The guys you named for the red sox are that age now, and actually most of them are under 24 Papelbon is the one pulling their average up, but three years into epstein’s regime those guys have been highly rated prospects. We don’t have any prospects like that, and even with those guys in the major leagues the Red Sox still have a stacked farm system with guys like Lowrie and Masterson and Lars Anderson among others, so it’s not like it produced those guys and that was it.

And there are a lot more than just those guys for the Yankees, there’s also Canoe and Cabrera who are there all ready. There’s Austin Jackson, who’s still in the minors and Jose Tabata among others.

And what difference does the Cabrera trade make, the point is the Tigers were able to build a strong farm system in a short-time. Which we have not done, it has nothing to do with the trades we’ve made because the players who were traded were either mediocre prospects to begin with or they were brought in before Omar.

And you can call up a player who’s not ML ready, Milledge and Gomez weren’t ML ready when we called them up, neither is Evans now, or Pelfrey when he’s come up in previous years. The point is in tight spots when we have injuries we don’t have those guys to call up now. And after three years there’s no excuse for that either.

The point is in 3 years our farm system is basically in the same place it started, if not worse off, and is still lacking talent and depth. Omar has no excuse for that.

For the record, the Mets refused to extend Seaver’s deal, which has been signed before free agency, and Seaver was torn between wanting more money and wanting to be a Met. Dick Young’s coverage, portraying him as disloyal and money-grubbing, pushed him over the edge to the point that he demanded a trade.

The night before the trade deadline, Seaver and the Mets had a meeting to clear the air. The Mets agreed to talk money after the season and to honor Seaver’s trade request if he still wanted to leave. According to his own account, Seaver went to bed planning on rescinding his demand and staying a Met.

But the next morning, Young wrote another column which slammed Seaver’s wife. Without ever citing a source, he accused Nancy Seaver (many/most believe falsely) of being money-hungry and throwing a tantrum until her husband agreed to make his original demand. Convinced the club was responsible for leaking the false report, Seaver called the front office screaming and cursing and demanding a trade right then and there. The Mets honored his request, even though they got almost nothing back in return.

Grant was a miserable human being, by most accounts, but if anyone bullied him into trading Seaver, it was Seaver himself.

Where is a guy like Ray Knight when you need him?

This team is TOO NICE.

Nice guys finish a game behind the Phillies.

He may not be such a bad idea.

Um,…he took the 2000 Chicago Whitesox to the post season.

Fact check before you make comments

Oh they claim losses for taxes. But the income, and the value of the franchise has gone straight up every single year.

Look it up.