Gammons Chat: Crisp, Santana, Ramirez

Do any one knows what he means by building up inventory ?

Is it just me or does it seem that outside of Boston and New York, Gammons has been mailing it in?

Dee Edge I was wondering about that too. "Building up inventory" WTF Peter Gammons? Lets back up what we say a little huh Peter.

What guys on their roster aside from Heilman, can they afford to give up? They can't trade anyone who could produce desirable prospects for the Twins. If they do, please tell me?

They certainly can't trade a prospect to another team if they want to complete a trade with the Twins.

Hence the word try. No one said it was easy or even likely for the Mets to get Santana. All Gammons said was that they were trying, which is just another report that the Mets are still interested in Santana. He did not report a specific for that assertion primarily for the reasons you are pointing out, the Mets will be hard pressed to increase their inventory, but that does not mean they are not allowed to try, and if they are attempting such a move, even if it is unlikely to work, then it is at least newsworthy compared to other Santana "news" of the past week.

~~~~Is it just me or does it seem that outside of Boston and New York, Gammons has been mailing it in?~~~~~~~~

Peter is as unbiased as George Mitchell is.

"But this sounds like useless info, that is be more false than true."

What exactly is false about what he is saying? It is not very useful but you have to remember he is answering a question. This was not intended on his part to be some breaking news story. He simply said that Smith may be waiting to see if the Mets efforts go anywhere as a response to a question about the way smith is handling the negotiations.

"I would be more accepting of this info if he had suggested that the Mets are trying to work a third team in."

So you are contradicting yourself by saying you would prefer he presented info that was actually false or that he could not backup?

As far as I can tell you are taking Gammons comments out of context and bashing him for them largely because you want more info about the Santana negotiations. That is fine, who does not want more info about them but bashing a reporter for not being able to provide what does not exist during a fan chat containing several questions about music does not make much sense to me.

It would have been nice if Gammons could have given us some sort of example of how they could possibly pull something like this off. Im with Coolpapabell, sounds like he just made it up. If the Mets are trying so hard to find more prospects and this is what is possibly keeping Bill Smith waiting then why are we just hearing it now. Seems like Gammons is reachign for something that isnt there.

Santana is not allowed to hurt himself cooking bacon, getting in/out of the hot tub, or getting drunk and blaming it on the dog until after the Twins trade him.

Max if he gets hurt on bacon, we are coming looking for you... on the twins or as prospects he is a big part of the Twins Future.. so Max dont jinx him. :-)

There is nothing new to report so every reporter is grasping at straws trying to come up with a new angle on an old story. Everyone wants to know what is going on, but the truth is I'd rather hear nothing than someone making stuff up. We know the Mets are involved, but what proof do we have that they are "trying to build up inventory" -- do you really thin Smith is on the edge of his chair waiting for Omar to find a prospect he forgot about under the couch cushion?

Walkoff, when I said, "I would be more accepting of this info if he had suggested that the Mets are trying to work a third team in." I mean that it would be more believable. His comment sounds absolutley odd and not consistent with what has been written regarding the Johan situation. If he is going to say something that defies logic then well, give me a scource then. I haven't read anything that would suggest that Gammons is near the mark on this. His comment did not make sense. Alright, so he didn't write, it was a chat in which he was talking out of his you know what.

Walkoff, I am sorry for the confusion, and I will try to be a bit clearer next time.

In short Gammons is making no sense here.

Where'd the Dodger rumor come from?