Hell, no!

Not just no, but “HELL, NO!“

“As I’ve said before, he’s one of the free agents in the market, and we’re looking at all free agents,” Minaya said about A-Rod, whose private plane flew from Miami to the Bahamas on Sunday…

Minaya continues to reaffirm his pleasure with David Wright and Jose Reyes, but won’t offer any guarantees that a position switch to accommodate A-Rod is not viable.

“We don’t need to fill third base,” Minaya said yesterday. “I’m telling you, today we’re very happy with David Wright at third base.”

I understand the need to do due diligence and investigate every free agent on the market, but if the Mets sign A-Rod, I’m done.

D.O.N.E.

While his offensive prowess is without equal — in the regular season at least — he’s the kind of over-priced, “Me, first” player that doomed the Mets in the Nineties and would be a cancer on a team that needs to head-check after last season’s collapse.

I don’t care if we could trade Reyes for Johan Santana and A-Rod moved back to shortstop. I don’t care if he’s willing to play second base. I don’t care if he took a paycut; I don’t want him in Queens and if they do sign him, it’s the end of my 25-year run as a Mets fan and I’m going back to the Yankees.

Read and post comments |
Send to a friend

Written by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is the Chief Content Officer for LibraryPass, and former publisher & marketing director for Writer’s Digest. Previously, he was also project lead for the Panorama Project; director, content strategy & audience development for Library Journal & School Library Journal; and founding director of programming & business development for the original Digital Book World.