{"id":1379,"date":"2011-06-28T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:21:56","slug":"jose-reyes-an-easy-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/06\/28\/jose-reyes-an-easy-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Reyes: An Easy Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This was originally a comment to a Mets Police<\/a> post about ripping the Trade Reyes bandaid off, but I decided it deserved a post of it’s own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really a simple decision.\u00a0 Franchise players like Jose Reyes are very valuable, and it’d be especially silly to let him get away for anything but an absolute steal of a package, and even then I’d be reluctant.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn’t fantasy baseball; I, and other fans, develop emotional attachment to players and there is value and revenue in that.<\/p>\n

Sign Reyes, and you keep a franchise player that the fanbase loves and will define and promote\u00a0your franchise for, and this isn\u2019t an exaggeration, 60+ years. \u00a0Keep one of the best players in the game at a premium position of which there is nothing close available on the market or in the minors. Finish the season at or above .500, regardless of if they can make a playoff push or not.\u00a0\u00a0 Have people believing 2012 will be better, that we\u2019re already into year two of the \u2018rebuilding\u2019 process and things are good and people are buying season tickets.\u00a0 The Mets (not the Wilpons) problem\u00a0is not so much debt is it trying to get the revenue stream back above the level of what a competitive payroll is.\u00a0 To do this they have to keep people interested in the Mets and coming to the park.\u00a0 Who’s more interesting than Jose Reyes right now?<\/p>\n

Or you can trade him or let him walk away,\u00a0and\u00a0finish below .500.\u00a0 Show people that this is year one of the demolition process before rebuilding starts. Watch no one pay any attention to the Mets all offseason, and no one buy season tickets, or renew season tickets. \u00a02.5million fans this year becomes 1.5million fans next year, and in 2013, and in 2014.. prices come down because no one\u2019s going, revenue drops as a result, less demand on advertising space drops revenue there as well.\u00a0 SNY becomes the Food Network; sure you\u2019ll flip it on once in a while and see what\u2019s cookin\u2019, but it\u2019s not worth DVRing. \u00a0In an age when it\u2019s so very very easy to watch any team in the league, and with the Mets unwatchable, many fans start half-following the Giants or wherever Reyes ends up playing.\u00a0 If MLB.TV existed when the Mets traded Seaver, how many Mets\u00a0fans do you think would’ve purchased it to watch him pitch? \u00a0In 2013 the Mets sell out the Giants series at Citi with the stands awash of really faded Black Mets 7 shirts. The next series against the Phillies is empty, no one wants to see two bad teams play.\u00a0 Citi Field feels empty without #7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was originally a comment to a Mets Police post about ripping the Trade Reyes bandaid off, but I decided it deserved a post of it’s own.\u00a0 It\u2019s really a simple decision.\u00a0 Franchise players like Jose Reyes are very valuable, and it’d be especially silly to let him get away for anything but an absolute … <\/p>\n

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