Try telling that to shortstop Wilmer Flores, who signed with the Mets on his 16th birthday. Seven years later, the tears flowed as Flores took the field amid rumors that the Mets and the Brewers were working toward a deal to send him Milwaukee in a package for Carlos Gomez.
One problem: The trade was pending a look at medicals, which ultimately unraveled the entirety of a deal that was "completed" on Twitter before Mets manager Terry Collins over caught wind of it.
"Everybody's got a telephone. Everybody's on it. I don't even know why anybody comes anymore.