I can take the paper bag off my head!!!

It is cool again to be a Met fan: the Amazins won the Santana Sweepstakes! Now instead of counting down the days until the Mets hired their next white general manger, I can wait for the explosion in the Bronx when Hammerin’ Hank Steinberger…brenner… whatever… wallops Brain Cashman for not wanting to pay Johan Santana. Believe me— now more than ever, Cashman has staked his legacy (job) on the success of his young guns. And this trade certainly dissipates my dislike of Omar Minaya. I still don’t like the Lastings Millidege deal from earlier in the offseason, or the lack of top-flight prospects in the Mets farm system (who the Twins are now stuck with, ha!), but at least for 2008 the Mets are relevant again.