Oliver Perez & Luis Castillo... get the fuck outta here

Sit your ass down Ollie

Mets fans will have to find new scapegoats to hedge the blame for the team's 2011 fiasco. But let's take a minute to rejoice what is surely the brightest news on the Mets front of the last few years. Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo are gone! FINITO! We have been screaming, clawing, nail & tooth these past few years for someone to run these worthless bums out of town and finally, after teasing us for a few months, GM Sandy Alderson has done just that. The bankrupt Mets will bite the bullets on their combined $18 million dollar contracts and just for this, the Mets are a better team.

There was no way that Sandy Alderson could have let the Mets enter the regular season with those two joining the team up north. Citi Field would have gone ballistic, for the 3 days that there are actually people in the seats. Luis Castillo was hobbled by injuries for most of his Mets tenure and his banishment from the club was set in stone when he dropped the A-Rod pop-up against the Yankees. In reality, its a huge question mark on whether the Mets replacement at second will improve the team. One thing will be a given, the Mets will have more power from that position but OBP and defense could be a different story. It is really what Castillo symbolized that made his exit a necessity. He symbolized ineptitude, failure and expectations not met. His release will be a huge burden off the backs of the Mets management, the team and of course, the fans who hate him so much.

Castillo's infamous drop

Ollie P is a whole different ball of wax. This guy was worth as much as a bag of garbage and yet Omar Minaya decided it was prudent to give him an $18 million contract. He can't break 87 on his fastball, he has no command on his once reputable breaking ball. Sometimes I thought I could see opposing batters laughing in the batters box as they waited for Perez to walk them.

The whole "left-specialist" charade was a fucking joke. He sucked in the Mexican league this winter and he sucked all spring training.  He will go down as one of the worst, most hated Mets of all time. Good riddance.