Silly, Silly Mets

I despise the Yankees, but the Mets come a close second. Not only because they crushed my boyhood heart in 1986, but because they are from New York. And if we know anything, New York City is an evil place when it comes to sports teams.

So reading this piece at MLB Trade Rumors about the Mets likely eating $12M to jettison Oliver Perez made me laugh. Not only because it's $12M the Mets can't afford, but because there is this nugget at the piece's end about what Jon Heyman said when the contract was signed.

The Mets had to get Oliver Perez back. They weren't comfortable with their main fallback option, which was [Randy] Wolf.

You know where this is going, right?

Oliver Perez

2009-2010: 3-9, 21 GS, 112.1 IP, 6.81 ERA, 100W, 99K, ERA+ 59, 1.985 WHIP

Randy Wolf

2009-2010: 24-19, 68 GS, 430 IP, 3.70 ERA, 145W, 302K, ERA+ 107, 1.247 WHIP

Say what you will about Madoff and the Wilpons sinking the Mets, but it's personnel decisions like this one that put the Mets in the ground.