Some notes from yesterday.

According to Mets beat writer Adam Rubin who was in the clubhouse yesterday he and some other people saw sheets in the Mets clubhouse that said the Mets needed to go 62-38 to finish out the season and win 97 games and they in all probability would win the division and make the playoffs. On said sheet said little quips like "We b4 I", "team above self" and lastly "we have time."

1. This team isn't making the playoffs, nor are they coming any where close to winning 97 games.
Omar Minaya keeps saying this team "is able to make the playoffs." Well, Omar they aren't. Because of his free agent and trade transactions they won't make the playoffs. In today's game they don't rely on aging old veterans through free agency or trades. Teams these days rely on their farm system and developing their own home grown players. Bob Dylan once wrote a song called "The time they are a' changin'" and it's obvious Omar Minaya, like Ron Burgundy never heard this song. It's apparent the times have passed Minaya and he has to change with it. Hopefully the draft that just past is clear that the Mets aren't going to keep going for the high priced free agents year after year and finally produce a decent position prospect under Omar Minaya.

And what the hell is "We b4 I?" Seriously, are the Mets doing this for the players that can barely speak or read the English language. It's a good idea if you ask me, too bad this clubhouse is full of me first guys and it's starting with the first basemen who doesn't give a fig in Carlos Delgado. This man personifies "the I don't give a shit" attitude that has been plaguing the Mets since last year. He refuses to get his uniform dirty and he got old really fast, does anyone else think that Delgado was on the 'roids? I have no evidence, but in this baseball day and age your guilty till you can prove your innocence. I cannot get over this "we b4 I" crap though, does Willie Randolph really need to use the Lou Holtz rah rah method on the Mets? Next Willie should just author a Mets fight song next week too.

These Mets aren't going anywhere this year until the rank of the 2007 collapse is gone and by that I mean they need to get rid of players that were apart of it. Are they sick of the booing? I would be too if I played like Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran day in and day out. Carlos Beltran knew what he was getting into when he inked that contract back in 2005, oh wait....he didn't want to sign with the Mets in the first place...I would imagine none of this would have happened if he signed with the Yankees like he really wanted to...where he could hang back and let Jeter and Alex Rodriguez take all of the heat from the press. We, the fans think these two guys are the prima donnas of the Mets. They rarely get dirty and they really don't hustle every game. There is a reason why New York sports fans love athletes like Wayne Chrebet, Joe Morris, Lenny Dykstra, Wally Backman and countless others. Because they always played hard, they got down and dirty and although they weren't the most talented, but they left their heart and soul out on the ball field. As a fan of both the Mets and Giants, I love players like Ryan Church, Rich Seubert and David Diehl. They don't have all the God given ability that guys like Carlos Beltran or a Jeremy Shockey, but they play their hearts out.

In the words of Forrest Gump "that's all I have to say...about that"