Amannyzing

I'm still insanely busy with school work, but this was too good to pass up:

Depending on who you're hearing it from the Mets are either close, or very far apart, in their ability to land Manny Ramirez. If the Mets really are interested in Manny, I can think of nobody in baseball I would rather have on the team. This is however very partisan, as Manny's in my Top 5 all time favorite players.

Regardless, the proposed deal is a straight-up swap of Ramirez for Clifford "Glass" Floyd.

Look, the contract is bad, absolutely. The Mets, while they would not be hamstrung by it, would need to be far more creative with their free agent signings and how they build the team than Omar may be ready to do. But Manny's deal is by no means an albatross of A-Rod proportions. Simply put, the Red Sox won the World Series with it last year. You don't get much better than that.

Meanwhile, Manny's the closest thing to a hitting machine in baseball. You're not going to confuse him with Carl Yastrzemski in the field, heck, you're not going to confuse him with Roger Cedeno. But with a bat in his hands he can do phenomenal things. And because of this, he is exactly what the Mets need right now. For his career he has averaged 41 homeruns with a .411 OBP and he's slugged .599. For his career! And one of the best lines in all of baseball video game history are about him, "Manny Ramirez is a great hitter. He gets more RBI's in a season then most players get hits!" - Chuck Valenches

Okay, it's not that great. But, I'm excited just the same.

And to boot, he's from the Dominican Republic, so his acquisition would more than likely cancel out the Moises Alou deal.

While this is more than likely not going to happen, at the very least Omar is now targeting Dominican players that are in their prime and can still be good players. It isn't Sammy Sosa or Moises Alou, and for that we should all be happy.

But come on, Manny in right?! How cool would that be?!