getting dissed by your own former farm hand

Jason Bay's silence is deafening. Every Met fan's ears should be ringing with disgust that this guy is, as of yet, undecided as to whether he should join the best second fiddle organization in all of baseball. Don't tell me he is afraid of losing, he was with Pittsburgh for crying out loud! Yeah there's the potential for losing in New York, but at least you lose under the second brightest lights in MLB. C'mon Jason, don't tell me the organization is in disarray!

I understand the rep the organization has gotten around the majors is one of ineptitude- medicallly(sending players cross-country only to put them on the disabled list and letting days pass by without making a decision as to whether certain players should be on the DL or not), financially(The Wilpons alleged involvement in the Madoff debacle), public relations-wise (i.e. Minaya's stuttering, press conference implosions, and ill-handled manager firings), stadium naming rights-wise (i.e. CitiBank's defensive declaration that no gov't bailout money was used in the 400 million $ deal for signage), and stadium design-wise (i.e. That Citi Field's dimension don't accomodate their best players and that the stadium does not address Mets history). Every step we take is scrutinized like the bullied skinny kid in high school, we'll never be popular...

So can we blame Bay? Probably not, he was already a Met- even if it was just as a farm hand. So he knows the deal, right? It 's like someone who got out of a bad marriage and the abusive ex comes back begging. You start wondering if this person has the Stockholm Syndrome if they acquiesce. Looks as if we're his last resort or, dare I say, "2nd fiddle" (read in the voice of Mike Myers as Dr. Evil)

Prediction: 2010 will be Omar Minaya's swan song, he's completely lost his swagger. Remember when he made it on the cover of SI? The man could do no wrong, now he can't make it on the cover of a milk carton! Slowly things have been coming apart for him and, subsequently, for the Mets. The highlight of Summer 2010 in
Queens will be LeBron and World Cup Soccer. Sorry Mr. Met.