As of 11:32 PM last night CraigF officially resigned as the General Manager for the 2019 first place finishing New York Mets.
In his initial statement Craig said "I'm sorry to say, but if the last week is any indication, I'm not going to have the free time to be active on here with my current classload. I'll try to stop in at some point." But there is a bit of controversy over his resignation as he is leaving the Mets in a deficit as they are projected to lose $104,089,592 in the 2020 season.
BLM head commissioner Nwuhockey was quick to say something over his departure saying "...you are resigning leaving your team (104) million over budget. That is the biggest d*** move I have ever seen. Its absolute bulls*** that you are gonna pull that crap leaving that team financially ruined for a brand new GM to have to clean up." In my honest opinion it was pretty irresponsible for Craig to even go so far over the teams budget in the first place and should've been held responsible more when he was putting the Mets over budget in the first place such as at the beginning of 2019 when he gave DH Matt Olson a 55 Million 7 year contract and SP Nate Karns a 30 Million 5 year contract which accounts for just about 35% of the Mets actual payroll.
Now in response to this controversy Nwuhockey has announced a new Free Agency rule to stop teams from going into major debt. The new rule states "As commissioner I (Nwuhockey) have the right to deny you a free agent signing if I feel that it puts your team's finances at risk. I do not care how much cash you have. If it possibly cripples you financially I will very nicely tell you no." I think this rule is for the best as in foresight you have to do what's best for the future GMs of BLM and will keep GMs now responsible for there actions.
The response has been kind've against the rule as Bears was the first to react saying "Why don't you let the GM's of this league do what they feel is best for their teams, let them deal w/the consequences(good or bad), and stop babysitting them? If they want to ruin their team, what is that any of your business?" MGM came in defense of the new rule with a valid point saying "The major issue that you seem to be overlooking is that NWU, as a commissioner, needs to make sure that a team stays viable for the next GM to take over in the case a GM resigns. Putting a team in such a financial hole makes a team less attractive to take on for a future GM, makes them far more difficult to manage and stay financially viable, and will leave that team without a GM. This certainly then becomes the business of the commissioner trying to keep all teams filled and finding new GMs to take over teams." With MGM's point in mind it is obvious that this rule is whats best for BLM and in my opinion needs to be put in place otherwise you will be risking teams looking way too unappealing for future GMs.
In the end I think this controversy had a positive overall result as now GMs cannot be irresponsible with their budgets and payrolls thinking that their cash will just get them out of any trouble.
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