Spoke with Omar Minaya and he still wants pitching. He also said he recognizes the Mets’ potential holes after this season with the potential departures of Pedro Martinez, Orlando Hernandez, Moises Alou and Carlos Delgado.

Firs t off let’s worry about 2008 right now. If Pedro is healthy and willing to continue his pitching career there is no way he won’t stay a Met in fact he will retire a Met. El Duque won’t be hard to replace and of Alou and  Delgado I say  Mark Texieria and Carl Carwford who are eligible for free agency after this season so there!

Those are holes that will need to be filled, and the prospects supposedly going to Minnesota for Johan Santana could do it either on the field or in a trade.
Never mind the $130-plus million it would take to sign him, but even with Santana, you’ll still have those holes, and a lot less flexibility to fill them.

If your argument is about money then you have no argument as the construction of $iti Field and the ownership of SNY throws the idea of the Skill Sets sitting at the owners meeting in shawls holding a cup is ridiculous. Tell it like it is John , the Skill Sets are shitting out $100 bills.    Right now the BIG THREE in MLB when it comes to dough are the Highlanders, BOSOX and the Metsies.

You’re hearing how the Mets are frontrunners, but that’s because the Yankees and Boston are holding the line. The Twins want the Mets in this so they can get the Red Sox and Yankees bidding again. The Twins are playing the Mets for chumps.

Again the Highlanders and Sawx are here to break balls the Mets are here to make a deal and Omar knows that so that’s why Santanna and Agent Greenberg need to flex their mussel and I think that’s just what they are doing.