Is this really happening?

Baseball is a results business.

So is just about every other business, incidentally. I think the term “results business” might even be redundant. Is there any business that’s not a results business? Like can I find a paying job somewhere where my boss won’t care about my performance or the bottom line, but about how much fun I have or how much I learn from the experience?

For what it’s worth, if you Google “is not a results business” — in quotes like that — you only get five results, and they’re all about soccer.

But that’s not the point. What I’m trying to say is that I should temper my enthusiasm, since the Mets’ new front office hasn’t won anything yet. Hell, as a team, Sandy Alderson, J.P. Ricciardi and Paul DePodesta haven’t even done anything yet outside of letting Hisanori Takahashi walk.

Still, after six seasons of Omar Minaya — and Steve Phillips and Jim Duquette before him — it’s hard not to get excited for a front office that appears primed to evaluate players objectively and work to build a sustainable winner from within. These are the things I’ve been bleating about since I started writing for SNY.tv in 2006.

And now, it seems, it’s really happening. Is this really happening?

I’m getting ahead of myself. And despite all my attempts at rationality, the perpetual reminders here that the Mets are not cursed or jinxed or otherwise damned mostly aim to quiet my own ingrained Mets-fan dread. This must go wrong. Right?

I know that’s not true. I know that, in the right hands, it shouldn’t be too difficult to create a regular winner on a $130 million payroll.

But, you know, results business and all. So I will proceed with cautious optimism.

7 thoughts on “Is this really happening?”

I see alot of this type of feeling, like we havent won anything yet, and that is true. But at the same time you have every right to get excited abouyt whats happening now.

For year people have been killing the Wilpons for hiring guys like Omar and Tony B to run the show. Well now it appears they have gone out and stocked the front office with the best available talent. We knew this offseason was really all about rebuilding the front office and the team structure and all that, and as far as that goes, which is step one, the Mets have basically hit a home run here. IMO its OK to get excited about that because its an awesome step one.

Its just like the FA period for Players. If the Mets opened the coffers for Carl Crawford, or somehow obtained Felix Hernandez etc, we’d all be excited and rightfully so, even though though those players would have yet to produce any results.

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