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Chris Rock sums up the state of the Mets better than any sports writer could.

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In the past, when the Mets have turned ugly on the field, they also have turned ugly off it as they compiled a collection bad attitudes and block heads that made it tough to view them as lovable losers.

And while he there is no guarantee that the current team will win or be likable, at least it will be brainy. And that may be all we have to look forward to.

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According to an NY Times report, Terry Collins will be named the new manager of the New York Mets. He is fiery, for sure, but this lifetime .500 manager is not exactly the guy I expect to drag the organization out of the dumps.

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Ollie Perez is experiencing knee pain, which is why the Mets placed him on the disabled list. Yep. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that I can give you cheap. I’ll even through in a certain left-handed pitcher.

I know I’m late to the party on this — he was DL’d Saturday — but I had to comment. I used to like Ollie, though he had a world of talent that, if it could be harnessed, would result in him being an elite pitcher. Now, I am convinced that his skills are eroding even as his head remains a problem.

We’ve had three-plus years of this nonsense, of Perez throwing a good game or two — maybe even a gem — and then imploding so spectacularly that you have to question whether he has a secret twin. Enough. The Mets need someone who can go out there consistently, pitch into the seventh and keep them in games. They do not need a guy who will strike out the side in the first and then walk the stadium in the second.

What’s especially maddening here is that Perez apparently does not see that it is in his best interests to go down to AAA, as the Mets have proposed. For whatever reason — pride, I suspect — he’d rather eat up a roster spot and pretend that he can find himself while being kept out of games. Just dumb, dumb, dumb.

If the Mets did not owe him so much money, he would have been dumped by now.

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I like this as both a short-term and long-term thing. Matthews was useless, as we have known since spring training. And while the Tejada call up is temporary, he is the second-baseman of the future.

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