METS ACQUIRE SANTANA

Finally!

After weeks and months, and what feels like years the Twins have moved Santana and Omar and the Mets are the big winner.

The package didn't even include the Mets' top prospect Fernando Martinez or young stud Mike Pelfrey.

They now have a window of 48-72 hours to agree to a contract and as much as I don't want to say you have to agree to a contract with him under any circumstances, THE METS MUST AGREE TO A CONTRACT WITH HIM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

I think the Omar Minaya did a wonderful job and played his cards very skillfully (or you can say he got very lucky and the Twins did a terrible job). No one knows how these prospects will turn out, but a Yankee offer of Phillip Hughes sure seems to be a better option than the Mets' package of Carlos Gomez, Deolis Guerra, Kevin Mulvey and Philip Humber.

Although I love young pitchers, and the Mets did give up 3 of them, this was a no brainer, and after the absolute embarrassment of September 2007 this had to be done.

16 days to pitchers and catchers!!!!

OMAR

Don't get me wrong about my Son of Stienbrenner posts...needless to say there is no love here, nor will there ever be, for the Yankees. But by no means will Omar and the the Mets get a free ride.

This team collapsed as badly if not worse, than the 2004 Yankees, and as far as I'm concerned was a total embarrassment for the last 2 weeks of 2007. They have done nothing to change or add to the team, and the best spin I can put on it is they have learned from the pain of that experience, never to take something for granted and never assume you won or have something when you don't. But even I'm not sure how much I believe that.

I am the biggest optimist, and look at the Mets' team through the rosiest of rose colored glasses, but I've got to be a little worried about a starting rotation of Pedro, Maine, Ollie, El Duque and Joe Appio.

While I go to bed searching every news article I can find about Santanta rumors, and wake up scouring the internet for any hint of what the Twins are going to do, and the Mets are going to do, I'll hold off on bashing Omar and the Mets until that is finaly resolved.