The Mets need to be fumigated, stripped bare and built from the ground up. There is no patch job here.
Let’s face it. Your team is filled with losers.
That’s not harsh. Sadly, it’s reality.
Professional sports has a short menu — wins and losses. None of the other stuff really matters…
– Rob Parker, ESPNNewYork.com.
I read this article and planned to just let it go because I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Parker’s writing since he wrote a Newsday column about the dedication of the 4,000-some die-hard fans at Shea at a rainy August game I attended with my brother.
But I got three e-mails pointing me to this “disaster” piece, so I figured I should at least mention it. Here’s what I’d say: Not even worth our time. It’s so heavy on brazenly worded platitudes and so thoroughly devoid of substance that it reads like the very worst of Bleacher Report.
I have almost no doubt some editor said, “Mets fired Minaya, we need someone to stir some s*** up for pageviews… What? Wally Matthews is already on his way to Minnesota? OK, Parker, you’re on it.”
And Rob Parker was like, “Here’s the scoop: The Mets are losers and should trade everyone.”
And the editor was all, “That sells. Think you can squeeze 800 words out of that?”
And Parker said, “Meh, barely, but I’ll really stretch it out.”
And so we have this column. The Mets are all losers. Because Omar Minaya tried to make a World Series winner and didn’t, you shouldn’t keep any of the players from the team he assembled. Logic!
Oh, and the only substantive solution: Cliff Lee. Cliff Lee will win the NL East on his own next year, even though he’s a 32-year-old pitcher who will likely require a contract that will ultimately become an albatross.
Wait, what am I doing? I thought I said I wasn’t going to bother. Carry on.
Tedquarters 
So here’s his plan as I understand it…
Step 1: Shed all current Mets.
Step 2: ????????
Step 3: Win the World Series.
What a stupid article.
It’s like the business model adopted by the Underpants Gnomes.
I like when he said Sign Cliff Lee to signal change. That is the opposite of change. Signing a 32 year old left hander to a 5 year, $100M+ deal IS NOT CHANGE!
this is some lazy, wack ass sports writing. conflating th word, losers, in the literal sense (eg the mets lost more games than they won this year, hence they are losers) with , losers, the pejorative, is not just lame, its insulting to the reader.
this sports writer is weak. so lets face it, he need to get in the gym and push some weights around. thats not mean, its reality, he is a weak writer and would probably lose a fist fight with my grandmother.
what a jagov.
During Cliff Lee’s stay with the Mariners, they were 34-52. Hence, Cliff Lee is a loser.
Touche, Berg.
Eh, I think there’s a kernel of truth. The current crop of players have a tendency to come up small – far smaller then the stats would predict for obscenely long stretches of time. On top of that, Good teams like the Yanks and Phils always seem to have players that come back from injury quickly and play relatively well right off the bat. The Mets, the injuries linger and players suck and often have to go right back on the DL.