Pitching first, please. Young and hungry preferred.

You’re wrong on so many different levels that I’ll try to break all of them down for you as best I can.

#1 The minute you use Omar Minayas track record as the GM of the Expos during a time when the remaining 29 teams OWNED the team, you’ve run out of time with me.

#2 The Expos were on the brink of folding in 2002 when he dealt for Bartolo Colon and were also trying to win a playoff spot. When a team is about to be deleted from the league and at the same time they have a chance at a playoff berth why would you NOT deal prospects for a strong arm at the time?

My sabermetric guy Ricciardi has a cable company owning his team and controlling every dollar he wants to spend. Look at Theo Epstein, Andrew Friedman, Jon Daniels. If you’re going to sit there and tell me a sabermetrics mind isn’t valuable than I think you must be standing behind Boston’s 2 championship banners and they are blocking your view.

Yeah sabermetrics are so dumb. People who discredit them like you’re doing are just discrediting it because you don’t understand it. Before the idea of sabermetrics which every team uses in some degree by the way, a guy like Kevin Youkilis wouldn’t be more valuable than a guy like Aaron Hill.

They need to go out and get a guy who is actually doing the GM job well, actually accumlating talent at the minor and major league levels. Not guys who’ve been fired for not doing that job well (Towers, Toronto guy) or who have been involved in the Mets organization not doing their job well (Ricco and for that matter — Minaya, Phillips, Duquette, etc.).

But what I expect is that someone over the next year — Ricco is the leader at this right now — will talk up the Wilpons, show some sort of irrelevant “skillset” (translation, can BS the Wilpons) and get hired so that the cluelessness and inability to accumulate talent continues.

Look at your sabremtric guy Ricciardi and where that landed him.

You sabermetric guys are all obsessed with this magic math of yours, and just last week somebody on this site said Murphy was rated the second best defensive first baseman in the NL. Really??? That tells me all I need to know.

Possibly Paul DePodesta fits that description.

When Towers was given $ to spend, he spent $10m on Maddux, 7.5 on Hoffman, 9.6 on Giles, 3.5 on Barrett, 8m on Edmonds, 4.5 on Greene.

How’d that work out in 08?

Kevin Towers was let go because he actually was not good at the job they wanted to accomplish in San Diego.

The Padres are a “lower market” type team, yet they have one of the worst farm systems in MLB. What is Omar’s biggest flaw? Haven’t we all said it’s evaluating draft talent and picking the right player? So to help him out we’re going to try to hire somebody who is arguably worse than him at it?

Towers did pull off a steal for Adrian Gonzalez. No question.

I’m not going to get all giddy about Chris Young though. The guy has been above average at best. He had 1 very good year, that’s it.

Jake Peavy should have been traded in the off-season but Towers dragged his feet and didn’t get it done.

Peavy was then dealt and blocked the trade in an embarrasing moment for the Padres franchise which would lead one to believe Towers didn’t communicate with his franchise pitcher prior to signing off on a deal.

If we’re going to praise one trade he made look at the list of moves he’s made in full. He makes no impact deals. He doesn’t take risks.

If you’re going to sit here and tell me Heath Bell proves he’s some kind of trade genius fine. Any GM would have traded Bell away in the Mets office after the years he had.

Who drafted Oliver Perez oh riiiiight that was Kevin Towers. So you all hate Oliver Perez but now you want to hire the guy who picked him in the amateur draft?

Towers re-signed Brian Giles and let the face of the franchise in Trevor Hoffman walk. I get that he had Heath Bell in his back pocket but again. Face of your franchise.

I’m trying to think what else. Contract extensions for guys like Kevin Jarvis and letting Steve Finley walk.

If the Mets are going to hire a guy to work with Omar (which they won’t) they need it to be somebody who has strengths where Omar has weaknesses. Towers and Minaya are so similar it makes me wanna bang my head against the wall at the thought he’d be in our front office.

If the Mets are looking for a new direction they need to get a young GM who has a background similar to Theo Epstein. A sabermetrics type guy who can find undervalued talent and pay them what they are worth so that when the big $ players become available they have enough to go get them. They need a small market mind with a big budget agenda.