Decade in Review: Five Lessons Learned

As the decade gasps out a few final breaths, presented here are five lessons learned these past 10 years.Some thoughts on the aughts, if you will, in no particular order...1. You can't buy a winnerAt least if you're not the Yankees, who can buy anything.But if Mets fans learned one thing this decade it's that dollars don't equal titles.I don't have the figures in front of me, but chances are excellent that the Mets spent more money on player contracts this decade than any other team in the National League. I'd wager good money that we spent more than any team other than the Yankees and Red Sox, the latter of whom we may very well have outspent.What do we have to show for it? One World Series run, one dominant regular season/crushing playoff loss, and eight other seasons that ran the gamut from encouraging (2005) to disappointing (2001, 2008), humiliating (2007) and completely unwatchable (2002-2004, 2009).For all the people screaming their heads off this offs...