And by that, I mean free agent Chone Figgins:

CHICAGO — Though they are fixated on adding a power bat such as Matt Holliday’s or Jason Bay’s, the Mets are in the words of an involved party “absolutely in” on free agent Chone Figgins.

One Mets official said Figgins would be “hard to fit” into their current situation. Translation: It would be a whole lot easier if they could trade the two years and $12 million left on Luis Castillo’s contract to create money and a second base opening for Figgins.

Obviously the Castillo contract is terrible, but since when are the Mets worried about money?  First they say they aren’t interested in Lackey, and now it’s Castillo that may be holding up their acquisition of a good player?  Weird.

Anyway, for the sake of the rest of us, something needs to be done about this whole alternate spelling of names.  Chone?  What’s wrong with Shawn or Sean?  Because to me, it’s bullshit to spell your name one way and pronounce it another.  Hi, my name is Maddizzo45n.

At least it’s not Craphonso or D’Brickashaw.  I work with a lot of malpratice attorneys named D’Brickashaw.  Tons of ‘em.

[NY Post]