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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Finally the trade that will send us to the playoffs!

This is what weve been waiting for. The boys in the front office finally realized that they need to make a trade in order to get to the playoffs. So now they will finally get the help they needed after a mostly disappointing last few months. Thats right folks.  The New York Rangers have acquired Calgary Flames center Olli Jokinen for Ales Kotalik. What? You thought that i was talking about maybe Carlos Zambrano? Or Bronsson Arroyo?  No no no. The Mets have taken care of business already with the additions of "super reserve" Alex Cora, a "power hitting first baseman to platoon with Daniel Murphy" in Fernando Tatis, "shored up the bullpen" with Josh Fogg - i mean how much more do they need to do? But seriously, people need to realize that this is a very good team. Could they use another pitcher? Yes. But overall there are alot worse things than having  a healthy Jose Reyes leading off (and by the way if you didnt watch the clip on SNY about Jose Reyes, you really need to watch it to get fired up - especially the end where he pumps his fist and says hes ready)  and then followed in the lineup by David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay and Jeff Francour. Not bad. Im sure alot of teams would do anything to have a core like that. Ive said it before and ill say it again. The most important addition to the Mets this year would be a healthy Jose Reyes.
While im on the topic of other sports - has it really been 9 years since the Knicks sent a player to the All-Star game? What happened to this once proud franchise? Perhaps its the curse of Spree. 

The Knicks have not had an All-Star since 2001, when Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston were their ambassadors. The only team with a longer drought is the Golden State Warriors, who haven’t had an All-Star since 1997. His name: Latrell Sprewell.
As a Mets/Jets fan nothing got me more nearvous than this headline about Mark Sanchize in the New York Post 
"Jets QB's left leg, not right, needs surgery"


I could see it now - "Mets doctors asked to operate on Mark Sanchez - operate on wrong knee. Sanchez says - 'In retrospect I really should have listened to my new buddy Carlos Beltran and not gotten that third opinion' " 


As for JJ Putz (video here article here) - I have a message for all these guys - Shut up and play! You want to prove the Mets were wrong, go out on the field and dominate. Stop making excuses. 


Also it was nice to see this headline from the Daily News
"New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman conjures up budget woes to demonize Johnny Damon"


The first budget ever in Yankees history! Come on guys - say it like it is - you had no interest in him and once Boras started comparing him to Jeter - you had an easy excuse. Or did Jeter not want him on the team because he didnt want anyone who was compared to him on his team? hmmmm)


How do like that? Covered all three major sports plus hockey in one post ;)


at 6:24 AM

5 comments:

  1. Wow, where do I start?

    First, the Rangers: I think the trade was actually a good one, less for this season than to clear room for the future. Higgins and Kotalik were busts, dead weight that they needed to ditch. What they got instead are two pieces that, if don't fit into the puzzle, are free agents that they aren't permanently saddled with.

    But you never know, they might fit in. Jokinen might be the center they need to help set up Gaborik. In Prust, hopefully they get the bite to follow up on Avery's bark. They sure looked like they needed it the last time Gaborik was forced to drop his gloves.

    Next, the Knicks: You mention how it's been almost nine years without an all-star. Funny, isn't that overlaps the Ranger's playoff drought? (yes, it ended in '06, but I belive that it was the longest they had gone without making the playoffs, and they're still not back to what they were in the early nineties.) I think the two teams misfortunes are actually connected by the top level management they share: James Dolan.

    Everyone likes to say that Isaiah Thomas must have had some hold on Dolan to have lasted as long as he did. No one is saying that about Glenn Sather, and he's been around for about as long, and has had only slightly better results. Any other owner would have said, long ago, “We think highly of Glenn, but we need to shake things up”. I think the problem is that Dolan just doesn't know how to fire a GM.

    The Jets: I used to lump them in with the Mets and Knicks as a haplessly chronic bunch of underperformers with the lousiest of luck. Not after this season – BUT – that surgery makes me nervous. It’s not exactly an ingrown toenail.

    Last but not least, the Yankees: Ever notice that, free-spending as they may be, their front office, managers and, to a certain degree, star players also seem to be pretty professional, never saying or doing anything anything TOO stupid. Yes, A-Rod has been fodder for the tabloids, but I say he’s the excpetion that proves the rule. Hate ‘em if you want, but the Yankees make the back page of the Post for their performance (or failures) on the field, not off.
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  2. Oh, and one more thing: right now, in this town, you should have written "all three major sports plus basketball"
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  3. Oh, and one more one more thing: Do you really think anyone takes Boras seriously when he compares Damon to Jeter. Another case of Boras not doing what's best for his clients' bottom line, rather than what's best for their ego.
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  4. Only one line for the great Josh Fogg signing?
    You actually mentioned the RANGERS? I am shocked!
    and you forgot to mention the Nets and Devils? O right no one gives a damn about them!
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  5. That's funny I thought this was a sports blog, why would anyone be talking about hockey here?
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