This guy should already be wearing a Mets Uniform (Courtesy of MLB Media)

BY BRIAN NADEAU
STACHE WRITER

Depending on whom you believe, Omar Minaya may or may not have rejected a trade for Toronto ace Roy Halladay. The players mentioned were current Mets reliever Bobby Parnell, soon to be starting pitcher Jon Niese, 17-year-old shortstop Ruben Tejada and 20-year-old outfield Fernando Martinez.

At first glance it seems like a lot. Every glance after that and it seems like next to nothing. We’ve read several articles saying why this trade should or should not have been accepted. Some appear on this site and offer some great insight (Daniel Siegel’s tops the list). So I’ll throw my hat into the ring as well as to why this trade would be a no-brainer for the Mets.

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With the team decimated by injuries, guys like Sean Green need to really step it up.

BY BRIAN NADEAU
STACHE WRITER

Behind Door number one sits a team with the second highest payroll in baseball and a team that is a measly two games over .500 after 64 games. A team that consistently invents new ways to lose games; ways you’re 7-year-old youngster has yet to even discover. A team that repeatedly misspells the word “fundamentals;” a team that refuses to play situational baseball and a team that thinks adding onto their lead is like admitting you’re a fan of the Jonas Brothers’ music.

Behind Door number two sits a team that has been decimated by injuries yet is only is three games behind the defending World Series champs (yeah, that hurts just typing). A team that has players on their roster that make Mike Tyson’s Punchout seem futuristic; a pitching staff that is made up of has-beens that never were and a group of utility players that own stock in General Electric.

Again I ask, half full or…

The people trying to break down Door number one obviously are clamoring for a change. They’re not satisfied with the status quo, disgusted by the way the Mets have played up to this point and tired of missing what seems like a million and one opportunities to take over first place in the NL East. I hear their concerns and understand every one of them.

But I’m the guy taking admission tickets to Door number two. The Mets have played little more than one-third of the season and most of it with a roster that’s missing several key parts. I just don’t understand why everyone is up in arms and begging for something drastic to take place. If anything, we should be thanking the Phillies for being terrible, thanking them for refusing to kick us when we’re down and thanking them for having a bullpen that makes the 2008 Mets’ pen look like a collection of Rollie Fingers’.

The cavalry is coming folks. And with each day the Mets knock off the calendar, each day they don’t fall farther back of the Phillies and each day they get a bit healthier they get closer and closer to becoming a complete team. No one out there can tell me that a healthy Mets team would be only two over .500 right now. That with Reyes’ speed, Delgado’s bat and Maine and Perez’s arms the Mets don’t leapfrog the Phillies. And did I mention that Billy Wagner expects to be facing live batters in two weeks and there’s a great chance he’s on the roster by mid-August? Is that a good situational lefty to have in the pen against the Phillies three straight lefties?

Take another look everyone, the glass is clearly half full.