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The Mets are considering bringing Xavier Nady back to Queens. (PHOTO BY ICON SMI)
BY MICHAEL GANCI
EDITOR
I don’t know about you, but I am excited. Free agency has officially begun, and I expect some things that don’t have to do with Scott Boras to happen quickly, which means Omar Minaya better be working his butt of right now to get the Mets the help they need.
After watching some television before, I checked around the internet and nothing happened yet. I have this addiction to the Hot Stove. Luckily for me, it can’t kill you, because if it could, I would probably need some help.
So far, all I have heard that is relevant is that the Braves and Brewers are discussing a Corey Hart for Derek Lowe swap. It wouldn’t shock me to see a deal like this go through seeing as how the Braves have a plethora of starting pitching.
Then we have the Nady talk that I heard since yesterday. The idea would be to bring him in with the thought of some occasional outfield play, but the primary purpose would be so he could be the platoon partner for Tony Gwynn. I mean Daniel Murphy. Remember when Jerry Manuel made that comparison?
All I can say is that over the holidays, it would be nice to celebrate a Holliday or a Halladay. What do you think?
Categories: MLB , Matt Holliday , Mets , Michael Ganci , Roy Halladay , Xavier Nady
Do all you can to get Doc Haliday and sign Figgins! We can win with pitching and speed!
I hope we do get Nady back. I was crushed when I heard back in 2006 at the July trade deadline that Omar panicked (it figures) and traded Nady (one of the key right-handed bats with power that kept our line-up from being dominated by left-handed pitchers). Nady’s defacto replacement, Sean Green a left-handed bat, botched that non-catch in the right field corner that led to us losing a game in the play-offs to the Cardinals, IMO Nady would have caught it.
Nady was quickly becoming one of my favorite players and he was traded for a relief pitcher – a 40 year old one to boot! That relief pitcher (Roberto Hernandez) was pure garbage for the Mets on his second stint with the team. I feel we (I say “we” because these are our NY Mets not the Wilpons, they were our team long before these clowns came on the scene and they need to remember that they are just the current caretakers for this team.. but I digress) would have easily beaten the Cardinals if Nady was still in our line-up (he was having a career year) and likewise we would have crushed the Tigers in the World series. This boneheaded move itself should have gotten Omar canned back in 2006. And I won’t even get into that he traded Nady for two Hispanic players. I lied I will…
Prior to Omar showing up I never paid attention to the ethnicity of the ballplayers that the Mets acquired (because normally they were of all ethnicities) I curse Omar for this. FYI: 27 out of the 40 roster spots last year were Hispanic – the closest any other team had was either 13 or 17 out of 40, I forget which. This was not by accident, but by plan. He has single-handedly turned me into an hispanic ballplayer loather.
If I wanted to follow an all hispanic team I’d tune into the Caribbean World Series. This is still America and we’re a melting pot. Omar just doesn’t get this. Now because of Omar’s racist tint (read: agenda) towards Hispanic players (why under Omar’s reign the Mets shy away from American black players – we wouldn’t have won in 1969, 1973, 1986, or 2000 without them – is beyond me) we are falling farther and farther behind other teams.
NOTE TO OMAR: Maybe a few years ago during the steroid era these hispanic players were good, but now off the roids they have reverted back to their historical norms (borderline punch and judy hitters). Lets face it prior to the steroid era the two biggest hispanic homerun hitters were Tony Perez and Orlando Cepeda and neither of them even broke 400 homers. So yes, I firmly believe the reason a lot of these hispanic players were so good is because of the pharmaceuticals they were taking. Omar they’re no longer taking steroids open your eyes, you’re no longer living in 2002.
Enough of my ranting, get Nady back he can play first base and the outfield.