The amazing thing about the 2009 Mets is, as bad as they are, they’re down right fascinating. There are Mets stories today dealing with the off the field machinations of the ball club that  make the loss to the Curly W’s in DC last night an after thought. But this much is true after last night, as much as Luis Castillo has vindicated himself this year by staying healthy and producing offensively he has to go and go soon. Castillo’ defense is embarrassingly bad, he has the range of an oak tree and moves to his left less than Fox News. No matter how much is left on his contract he either has to be traded and have the Mets eat some money or just buy him out altogether.

On to the Mets news of the day:

Matt Pignataro of Seven Train To Shea spoke to an unnamed NL West exec who claims the Mets problem is they have too many Latin coaches. Now to me, the exec who said that should be fired as the team that is paying him has more problems that Mets have right now. If the exec said that the Mets minor league coaches were awful instructors and do a poor job of  preparing the farm hands to excel and move up the organization system and make a contribution to the big league team, he’d have my full endorsement. To bring up the ethnicity of the coaches is flat out ignorant. Omar Minaya and his staff has not failed because they are Latinos, it’s more the fact that don’t have a grasp for how to build a team and an inability to teach the proper fundamentals of baseball to the farm hands. What we are seeing now with the recent firings of minor league managers and instructors, is the organization admitting that the system is broke and needs a be repaired. That is a step in the right direction. I don’t care if your from Mars, if you can teach guys to go from first to third  on a hit RF and to hit cut off men you’re my guy.

How great would have been if instead of announcing his new gig at ESPN Bobby Valentine was brought out at $iti Field this weekend as the new manager of the NY Mets? BV’s is great on TV and by joining Baseball Tonight, he just might save that sinking ship but his real talent is turning underachievers into winners and he’s not afraid to call guys out and to remove the malingers who just take up valuable space on a 25 man roster. One of Bobby’s favorite sayings and one I use constantly is “Proper Preparation, Prevents Piss Poor Performance” and if that doesn’t sum up the 2009 Mets nothing does.

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I can not wait until Friday night!!!!!!

Sorry for no posting yesterday but I am preparing for my annual Boy Scout camping trip to Ten-Mile River  and my son decided it would be nice to get new sleeping bags and a frame backpack since he is taking  hiking and wilderness survival  merit badge classes this trip, so it was off to Campmor in Paramus NJ and from there it was on to Coney Island and our first Brooklyn Cyclones game of the season and it looks like if there is any meaning full baseball being played by the Mets organization this summer it will be at Key Span Park.

The Cyclones won their 8^th straight home game last night coming from behind in the bottom of the 9th to win 3-2. Nicholas Santomuro had the game winning hit with a blast off the left field wall. The Cyclones are now 12-2 this season and have a 7 game lead over Aberdeen in the NY-Penn League’ McNamarra Division.  

At some point we Mets fans just have to come to the realization that this is not a very good team and stop screaming for a trade because right now a trade is like a band aid on a gunshot wound ,what should be debated is what direction is the organization headed and what can Omar Minaya do to fix what is a team that is so fundamentally flawed that everyone from the fans, owner, on field personnel, front office and coaches and managers throughout the organization should be embarrassed to wear a Mets uniform.  Its one thing to suck but to suck and not have the grasp of the basic fundamentals of baseball is scandalous. For all the heat Minaya takes for not making deals and for the one’s he makes that don’t work and for the bad contracts he has saddled the organization with (can’t wait for Ollie Perez to come back against the Dodgers next week, glad I’ll be in the woods for that) the lack of baseball intellect on display by the Mets has not gone reported and Omar has not been called out for it.

Omar is like me when I go to IKEA, I can pick out some really great book shelves and a gorgeous entertainment center  but when I get them home , I have no clue how to put them all together.  Minaya has an eye for talent and can find some bargains in the dumpster but he is at a loss at putting a full roster together.

Which is the big problem with the Mets, too many square pegs not fiting in round holes. Too many players out of position and too many players old and over the hill that break down physically and production wise when they are tested on a daily basis.

With his contract extension kicking in after this season Minaya isn’t going of to be fired  but there really needs to be a shake up in the front office maybe bring in a Paul DePodsda type of exec to work with Omar to bring a different perspective in judging talent and maybe better way of constructing a 40 man roster. Something needs to change as the way it’s laid out now ain’t working.