Long Term Greedy

As I read John Harper's piece about the Mets in today's Daily News (alternate title: "Spend, Baby, Spend"), it struck me that articles like this are exactly why New York teams feel they cannot stand pat during the offseason.Actual title: "After dismal 2009, New York Mets must make splash with free agents Matt Holiday and John Lackey."Certainly, there are a lot of people who feel this way. In a sense I'm one of them; if the Mets feel they can acquire a superlative player, I want them to do what's necessary to sign that player every time.To Omar Minaya's credit, when it came to Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez, Billy Wagner, Francisco Rodriguez, and Johan Santana, he did that.Last offseason there were two more superlative players available, C.C. Sabathia and Mark Teixeira. Either one of those guys would have helped the Mets immensely, but they made a run at neither of them. Beyond those two, in A.J. Burnett they let a proven version of Oliver Pere...