Deadline Buyers... Say WHAT?

A few things Omar could buy to help this team at the trade deadline:

• Mount Sinai Medical Center
• A contractor to move the fences at Citi Field in about 40 feet
• Bobby Valentine
  
• A book on Mets history for Fred Wilpon
• Lenox Hill Hospital
• A copy of the 1986 Mets tape for Fred Wilpon
• A clue
• St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital
• A successor

In fairness, I can't kill Omar for saying that the Mets will be buyers at the deadline. I mean, when the general manager starts saying the team will be sellers, it's a concession that the team he's assembled has no chance to make a run at the playoffs.

That may be obvious to people like you or me who follow this team desperately, but it might be less apparent to your average Joe Six Pack who follows the team only casually. He may think that the team still has a shot when Beltran, Reyes, Delgado, and all the rest come back, and it might still be worth his while to shell out for absurdly priced seats at Citi Field.

So, no, I can't fault Omar for saying the team will be buyers at the deadline, but I sure as hell fear the possibility that he really believes this team should be buyers at the deadline.

There's a long way between the two, but given his track record as GM and the organization's continued delusion that it still fields the 2006 Mets, you really have to worry.

You can talk about whether the Roy Halladay deal would have made sense -- marquee players like Halladay can be worth shelling out for under any circumstances (just ask the 1998 Mets about Mike Piazza).

But the underlying reality is that there's no one the Mets can buy that would save this season, and we as fans have to pray that Omar realizes that.

Honestly, I have no idea whether he does or not.

Have nice weekends, all.

- A.F.O.M.G.