricerahops (2IPA) are pretty decent too.
Stick
11/27/2012-8:49pm at 8:49 pm (UTC -4)
who brews the celebration ale?
Darknova
11/27/2012-9:05pm at 9:05 pm (UTC -4)
Sierra Nevada. One of the most consistently solid breweries out there.
Rustyjr
11/27/2012-7:25pm at 7:25 pm (UTC -4)
Can this nightmare just end already ?!?
darknova306
11/27/2012-7:42pm at 7:42 pm (UTC -4)
Wilpons still own the team, so the nightmare continues unabated. Drink up! SHOTS!
Hazmet
11/27/2012-8:02pm at 8:02 pm (UTC -4)
More importantly, today would have been Jimi Hendrix’s 70th birthday. Happy Birthday Jimi! Wherever you are.
SaltyGary
11/27/2012-8:15pm at 8:15 pm (UTC -4)
Yea it is. I was at a Phish show in ’92 on this day and they did Bold as Love, it was pretty sweet.
Hazmet
11/27/2012-9:08pm at 9:08 pm (UTC -4)
Random Music Stuff:
A friend of mine used to do visual background displays and lighting for Phish. Years ago he developed the process and software of having all those multiple screens together and synched to do audio visual stuff. Then he sold the company after he migrated from doing this for bands. This was when they were just getting started.
My Brother In Law’s mom also used to own Cafe Wha when Hendrix would play there before he left for the UK and became famous.
They had a question on some guitar site: “what’s the Hendrix song that influenced you the most?” I took it a little differently from a riff perspective. I went for House Burning Down. However, with the comment of how can you pick just one?
Saltygary
11/27/2012-10:03pm at 10:03 pm (UTC -4)
Do you remember what years? Prob been to 30 shows from 92-98
TX
11/27/2012-10:16pm at 10:16 pm (UTC -4)
You can’t pick just one. Though I have to say that of them all, Waterfalls moves me the most.
asod75
11/27/2012-10:42pm at 10:42 pm (UTC -4)
Did you see there’s another Hendrix album coming out of unreleased stuff? Not really sure if it’s unreleased or they’re just billing it that way as most of this stuff has been available on bootlegs for years and on some posthumous releases, but thought I’d share….
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/jimi-hendrixs-engineer-cues-up-people-hell-and-angels-single-somewhere-20121127
Stick
11/27/2012-8:51pm at 8:51 pm (UTC -4)
so, does this mean that there is still a chance they trade him?
frankly, at this point, what the F is the hold up? just sign him or trade him. Hell, make him the freaking catcher. Just do something definitive so we can move on with life, and planning the rest of the off season (oh wait, I forgot, they are done. scratch that last part).
Darknova
11/27/2012-9:09pm at 9:09 pm (UTC -4)
Hold on, now. The rest of the offseason needs to be planned thoroughly! What island will they spend three months on? It’s a big decision…
Stick
11/27/2012-10:25pm at 10:25 pm (UTC -4)
pay attention dude. I already told you it was Aruba. Drinking Mai Tais!
darknova306
11/28/2012-12:07am at 12:07 am (UTC -4)
How can you be sure they picked Aruba?!? Maybe they decided to go to a different island!
Stick
11/28/2012-12:19am at 12:19 am (UTC -4)
it’s my fantasy. They go where I tell them to.
Hazmet
11/27/2012-9:32pm at 9:32 pm (UTC -4)
Alright I’ll play baseball comment stuff, imo:
They are going to trade him. This is about poisoning the negotiating pool to cause hard feelings in advance of the Winter Meetings and then they trade him and say, “we tried, we offered a -fill in the fictional amount- and he wanted more”. So the stirrings today irk Team David in 2 ways:
1. They probably never offered the amount they are talking about so it will tick them off, and
2. They leaked information when he wanted negotiations confidential, which will tick them off. Thereby leaving them in the position to:
Enter the Winter Meetings with the need to trade David to any interested parties since it looks like they won’t be able to sign him for the fictional amount they never offered and they’ll portray his demands as unreasonable to try to give them cover when they pull the trigger.
It’s almost too obvious, imho.
asod75
11/27/2012-9:41pm at 9:41 pm (UTC -4)
I suggested it in the other thread and it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Hazmet
11/27/2012-9:44pm at 9:44 pm (UTC -4)
Thumbs up!
So many posts so little time of late.
