OK count me in on the Bring John Lackey To The Mets club. If 5yr/$80-85 mil gets him here to be it.

$20 bucks a month for NEWSDAY online? Who the hell is running the show over there, Jimmy Dolan? What a MA-ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

Matt Pignataro of Seven Train to Shea says Josh Johnson could be on the block in So Florida. If the Mets could pry Johnson from Miami and sign Lackey to go with Johan, well I’d let Jeffey Skill Set ride on the Mets Bloggers float at the parade.

Another chapter of my childhood is closed with the word today of the death of Soupy Sales. For you youngins’ Sales had a kids afternoon show on Ch 5 here in NY that feature comedy, puppets and cartoons that was goofy enough to keep kids entertained and over the top enough for adults to laugh at as well. Now I got to go, I need to find my 45 of Do The Mouse!.

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!!!!!!