Reply #39: Hey man, I AM a Mets fan

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And I'm not complaining about a goddamn thing. We had the 3rd highest payroll in baseball, and didn't even make the playoffs! Collapsed in the most disgraceful late season disaster in baseball history! Hoo-aaah!

As I said upthread, I don't give a shit about the payroll argument. I think it's bullshit. But would you deny that5 it has been the bread and butter argument of the Red Sox Nation lo these many years? Would you deny that Red Sox fans have been whining about the massive Yankee payroll for years and years and years, that you can barely have the Yankees win an early season game without some Red SDox fan griping about bought chaqmpionships and the like? Don't deny it, cuz you know it's true. So what's good for the goose is good for the Bosox.

You got a great team there. But if the payroll argument isn't relevant NOW, then it was never relevant, and shouldn't be relevant in the future. I only hope all the Red Sox Nation embraces this principle, now that they're the ones benefiting from massive payroll disparity. No more griping about payroll, Nation! It makes you look ridiculous.