Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I could swear that Mike Lupica is pro-Mets and anti-Yankees.

"Maybe some team will bowl over the Mets and give them some big prospect, maybe its best prospect, for R.A. Dickey.

And if that happens, how can they not think about it?

But I hope they work something out, and I hope he stays with the Mets beyond this year, because over the second half of last year, he and David Wright were all the Mets had, and sometimes all their fans wanted to watch.

As he went for 20 wins and made himself more and more of a legit Cy Young candidate, you waited for the day or night of his next start, and he was somebody who made you want to watch the Mets in another lost season.

It doesn’t mean the Mets are supposed to pay him whatever he wants, that’s not the way it works.

But R.A. deserves to get paid."

It will be totally fun to watch the Mets overpay for an aging, year-and-a-half wonder. This guy could be the second coming of Esteban Loaiza.



"The best part about the Yankees’ new payroll constraints is how offended members of the local media seem to be that Hal Steinbrenner won’t spend the way they want him to."

First of all, there is no good part of the new payroll constraints.  It's pointless and dumb on many levels.

But I'm wondering who on the local media is offended about it.  Are there so many members of the local media that you can't even name them?  Most of the local media I've read are completely buying into the idea that the Yankees are going to try go get under the payroll tax threshold.


"Right.

Hal needs to continue to give his guys unlimited resources because the money they’ve been spending is almost like an E-ZPass on the way to the Canyon of Heroes."

"The money they've been spending is almost like an E-ZPass on the way to the Canyon of Heroes."

I don't understand that analogy.

Did Damon Runyon rely on confusing metaphors? If so, this dude definitely deserves the Damon Runyon Award.


"And having said that?

How can anybody be surprised that you now hear this name — Josh Hamilton — with the Yankees, no matter what they’ve been saying about practically being on the verge of going over the fiscal cliff?"

No one I know is surprised. Just worried about the party atmosphere of the Big City.

But this guy can find a hotel bar in any city, so the real question with Hamilton is how much protection and opt-outs will be built into his contract.


"You know I started talking about Hamilton a month ago, just because he fit the Yankee profile — including the boatloads of money they might have to throw at him — in so many ways."

I started thinking about Hamilton in pinstripes 4 years ago.


"Plus, it would make everybody in our business so happy."

But not you. Because you don't buy into the pathetic Yankee party line. You're not a fanboy sellout punk for the Yankees.

You're just a fanboy sellout punk for the Red Sox and the Mets, but never for the Yankees.


"And if Hamilton-to-the-Yankees ever did happen, you know it will be treated like the single most brilliant purchase since the island of Manhattan."

The single most brilliant baseball-related idea since the Red Sox hired Bobby Valentine last season.