Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Sports and Trivia Archive 2004: Pedro signs 4 year deal with Mets

Boston papers are now saying that free agent Pedro Martinez has signed a 4 year deal with the NY Mets for an estimated 14 million per year. Supposed to be announced by 5pm today.

I'll be looking for Yanks/Mets tickets this summer @ Shea in hopes I get to see Pedro take a high heater to the jerry curl.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20041213&content_id=922000&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp

METS fans deserve better. (j/k)

if its true they just paid about a million dollas a win

thats a beautiful thing-
not cause I hate the Sawx....cause I hate THE METS even more !!

this Cat Minaya is in over his head.
you'll see

have Fun , Willie

Pedro meet your new daddy ,the Atlanta Braves !!! BITCH!

In the immortal words of Eric Cartman...

"GODDAMMIT!"

If we get Sosa, I need a new team

>If we get Sosa, I need a new team

I am 100% with you brother. This is total BS and is only about selling season tickets, not building a winning club. screw em!

LMAO Sloboyle.

where the hell you been in the NBA threads?

gcarlin must have jumped off the washington bridge by now

>>where the hell you been in the NBA threads?<<

I know, I have been lacking. Wino and Mule must enjoy my abscence!j/k The new restaurant I am working in has no TV, so I haven't seen much of my Knicks this year, but I am following it. Crawford can score, but shoots too much. Steph looks good, so does Nazr. Its early yet...

I commented on the Danny Kolb thread, I thought it was a real good deal. Now the Carlos Lee deal, if the Mets trade for Sosa, I might have to follow the Brew Crew!

Overpay-dro

>>gcarlin must have jumped off the washington bridge by now

im callin him now

Why do the mets continually make ridiculous mistakes!!! If its obviouse to the world why are they so incompetent.


go mets (whimper)

Lites I luv you brother...

But never leave me a message like that again..

I just get home and this is what I hear...

WILPON F-CK YOU YOU SCUM BAG>>>
You continue to waste money and break the hearts of us met fans...
Signing this cock fighting cock sucker fastball pitcher
and the end of his career?!!!!!?!...

FUCK YOU AND YOU CAN SHOVE SHEA STADIUM UP
YOU ANAL HIGHWAY...

YOU LOST YOURSELF A FAN ALL THE WAY BACK SINCE I WAS A RUG RAG....SUCK MY HAIRY SWEATING BALLS WILPON...
Im no longer a a met fan...
Thanks for breaking my heart!

Wow. Pedro's really gone?!

Yahooooooo!!!

That means more money to sign "team" players!



(Not that I care about baseball anymore, mind you...)

oh you care, more now than ever.
#6 isn't dreamin of a white christmas he's dreamin of back to back world series championships with these moves

but alas the dream is over, the sox after all have to wait another 86 years

All that is fine, Jerry.

See, nothing you can say stings me anymore. I have moved on.



Happy Holidays there, dude!

admit now, both of you.

you're very worried about the rise of the Brewers.

and you thought i was bad when we sucked.


(((carlos lee)))

>>>But never leave me a message like that again..

sorry bro, robin made me do it

she's still a lil bitter from that yankee bashing shit

>>this Cat Minaya is in over his head.
you'll see



Word. He's acting like he's completely clueless...

Signing to a 4 year deal a 33 year old pitcher with a torn labrum, who has difficulty getting warmed up and pitching well in the early innings, and has lost a few MPH on his fastball makes absolutely no sense. No question that Pedro WAS one of the best ever, but I don't blame the Sox one bit for saying bye-bye. DL for Petey by June?

Minaya is channelling Steve Phillips

BUHAHAHAHAHA...MAN THE METS SUCK!

anyone else think the franchise will go under will this manuever. i cant wait till they demo shea stadium, turn that shit hole back into the garbage dump it was built on.

Calrin, i feel for you my friend. A real MET fan who isnt afraid to express his anger with that duchebag GM they have. WILPON SUCKS!..unbelievable.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{TIM}}}}}}}}}}}}}

>>sorry bro, robin made me do it

>>she's still a lil bitter from that yankee bashing shit

LOL...You know I was joking...
I deserve it for trash talking the yanks in your home..lol

Yes Greg I pissed...Look at Pedro the cock fighting champs ERA from this past season..

