Omar needs to say adios.

Look, it’s not a cardinal sin to build a team around veterans, but you have to have a good mix so that you’re not relying on guys in the sunsets of their careers to carry the team. You also can’t bet the farm on guys that spend 90% of their time on the DL.

AAA NOLA is crap right now. It’s loaded with a bunch of journeymen that couldn’t do the job in AAA or in MLB who are not going to help this team at all. There’s a bunch of guys in A and AA that may help in 2009 and on, but this team can’t win the way it’s built right now. David Wright is the youngest guy on the team, and he’s the one that’s trying to set an example for the rest of the team. It’s not just sad, it’s pitiful. Why don’t we have even just one younger guy than Wright bringing energy to this team? That’s right, we traded them away! Sure we got Church, Schneider, and Santana for Gómez and Milledge, but was it really worth it to trade away some young guys with spark to get a couple of middle-of-the-road guys and a pitcher that may end up being at the start of the winddown of his career (remember Frank Viola?)? Especially when there’s no one of that sort to replace them? How can you rely on Moises Alou in LF without a backup plan? Endy Chávez is one of the most exciting outfielders in baseball, but he can’t hit worth a lick. He’s better than he was when the Expos tried to make him into a slugger, but he’s still barely adequate offensively for a position that is historically an offensive position.

How can anyone in their right mind give Luis Castillo a four-year contract, DFA a young guy with a healthy body and a good bat like Gotay, and rely on Damion Easley, who’s about 40, and Marlon Anderson (who plays 2B about as well as Víctor Díaz did) as a backup at 2B? What’s next, are we going to call up Anderson Hernández to show us yet again that he’s all glove and no bat?

Why was El Duque re-signed? He is done. He has been done since he was in the White Sox bullpen. His only value at this point is as a long-man in the bullpen because he can’t take pitching more than once in a while.

Omar has utterly destroyed this team’s chances of winning a playoff spot until 2010 when some of these old guys will be gone and some of the AA talent makes its way up.

That and consistant pitching puts this team back in the playoffs.

“In fact, players such Martinez actually are harmful to the Mets in a way, and ultimately speak poorly of GM Omar Minaya’s soon-to-be-fleeting tenure”

$100 says if Pedro was healthy and pitching, Rubin wouldn’t be saying this. ANY unhealthy player hurts a team. The real problem is guys like Delgado who really don’t give a damn about losing and are too arrogant to talk to the media or be a clubhouse leader (don’t have to be ra-ra to be one. Jeter isn’t).

Let’s not write Omar’s obituary before he’s dead (I’m sure Rubin already has it written up). Let’s not forget where this team was before him. The Mets now have more talent in their starting lineup than the 2003 and 2004 Mets combined had. It would be great it Omar could add a reliever or trade Delgado for a real 1B, but this is real life; not MVP baseball. He has to acquire guys from free agency (which has been thin as of late) or trade (which he did. The farm system is relatively weak with most of the talent in AA and below) or the draft (they’ve mostly had low picks and their compliance with not overpaying the slot is what has hurt them. The cheap Wilpons deserve blame for that).

What Rubin is doing here is attempting to save Willie by making a scapegoat out of Omar. Want to blame everyone (as the title of your article suggests)? Then do it. Don’t throw Omar under the bus and no one else. Blaming everyone means blaming everyone, not blaming Omar instead of Willie.