Even though I’m pump up sky high for Brian Leetch Night and I can’t get enough of Eli, Tom and Gisele I’m am getting mighty itchy for baseball. So here are few stories of interest that I have seen today:

The NY Times has a piece on Johan Santana’s hometown in Venezuela. This is the first story I’ve read about Venezuela that didn’t mention a crazy dictator or Joe Kennedy pimping fuel oil for the poor. Some folks like to break Omar’s balls on brining in Latin players well I’ll say this the Latin players take care of their own people far better than American players.

LaVelle E. Neal III (a/k/a LEN3 not to be confused with the outstanding garage band Len Price3 ) is the man in the know in the Twin cities when it comes to Johan Santana info but in his blog yesterday all he has was the regurgitated bullshit we’ve heard all winter. It may be time for Santana and his agent to step up and twist some arms in Twinkie land. If Santana wants to come to Flushing, now is the time to let it known to Bill Smith and Montgomery Pohlad  to either “pay me or trade me” I give Santana high marks for not going this route sooner but for my sanity I need some closure here. Same thing goes for the Mets, I’m sure Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra, Kevin Mulvey Carlos Comez, and Fernando Martinez are sick and tired of hearing their names tossed around like fictional characters and they too deserve to know where they will spending the month of March. If Omar needs to the submit to the Twins a final offer as much as I want and covet Johan Santana to be the ace of the Mets staff , you can’t have one guy hold up the progress of a whole organization. Shit or get off the pot everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love D-Wright I really do he‘s so polite:

{Hopefully, all of us are better than last year,” he said. “Just because we haven’t made any changes, doesn’t mean that we aren’t going to come in and be better players individually. I think we need to improve as a team. The answer isn’t free agency; the answer isn’t making these big trades. It’s looking inside.”}

Here is what Wright really means “Talent gets you so far in this game, at some point a pair of brass balls is needed and someone has to get in other guys faces and I think it’s my time to do that”

Some readers of this site and some other sites I visit have taken me to task as I feel right now the Mets are not a play off team. I will stick with that assumption unless of course Omar obtains the lefty out of Minnesota.  The folks who take issue with my observation keep giving me the line about talent and guys are going to step up and players like Carlos Delgado will be better and Moises Alou will piss on everyone’s hands and Mike Pelfrey will win 20 games and the Cy Young Award and on and on but no one, not one detractor has mentioned to me who on this team grew a set of balls to put the team not only on his back but to call out the fakers and posers who spit the bit down the stretch last year. Am I still bitter about last years collapse? YOU BET YOUR SWEET ASS I AM. D Wright can carry this team on the field but someone has to grab that clubhouse with some fire. The manager won’t do it’s not his style and I’m not faulting him for it but with too many laid back types on the team you need a shit stirrer you need the baseball equivalent of Sean Avery on the Mets.  That’s why it may just be symbolic and not mean a lot but if I were the Mets I would named D-Wright the captain of the team and make it known that it is HIS TEAM.      

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