And he's only good at fastball pitching and his pitches are slower than ever..

Every year Im postive on how the mets will do..
Then my heart gets crushed...
Now I cant even be postive about them any more..

GO DC EXPOS...

BTW: FRED WILPON YOU DICK.. YOU STILL NEED GOOD SET UP GUYS AND A CLOSER...

NOT TOO MENTION 2 MORE GOOD STARTERS PITCHING....

FRED WILPON GETS MY VOTE FOR COMPLETE DICK HEAD OF THE CENTURY AWARD FOR CREATING A SHITTY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM..

Why would a player who is already crazy rich want to leave a WS Champ, whose fans sell out most every game, who are returning a great lineup and that team has been very good to him for 7 yrs?
I'm not a sox fan, has there been "feuds" between Pedro & the sox?
Is it that he has always dreamed to play for the Mets?
He could really use that extra 2 or 3 mil per yr that the Mets are crazy enough to pay him?
I mean it's not like he just got paid 17 mil for the past 12 months...

looks like the domino effect of this deal may bring Tim Hudson to Atlanta.

wait till this guy sees what a Second Class Organization The Mutts have become.

if hes smart, he'll set up benson with a Ho then be first on line for his wife.
thats about the only fun that can come of this season for him

its all yours, Willie.
Knock yourself out

now repeat after me tim


LETS












GO















YANKEES

Ahhh..these next couple o' years should be hilarious...

Pedro's midget and Anna Benson in the heat o' the Summer...

LOL

i envy any club that has (((Anna Benson))) hanging around.

where can i pick up a Mets hat?

in true Met fashion~

this isnt a done deal yet....is it?

Saw Omar on the tube last night with all his "no comments" and "things you're reading aren't necessarily true"


Heard that he wasn't going to have to take a physical as part of the deal, but I think they actually are making him take one.

The best they can hope for is a failed physical to get out from under this sh*tstorm....

i heard something about pedro's agent doesnt want him to take an mri

does pedro really have a torn labia??????

chumps

Hey~ someone call Skinz and see if he aaiigghhtt

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3215958

{{{{{{{{SKINS}}}}}}}}}}

>>does pedro really have a torn labia??????


THAT...is FUNNY stuff....BWAHAHAHAHAHA

then you got the Sawx- all down on Derek Lowe cause he "parties too much"

so they do the only logical thing- sign David "Work,Church and Home" Wells !!!

btw - you see Pavanos career numbas?
like 53-57

hey sounds like 40 mil to me!!


amazing....

ESPN says Peedro gots to take a physical today, if he passes they sign him tomorrow.

Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail Please fail


PLEASE!

'we are the Mounted Poe Leece."
" If your the police, where are your badges?"
" baahjeez? BAAHJEEZ? we dont got no baahjeez~
WE DOAN NEED TO SHOW YOU ANY STINKIN BAAHJEEZ !!"


hopefully they use the same Quack In A Box that green lighted Moe Vaughn

>>>hopefully they use the same Quack In A Box that green lighted Moe Vaughn

Have no fear the mets don't dissapoint when its making absurd offers.

>>hopefully they use the same Quack In A Box that green lighted Moe Vaughn


The report specifically mentioned the team's NEW medical staff would be examining him...

what zang said

>>ESPN says Pedro gots to take a physical today, if he passes they sign him tomorrow.<<

"..moooooon river....got your whole fist up there, Doc?"

Yo thanks Brick and Schmegg(even though you're dead to me for DK'n me on the Yank/Sox bet)

Outside of of my Grandparents, Jerry passing and THAT type of thing..

this is one of the worst most frustrating days I've ever had.

I've been telling my boys back home that while it's frustrating as hell that the Skins are out of it and it looks like there's no hockey in sight, at least we have pitchers and catchers in a few weeks like everyone else...MARRED!!!!!

