Omar, are you listening?

Yes, I noticed your bosses raised ticket prices 20%, basically holding us hostage knowing we wouldn’t dare miss the final season at Shea. It doesn’t help that the ticket hike comes on the heels of the Mets historic collapse.

There is a great way you can make fans feel like they’re paying for something worthwhile.

Put Johan Santana under our collective Christmas trees.

A gesture like this is what fans are clamoring for. The natives are restless with the team coming off a nightmare end to their regular season, and an off season with little to show for.

If you can get a deal done by trading anyone not named Wright, Reyes, Maine, or Perez, you simply have to pull the trigger. Putting Johan at the top of the Mets rotation brings hope, stability, and a much needed jolt of positivity to the orange and blue masses. Imagine the buzz in Queens, with Pedro Martinez and Johan Santana taking the mound in our final season at Shea. Imagine the excitement and optimism it would bring, maybe even enough to make someone forget the last four months.

John Harper of the New York Daily News today cites a an AL executive “close to the situation” who says the Red Sox aren’t really interested in Santana because of the financial ramifications and are only involved to discourage the Yankees.

Kat O’Brien in Newsday writes that the Yankees continue to refuse to add Ian Kennedy to a package along with Philip Hughes and according to a source with knowledge of the situation said Friday,

“I don’t see it happening with us, we pulled out in Nashville, and we haven’t put an offer back on the table.”

The package is there for you to take Omar. All you need to do is wrap it up and put it under our tree.