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By Charlie Hangley
The time has finally arrived. The ideal candidate, the object of the savvy Mets fan’s affection will be free to reciprocate in a matter of three weeks. Heck, he’s already free to negotiate with whoever he wants right now. David Stearns will finally have his Suds City chains broken and he will, if he so chooses, become the President of Baseball Operations for the team in his hometown and for which he grew up rooting. This would dovetail fairly nicely with the Mets’ owner, who may – or may not – have had a similar, if earlier, youthful fan experience. If it happens – this is the Mets after all; this franchise has an uncanny ability to screw up a one-car funeral – it would seem a marriage made in heaven.
On the surface, it would seem ideal from Stearns’s end: coming from the ultimate small-market team, Bud Selig’s former franchise and the poster child for big league revenue sharing to the ultimate overdog city, the Center of the Universe, whose owner has seemingly unlimited financial resources and has shown a propensity to spit on the very idea of the luxury tax, would definitely seem appealing. There is also the relatively simplistic idea that since Stearns achieved a great measure of success while being hamstrung by budgetary restrictions in Milwaukee, imagine what he could do with free rein to spend beaucoup bucks in New York.
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