Pro Baseball Central | Part of the Sportsday Radio Network » Mook http://www.probaseballcentral.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:15:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 IT’S ALLRIGHT OMAR, I AIN’ T MAD AT YA http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2009/01/13/it%e2%80%99s-allright-omar-i-ain%e2%80%99-t-mad-at-ya/ http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2009/01/13/it%e2%80%99s-allright-omar-i-ain%e2%80%99-t-mad-at-ya/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:36:46 +0000 Steve Keane http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=1159 Seems to me Mets land is spilt on the non-signing of Derek Lowe by the Mets and Lowe going to our rival the Atlanta Braves. As much as I wanted Lowe I feel Omar did the right thing here as I like Lowe but not enough to over pay like Frank Wren did. I love pizza but if I go into a pizzeria and the mook behind the counter tells me a slice is 10 bucks well then I’m not eating pizza that day. Now say the Chinese take out next door has a special of General Tso Chicken/Fried Rice/Egg Roll and sweet iced tea for 7 bucks, I’m not only getting a full meal but I also have 3 dollars left to by a Lotto ticket. 

Derek Lowe is the 10 dollar slice and Ollie Perez is the General Tso’s chicken.

If it took 4yrs/$60 mil for Lowe to sign with the Braves how far would you have wanted the Mets to go? 5yrs? $65 mil? That’s outrageous?

Same thing goes for OP, he better not have a shit eating grin on his face like he has the Mets over a barrel. Some people think the Mets should panic and over pay OP that is exactly what the shouldn’t do.

With all due respect to Oliver Perez until there is some other offer from some other team the 3yr/$30 mil offer still stands. Show me where OP has a better offer than that?  No way you give Perez 4yrs or more that $10 mil a year, alright maybe I go $11 mil but no way to I go up in years.

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