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First, I've got to say Omar Minaya has tried to pick the right players for the Mets, but they cannot seem to deliver. He's managed to put in place the right players and a pretty solid rotation together. As a Yankee fan, I have to say that really the Mets are making the same mistakes that have doomed the Yankees for the past nine years, throwing money at the team hoping to put a winning team out on the field. The reality is that having one or two franchise players is not enough to produce a winning franchise in baseball. The Yankees and Mets seem to both go out and try to fill their line ups with all-stars who have years of great statistical success but without the most important statistical figure of world championships in their column.

The remedy for the Mets and the Yankees is more home cooking, do what the Red Sox have done, go to your farm system build up these young guys and make them fire your team up. The Yankees seem to be catching up to it now but its taken them 9 years to even start doing it. The Mets are far behind, if I were running the Mets I'd look into trading David Wright who has the most value and isn't performing as he should. He hasn't shown he can be the leader the Mets desperately need right now so go out there trade him and get young arms, and a young bat. The Mets have the second biggest payroll in baseball and it comes with minimal success. They've got to start adapting to the times and making players aware that whoever isn't delivering is going to lose their jobs to someone that is going to deliver. Make these 100$ dollar contract create not statistical numbers but great leadership and chemistry in your teams. MLB isn't the National Football League where you can have WR with a strong attitude walking around ruining team chemistry because that doesn't win you World Series, its young arms, good team chemistry and determination. These big contract guys want to win but they've already won with a big contract, so success as a world champion is only a bragging right to add to their belt and not a passion of success and dream to accomplish as it is for these young guys. There are a lot of veterans that want to win but give them a team to build up with these young guys in your farm system.

As for the Mets, they've got a long way to go if they ruin this season it could cause some serious shake up in their front office, and roster. If that were to happen, the only person I would say is safe is Reyes but, if he has to go then he has to go, baseball teams are composed for one purpose and that's winning championships let's hope the Mets prove their contenders and not pretenders this year. If the Mets make it to the World Series then I hope it's against my beloved Yankees.

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