[Omar Minaya said] he had very good teams in 2006, 2007 and 2008, but each club just couldn’t ‘close things out.’ He says he still wonders what else he could have done to have kept that from happening.

– MetsBlog.com.

I mention this not to bury Minaya any deeper, but because we discussed the last game of the 2008 season last night in a part of the Mostly Mets Podcast that didn’t actually get recorded due to technical difficulties.

Minaya wants to know what else he could have done to help that club “close things out.”

In that game, the last game in the history of Shea Stadium, with the playoffs on the line, 22-year-old Nick Evans hit fifth and Ramon Martinez hit sixth. Both Marlon Anderson and Robinson Cancel were used as pinch-hitters.

The Robinson Cancel.