Unfortunately, I can’t thank Michael Cuddyer for his year with the Mets, because it wasn’t good. In fact his best day for the Mets was yesterday the day he retired. I don’t say that to be mean, I actually like him a lot more now than I did a few months ago. I went to about 15 Met’s games this year and was always annoyed by his between-inning performance on the Diamondvision (or Citi-vision, whatever they are calling it now) scoreboard. He would do a magic trick or something doopey, and inevitably you would always hear mumbling throughout the crowd about making himself disappear.
I’m sure it was a tough year for him, injuries, watching a 22 year old player take his place in the lineup. But we never heard anything negative about him or from him. It takes a special kind of person to turn away 12.5 million dollars. Because that is what Michael Cuddyer did yesterday. He could have shown up to Port St Lucie in February, given his all and sat on the bench, raking in the 12.5 million in the process, but he decided that wasn’t the right thing to do. Michael Cuddyer knew he was done, didn’t take the easy money and I respect him for that. Thanks Michael!
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