The Mets should charge Bor-ass admission into Citi.

The Mets brain-trust met with Uber-agent Scott Boras yesterday, apparently to talk about "all of his clients"... Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez, and yes, even Manny Ramirez....

I can't stand this guy Boras... he is almost single-handedly responsible for why it's damn near impossible to take your family to a ballgame without taking out a 2nd mortgage on your house. That being said, he certainly does well by his clients, so I guess that makes him good at his job. Yay for him and his 10% cut... no one ever talks about it, but his personal worth must be well north of $100 Mil...

Think about it; with A-Rod alone, he's put together 2 $200 million plus contracts. Assuming a pure 10%, that's $40 mil right there. I'm sure it's not as simple as that, but still.... he's not hurting for cash...

Mr. Boras (I keep wanting to call him Borat) has developed a technique, if you will, of letting teams make an offer, and then making them sit there while he waits to see what else comes up. He pulls this especially when he gets an offer he doesn't like. You see, he and Derek Lowe somehow think that as a starting pitcher, he is now worth a 5-6 year long deal in the area of $90-100 mil. That's Barry Zito money... and it would be a Barry Zito type of deal... take a decent, not great, but decent pitcher, get him all the money in the world, and sit back and watch that player not give a shit about his job anymore. Just look at what happened with Barry Zito.

The Mets offered a 3 year deal for abut $36 mil. Which is a perfect offer, one that Lowe should be pouncing on. 

At best, Lowe is a "decent" pitcher that might get them 15 wins. More likely scenario is that it is less than 15. If you look at the numbers, they tell a tale of, well, a 35 year old pitcher. Over the past 5 years, he's tallied a 68-60 record, with about (rough calculation) a 3.70 ERA, a K/9 of about 5.50-6. He's only won more than 15 games once in the past 5 years, and that was with a lofty total of 16 wins. 

Just because he is the best of what's left doesn't make him worth the money that Boras is trying to sucker teams into offering... 

As for the others?  Oliver Perez should show a little appreciation that the Mets coached him  through his challenges getting past the 6th inning without imploding. I guess he can go elsewhere, pay Bor-ass his cut, fall apart (again), and then end his career rich but worthless. I for one cannot wait to see him leave...

Manny? The Mets have enough issues keeping focused. I love Manny. He definitely entertains. But you'll have Manny being Manny in NY, so you know he's gonna feel like he has to give you the "Superstar, Super-sized" version of Manny, while the Mets are being the Mets, which means they will be torturing their fans over the course of the season (especially in September, but we will not speak of that now). Put those 2 things together, and a giant sinkhole will open up beneath the new "Shea" stadium (I will never call it "Citi" Field)  He is a head case diva that the Mets can't afford if they are serious. 

Please, Manny, Mr. Boras, I beg of you.... go talk to the Phillies....