Carlos BumTran decided that it was time to get surgery. What an idiot! Does the damn guy own a calendar? Instead of going under the knife the week after the NY Mets season ended - about May of 2009 - Carlos Beltran decides to wait for half of the off-season to pass before calling his doctor.

Now we're going to have one of our best players out for a month at the start of the season. GREAT way to kick off a new 2010 NY Mets season.

Tony Bernazard, the NY Mets VP of player development, decided to take in a Double A game in Binghamton recently. Presumably, the Double A Mets played like the MLB Mets. In other words, the Binghamton Mets sucked, threw batting practice for the opposing team, dogged it in the field, and forgot how to get on base. This prompted Bernazard, like many other Mets fans, to get a little frustrated with the team.

Every Mets fan has felt this way, but Bernazard actually did something about his frustration with the team.

It's no longer a rumor that the Mets are terrible, it's a fact. After being shut-out by the minor league caliber Washington Nationals on Tuesday night, the New York Mets fell to 10 games back in the NL east, and tied the major lead league in games they were shut out in at nine. Nine freakin times the Mets have been shut out in 2009... and it's still July!

Even if the Mets rumor about Roy Halladay miraculously comes true, they are now so far behind it may not matter. Trading relief pitchers for Roy Halladay would be a sign that the Mets have given up on this season and are looking forward to building a team that can compete in 2010.

When Joe Torre coached the Mets from '78 to '81, the Mets finished better then last place twice when they finished in second to last place in 1980 and 1981. Rusty Staub (remember that ginger?) was on the decline of an epic career, and the other power bat for the early 1980's Mets, Dave Kingman, only played one season of over 140 games. Kingman may have gone on to win the MVP in Oakland the year after he left the Mets, but he's not good enough to make the 1980's Mets top 10 list.