Mets Join Yanks In Sabathia Chase?

are you kidding me? What happend to "They only have $25 million to spend" To me this is his agents driving up the Yankees price.

reardentech,

i read that in one of these sites. Right now theyre at about 120million or so without resigning Perez. They need 2 starters IMO if they don't sign him and while I don't want them to get a new bullpen I expect them to! Oh and there's talk around that their hitters aren't clutch enough so maybe they'd want to drag Pete Rose out of retirement if he promises to stop gambling and Selig lets him back in, so i think they have more fish to fry (haha Marlins joke) than going after CC. Unless of course they want to get into the Yankees stratosphere of payroll.

cubbyfan,

somehow i still feel the mets will find a way to screw it up, even if they got CC. Come on now, they're the Mets.

gotta love philly fans....

so insecure like their boy, jimmy rollins. it's not enough to win but then like the true schmucks they are have to throw barbs at the mets. it's pretty funny and sad at the same time.

the mets aren't getting cc although i'd love them to. it's k-rod, one or two lower tier starters to supplement #57, big pelf and maine and then retool the bullpen.

FranzFerdinand,

dont' be bitter that your UnAmazin' Mets got blown out of the water for the second year in a row in the NL East. Philly was just better, pal.

matty and franz,

you see that's what gets us philly fans riled up. You act like we didn't win and you lost. The Mets can make all the excuses they want, but in the end we won. That's what pissses me off about Mets fans the most. I don't care that they spend 20-25% or more than us or that we can't afford to keep all our players (Burrell) if we wanted to and that you can afford to get a second closers salary on your staff. Give us a little credit, that's all. If you did that, I think you'd see a kinder, gentler Phillies fan (or at least as much as that's possible.)

MattyMets,

I'm not a Phillies fan, just pointing out that you should give them respect when it is due. I know its hard cuz they are a rival and I respect that, but all the same, they are the champions.

looks like someone needs to take a remedial course on reading comprehension. care to quote exactly where i said anything about "the phillies not winning and the mets lost".

hint: you won't find it because i never said it. what i did say is it's funny and sad how you fans and your team are still preoccupied with the mets when you won the wc. i guess not meaning much in 25 years will do that to a city.

the mets don't need pudge. did you see him play with the tigers/yankees this past season? no thanks.

derek lowe would be nice but the yankees and sox might overpay for him. omar will have to be creative with the pursuit of starters this offseason as outside of cc, everyone else has major issues that give you pause and carry significant "buyer beware" baggage with them. case in point? oliver perez.

looks like someone needs to take a remedial course on reading comprehension. care to quote exactly where i said anything about "the phillies not winning and the mets lost".

hint: you won't find it because i never said it. what i did say is it's funny and sad how you fans and your team are still preoccupied with the mets when you won the wc. i guess not meaning much in 25 years will do that to a city.

Actually it was the WS(WORLD SERIES) we won, not the WC (Wildcard) that's what you couldn't even do. Oh and i was referring to MattyMets who said:

The Mets unbelievably handed the division to Philly two frickin' years in a row,

Should i have lumped you two toghether, probably not, but i also didn't made a snide remark about reading comprehension now did I?

and nymforlife,

Jimmy calls it like he sees it. Actually he was wrong about one prediction. He said before the season started that we'd win 100 games this year (we won 103).

And admit it, if he was on your team you'd love him.

And everyone doesn't hate the Phillies, everyone hates the Mets because of their antics (elbow bumps etc). Remember the Jose, Jose, Jose chants by Braden Looper of the Cards after you lost to them in the NLCS in 2006. How about the Marlins that LIVE to beat you guys on the last weekend of the season. Even NYC radio announcers/sportswriters etc admit that the Mets are the team in the NL that fans of other teams love to hate because of their "attitude". I heard one announcer say a couple weeks back that the Mets "have a superiority complex with absolutely no reason to have one". Summed it up pretty good I thought.

Can't wait for Spring Training. Good luck finding a bullpen.

actually i'm not testy at all. i'm actually laughing at your obvious inferiority complex. stop worrying about the mets and focus on your team who wants to repeat.

don't you have homework to do, little boy?

pretty original stuff, phils...

still seeking validation. how about we let the mets fans and people who follow baseball aka the adults discuss and you can go back to your jimmy rollins action figure, ok little boy?

"The Mets have way too many holes to be spending $25 million per year on Sabathia. Either way, they'll manage to lose 2-1 every time CC starts if he were to become a Met."

The funny thing is this was also the case last year, when the Mets had too many holes to give Santana 20 million, but nobody gave a shyt last year. And atleast CC wouldn't cost prospects. Why the hell not? Sign CC, let Murphy/Tatis play LF, Let Heilman/Niese be the 5th starter, let Castillo play second (or find another 2B for 3 million, that isn't a hard hole to fill), and put together a bullpen made up of guys like Juan Cruz and Jeremy Affeldt, and then trade for a closer. It could be done.

I give the Phillies credit for winning the last weeks but it wouldn't have happened if the Mets bullpen didn't blow it.

you see there you all go disrespecting the World Champs again.

Oh and Franz, i'm tired of your game. I love the "act like he's a kid" routine. Let's put it this way, I'm not old enough to remember Jim Bunning as a Phillie but plenty old enough to remember Dave Cash. Time for you to move on now. Thankfully not all Mets fans are like you.

nrmax,

i've gotta disagree with you 100%

How about looking at it from another perspective. How about we are both evenly matched teams fighting for the same thing and we have a little more guts, guile, whatever you want to call it to pull it out. Feel free to blame it on injuries or whatever you like, I've seen that charachterization too (not from you but from others)

I really doubt that if the tables were turned Phillies fans would be saying that we "HANDED YOU" the division or whatever context most Mets fans say.

To me its as if Red Sox fans were to say, hey, we handed the Rays the divsion. They didn't, they won it outright and I don't think I've ever heard or seen a Red Sox fan say that. A 162 game season doesn't allot for chance and happenstance. Maybe in a 16 game football season, but not 162 games.

And in 2007 we beat you "personally" in the last 8 games we played.

2009 starts anew and IF you can get past us and win the division I'll be pissed but I won't go and say we handed it to you.

Well said surdo. I think the Phillies Vs Mets may end up being the National League equivalent of Yankees Vs Red Sox.

Let's Go Phillies