Our NATS with their red, white and blue glory giving my hometown fresh life during those long sleepy summer weeks...

wrecked because this bitch can't see the forest for the trees

I hate this fucking fat fucking cunt Linda Cropp like no one else(except Osama and the like)

stupid ghetto wanna be mayor whore is one of the most visceral thinkers I've ever seen..

I wish SARS on her and her fucking douche bag lineage


Cropped Out of the Picture

(((((((By Thomas Boswell)))))))
Wednesday, December 15, 2004; Page D01

Late Tuesday night, in the 11th hour of a marathon D.C. Council meeting, chairman Linda W. Cropp blew to smithereens the deal that MLB thought it had in place with Washington to build a ballpark on the Anacostia waterfront. With that single blow, which leaves baseball no alternatives, the return of major league baseball to the nation's capital is now dead.

The bits of charred ash and shattered fragments that you see falling from the sky are the remnants of the destruction that Cropp wrought. With one amendment to a stadium-funding bill, she demolished the most basic pillar on which the District's agreement with baseball was built. By a 10-3 vote, the council demanded that at least half of the cost of any new stadium be built with private financing, which does not exist, rather than public funding, as stipulated in D.C.'s deal with baseball.


A stadium in search of hypothetical funding, funding that may never be found, is not a stadium at all. It is just a convenient political lie. The entire purpose of baseball's long search for a new home for the Expos was so the sport could sell the team. Who is going to buy a team to play in a stadium that isn't funded and may never be? Nobody. Nobody on earth.

Now, thanks to Cropp, baseball's entire motive for moving the ex-Expos to Washington -- to sell the team -- has been erased. Any solid deal in any town is now better than what Washington is offering -- which is nothing.

The question of whether baseball will now jerk its franchise out of Washington is not a question at all. It is a foregone conclusion. Why would baseball come here? We have pulled a bait-and-switch on the sport. We have broken a deal negotiated by Mayor Anthony A. Williams, the city's highest elected official. And worst of all, Cropp and her council didn't have the guts to stand up and say: "This stadium is too good a deal for baseball and not good enough for the District. You tied poor Mayor Williams in a knot. We're not approving such a lousy ballpark deal. We reject it. Take your team somewhere else."

That's a defensible position. It may be right or wrong. But those are the kind of decisions a city's council should make.

Instead, Cropp and her crowd want to hide their true intentions so they will not have "They Killed Baseball" signs nailed to their political backs. But that's what they did. And that's who they are.

Cropp doesn't want to leave fingerprints. Instead, she wants to leave the impression that she was merely trying to save the District money. Instead, she has now cost it a team and all the benefits of development in Southeast that it might have ignited.

"I do not want to do the public financing of this deal at this level," said Cropp. "I am not sure how baseball will react. But without this piece [of the legislation] I will not vote for this agreement."

Oh, she knows how baseball will react. It'll go ballistic. Will the sport want to come to Washington badly enough to put up with what council member Jack Evans, the point man throughout negotiations, called "a complete violation of our deal"?

In our dreams. The Nationals are gone. That didn't take long, did it? Save those hats with the tilted 'W' on the front. They'll be collectors' items before the week is over. Only a miracle could save Washington's deal with baseball now. Cropp killed it. Whether she did it out of civic conscience, as she claims, or pique, or political aspiration or simply -- and this is a possibility -- a general ignorance of the waters in which she was swimming, is a question for the future.

Right now, the entire baseball-for-Washington scene is in chaos and confusion.

Apparently, hell hath no fury like Cropp when she feels that she has been spurned by baseball. Earlier in the day, she contacted baseball about adding a clause to the stadium bill that would have capped the District's possible damages at $19 million a year if the park was not finished on time. She didn't like the answer she got which was basically, "A deal is a deal."

"I received a letter from baseball that was not a good faith effort," said an annoyed Cropp.


"I don't like a farce being played," said council member Carol Schwartz. "What [baseball told Cropp] was just a regurgitation of what they have said before."

In other words, baseball wouldn't negotiate with Cropp and her council beyond a certain fairly minimal point.


