Oh, well…as predicted, Jose Reyes has signed with the Miami Marlins.
As a Mets fan, I’m sorry to see him go, but I can’t really blame him. The team’s financial woes would have made it difficult for them to re-sign him and getting into a bidding war was out of the question. This was his one chance for a big free agent score, and he would be foolish not to take it. No way was he going to give the Mets a home team discount.
Just one word of warning to Fish Fans: At least one time during the season, Jose will romp around second base, grab his hamstring and be out of the lineup for a month.
Of course, the Miami Marlins courted him like the prettiest girl at the prom. The team’s owner even went to a hotel suite where Jose was staying after midnight wearing a jersey with Reyes’s name on the back, which in the post-Sandusky-era is kind of creepy. Did he think he was recruiting for Penn State?
Now, Jose gets to wear those icky Miami Vice-era uniforms and we Met fans are left with a team that will finish last in 2012.
And workers throughout the country are left to wonder why we can’t be free agents.
