And to you guys who argued about Bush and and all that, give it a freakin rest. If you want to talk about politics, dont do it on MetsBlog. Go on BushBlog or ObamaBlog or heck, even PalinBlog.

Don’t worry about Manny anyway,…it is pretty clear the Mets are not going to sign him this off season unless the Giants and Dodgers cave and Manny becomes a 1 year bargain. For that, they have to wait anyway.

I don’t think we are far appart on this and Iguess I am not defending the strategy as much as explaining it.

I have to think that these other small holes such as utility infielders and LHP for the pen that he does have his feelers out there for because your right, there is no reason that we can’t give out a 1.2 million deal now or whatever it takes to get a utility IF (although I am not entirely sure if the organization plans on bringing in another lefty or just go with the 1 specialist and Green to try and root out some grounders. If they bring in a lefty starter they might just go with Feliciano. Yikes! Ohman I doubt they are going to spend on, as nice as he would be to have).

The good news is, the piddly hole fillers you are talking about are usually the last people to sign in the off season anyway, so they will likely be available when we have everything else straightened out anyway.

We need a utility infielder and another lefty bullpen guy, so can’t we be working on them as well? Hairston is still out there and would be a perfect fit. Ohman still hasn’t signed anywhere and I don’t want to miss out on him because we are in a staring contest with Lowe/Boras. As far as the 5th starter and LF situation goes, I can totally see waiting to see what happens, because those things depend on what happens with Lowe, but the other two do not. We need those things no matter who we get for the rotation, and the cost won’t change no matter who we slot in there, so don’t miss out on the Bradford we need and get stuck with another Schoenweis! Can’t we at least learn from our past mistakes? Is that too much to ask?

Using this logic I’m going to try something.

It is virtually impossible for the Mets to sign Manny Ramirez.
It is virtually impossible for either the Mets to trade Luis Castillo or Castillo to be a decent ball player this year.
It is Virtually impossible that Jonathan Niese is the next Tom Seaver.
It is Virtually impossible for Murphy and Tatis continue their success they had last year.
It is Virtually impossible that Carlos Delgado is not going to fall back to his early 2008 self.
AND FINALLY
It is Virtually Impossible that the NY Mets become a dynasty starting this year.

Hopefully all the past virtually impossibles are enough to make the majority of this list come true

Yes it would make more sense to work on all positions that need to be filled at one time so as not to miss out on the market. The problem is budgetary. It is pretty clear that Minaya is on a short leash on how much he can spend this off season. Let’s say he has 25 million left to spend this off season. If he signs an outfielder like, say, Dunn now for 12 million a year, he only has 13 million left for the rest of the positions that he has to fill. That is why he is going to wait until he has his most important position filled (namely SP) until he works on other upgrades.

I do have to admitt this makes for a very boring off season though.