Stick
11/27/2012-10:27pm at 10:27 pm (UTC -4)
sounds like a plan to me!
srt
11/28/2012-8:55am at 8:55 am (UTC -4)
Came to the same conclusion.
It’s going to get ugly, isn’t it?
Mr North Jersey
11/27/2012-9:14pm at 9:14 pm (UTC -4)
MLB.com has another quote from Wright saying it’s been “important to me from the beginning that these negotiations remain confidential.”
http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121127&content_id=40427016&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb&partnerId=aw-8454763456797911339-996
Mr North Jersey
11/27/2012-9:17pm at 9:17 pm (UTC -4)
This tweet puts the quote into better context.
@AnthonyDiComo
Wright declined comment when contacted. Said it’s been “important to me from the beginning that these negotiations remain confidential.”
https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/273594592107057152
Stick
11/27/2012-10:30pm at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
talk about naive. These things never stay completely under cover.
if he wants this done, just plop a final, non-negotiable offer on the table, and tell the team to take it or they are done and not signing anything, so trade him if that is what they want.
or stopping being a whiny teenager, and go on the offensive! play the negotiating game baby!
frankly, you can’t have it both ways, and get top $/years beat everyone contract, and also pretend to be not interested in money and pure as the driven snow!
Prismo
11/27/2012-9:39pm at 9:39 pm (UTC -4)
For those who missed it, on Twitter I called out Heyman and Rosenthal on this and Rosenthal responded. We had a very friendly conversation and he admitted he was a hack. Or something like that.
Hazmet
11/27/2012-9:45pm at 9:45 pm (UTC -4)
lol I love it. If only we could be so fortunate as to stumble into such a postion.
Saltygary
11/27/2012-10:05pm at 10:05 pm (UTC -4)
Rofl
Saltygary
11/27/2012-10:14pm at 10:14 pm (UTC -4)
Oh shit I just looked it up and u nailed him. Great job.
Stick
11/27/2012-10:32pm at 10:32 pm (UTC -4)
almost makes me want to figure out how to use twitter. Not really of course. But feel free to post some captures.
asod75
11/27/2012-10:38pm at 10:38 pm (UTC -4)
I have made my feelings known and felt compelled to write about them on my blog tonight. Trying to get writing on there again after a break. Check it out if you guys feel so compelled. Don’t expect regular readers, just will make my posts on there known on here every now and again so I don’t feel like they are just hanging out there unread in the Internet ether…..
http://asod75.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/mets-about-to-make-big-mistake/
Stick
11/27/2012-11:06pm at 11:06 pm (UTC -4)
good piece. pretty much agrees with my thinking on the matter.
asod75
11/28/2012-12:12am at 12:12 am (UTC -4)
Thanks Stick. This team and its management is so frustrating. I honestly bought that crap they were trying to sell when Sandy came aboard. That they’d actually build through the draft and make wiser business decisions. Instead, they throw unneeded money at crappy relievers last year (Francisco, Rauch) and are about to sign Wright to a huge deal, which will lock up a great percentage of the payroll to one guy AGAIN. Look, if Wright was 26 or 27, I could handle this kind of a move. But he will be 31 when the extension takes hold, meaning we’ll probably get 2-3 peak years from him if that. (It can be argue he peaked at 23 or 24 but that’s another post). Now they’ll go bargain basement shopping for outfielders, when trading Wright could have landed them a nice young outfielder and possibly a catcher and another piece. Just don’t understand it.
Stick
11/28/2012-12:21am at 12:21 am (UTC -4)
well, to a large extent, it appears to be pandering to the lowest common denominator.
srt
11/28/2012-8:56am at 8:56 am (UTC -4)
I still have your site bookmarked from back when. Always enjoyed your articles.
‘I love the Mets and always will, but I get the sinking feeling they’ll never be a championship team as long as the Wilpons are in charge. At least I’ve got my 86 Mets championship DVDs to comfort me.’
I couldn’t agree more, Asod
kingman 26
11/27/2012-11:54pm at 11:54 pm (UTC -4)
LOL!
All I can say is that anyone who takes anything people like Olney or Martino says seriously has serious issues.
Professional fabricators.
Stick
11/27/2012-11:58pm at 11:58 pm (UTC -4)
this was too detailed and definitive, with a few different people reporting, to be just made up crap thrown on the wall.
obviously something funky behind it (which usually is info planted for a specific reason), but it had to be put out there for some purpose.