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Delgado rumored to have pulled out of signing with Baltimore after Pedro announced, saying he was very impressed with Minaya and Randolph. This interests me. One thing I wrote on NYfansties.com was that Pedro enhances the team and Minaya's credibility and makes more moves likely -- I mean we couldn't even say the word "Beltran" without people giggling last week, now it's still totally unlikely that we get him, but people can't dismiss the idea we go hard after him, and that he doesn't just go "The Mets, yeah right."

If Omar makes us good short term without trading Reyes or Wright and any high prospects or blocking them with ludicrous deals, I'll just be so fucking pumped for the first time since we took 21 out of 24 to gain 9 games on the Braves to move within 3 back in the games surrounding 9/11 (of course Blownitez ended that hope by coughing up a lead at Turner Field -- the worst of all seeing as how we were riding the emotion of a game we won two weeks earlier on the eighth inning blast by Piazza against the Braves in the first game in NY by any team after 9/11) I was at the game , the Friday 10 days after 9/11. I don't think any Met or Braves fan didn't hug or cry after Piazza hit that dinger. I think we all were proud to be part of 45,000 people who gave the finger to terrorism and packed ourselves into a totally easy target for anyone who wanted to take us out, and we were proud as hell of both teams for going out and playing like it was a pennant race -- best moment in Mets history, for my money -- anyway, I digress, but it was Piazza's best moment, and I am glad it was him. Braves fans, and problaby the Braves were never so ahppy to see a ball leave the aprk..

Anyway, Omar was just on Mike and the Mad Dog (our local big kahunas of talk radio, this was their 15h aniversary show) and I watched the simulcast on Al Yankazeera, and dude, compared to how Duquette stammered throught the post-Kazmir interviews, I totally was like Jerry Stiller in Zoolander going "now that's what I am talking about".

He talked about 1986 and how every Met fan should look to that and remember that NY is at its heart an NL town, and is all about winning and that we're going to do our best over the next few years to give reasons to be proud to be Mets fans again.

I really just like having a badass man from Queens and the king of the DR as GM -- we are going to rule the signing of non-drafted DR FAs thanks to Omar and Pedro.

BTW, please sign Orlando Cabrera -- Omar loves him from MTL, and he is the only player I could see my boy Reyes getting traded to make room for.