But why should they? To baseball, what Cropp has done is the purest form of business deceit. Let the mayor put an acceptable stadium offer on the table, complete with fully negotiated concessions on both sides, then, at the council level say, "Now let's renegotiate everything."

Baseball feels no obligation whatsoever to make a good faith effort to negotiate with Cropp's council. It already negotiated for two years with cities all over America that wanted the Expos to come to their town. The universal assumption was that the representatives of those cities -- such as Mayor Williams -- had the authority to speak for their towns and already had the backing and understanding of their city councils.

Obviously, Williams didn't. Cropp, who has aspirations to be mayor, has stunned Williams time and again. Last week, when asked if he had Cropp's final and solid support, he shook his head and said, "With her, who knows?"

The first person on the line to Commissioner Bud Selig may be Peter Angelos. As soon as he stops laughing, Angelos can assure the commissioner that, if he drops Washington like a hot potato, the Baltimore Orioles' owner will no longer feel the need to sue MLB.

Did Cropp fully comprehend what she was doing? Or was she simply out of her league? Bet on the former. She was told.

"What our city guaranteed baseball was that the city would build a new stadium -- that we would get it built. That was the essential thing to Major League Baseball. They want to sell the team," said Evans. "Tomorrow morning baseball can't sell that team. No owner would have certainty about a new stadium. That was always the fundamental issue in our deal."

Those who believe in the power of baseball prayer had better get to work. Because baseball would have to be run by saints -- not 30 owners -- to respond to this national insult, a direct spit in the face, by saying: "Okay, let's talk. Let's save the deal. We've already negotiated the big stuff. But now we'll negotiate it again."

Anything is possible. Maybe cows will fly soon, too.

In the end, the District, through its council, has shown that it does not want baseball -- at least not baseball in the real world. Cropp and her council are only comfortable playing fantasy baseball.

"If you wanted to kill the deal, why didn't you do it this morning?" council member Harold Brazil said after 10 p.m. "This is like 30 years of work for naught."

It's easier to do dark deeds late at night.

hey look!

its Skinz


bummer, dude.
Jemima done you in but good

If I was that broad, I wouldn't open any packages with a Long Island postmark in the near future....


Gotta give the boy props for his love of all things DC I guess

Is pedro's ass gone yet?

I mean, shit, did he let the door hit his ass on the way out?

Enough already!

you sure seem interested in pedro's ass there #6, i mean really what are you trying to tell us?

you get snow yet?

ESPN reporting that he passed his physical. News conference set for tomorrow to announce the deal- 4 years @ $53 mil.

Sosa will be gone in the next 7 - 10 days which will free up some well needed money. We will land a few more good free agents(maybe what beltran is waiting for) and we will be loaded. Barring major injuries like last year we should roll. The infield is stacked with Ramirez Garciapara, Walker, and Lee, and Barrett is good behing the plate also. Cory patterson will have a huge breakout year(believe me on this one..he is ready)...30 hr 40 sb. But we still need that other big free agent OF, and i think it will be beltran. And our Staff is tops in the league if they are healthy.

i can't believe they passed him with a torn labia. fockin mets.

Two words, Mets fans...

MO VAUGHN!!!


BA HA HAHAHAHAHA!


Those Dominicans stick together, you know.

keep dreamin' Big B....you guys are finishing behind the Brewers this year for sure!

(((carlos lee)))

>>you sure seem interested in pedro's ass there #6

Ooh, yes, I love pedro's ass, and I'm not afriad to say it.

>>you get snow yet?

Do I love pedro's ass? Of course we have snow. I live in Vermont for christsakes!

"Yo thanks Brick and Schmegg(even though you're dead to me for DK'n me on the Yank/Sox bet) "

-hey brick, apparently you DK'd him too!...check it out. get in line..etc.


"I hate this fucking fat fucking cunt Linda Cropp like no one else(except Osama and the like) "

Whats the over/under skins cap's this broad. No "W" hats for you pal, stay out of JAIL....im terrible sorry too, cause i would have enjoyed the '05 yanks stomping your ass.

too friggin funny, we need to "gather" soon.

I'll take that bet notty...even odds.

did anyone propose a bet?