Re: Wow, Mets dump Benson and his salary

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:43:09 GMT, RUL ® <raving@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:02:27 -0500, headbanger11421@xxxxxxxxx (Chris
>®) wrote:
>
>>>I think you're in the minority view on this
>>>one. Most things I've read and my own
>>>opinion is that once again Omar has
>>>received less than he gave up. (Other
>>>examples include the Seo deal and the
>>>Cameron deal).
>>
>>While I think Julio has "Mel Rojas" written all over him, there are some
>>positives to this deal. Benson is overpaid and injury prone, and Minaya
>>successfully freed himself from that burdensome contract and now has the
>>financial flexibility to invest it elsewhere to greater effect.
>
>Do we really want to give him too much credit for "freeing himself"
>from a ridiculous contract that he negotiated in the first place?

No he didn't.

>All he's really done here is to acknowledge a mistake, and unless the
>move is freeing up money for some other as yet unspecified purpose,
>to compound it with yet another one.

Ready to acknowledge your mistake that Minaya did not trade for
Benson?

.

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