Anybody Have Any $289 Million Dollar Checks You Haven't Cashed Yet?

Diehard Met fan Shawna Shea has another idea to help the Mets, but is she really serious? You have to judge for yourself and get out your checkbooks:

"While watching today’s game, I couldn’t help but be completely embarrassed for the 2010 team, especially with the greats of Frank Cashen, Davey Johnson, Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry being honored there along with other Mets greats. How could they turn a beautiful day into that “@$%#^%$^%” ?!?!?!?

I only wish that Frank Cashen was our General Manager again. He knew baseball. He was the greatest GM we ever had. Maybe he should quickly write a “How To” book!!! We need it.

Shawna has a serious idea to help save this team. Instead of thinking of one person to buy the team, how about a group??? I know “the fans” should be the first ones to do it, but seriously who has the money! How about getting some Mets Alum together? Especially the 1986 team (except maybe Lenny Dykstra – he’s not so good at managing money).

That team showed heart, guts and determination. You could get Darryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, Davey Johnson, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez, Mookie Wilson, etc to pool their money together and they could raise funds from all their contacts. The new association to buy the Mets would be called “Glory Days”. In all honesty, these are the only people that love baseball and the Mets enough to help save it and return the Mets to their glory days!!!

As Davey Johnson stated in his acceptance speech: “It was a great thrill in my life to come to New York and have the opportunity to manage in front of the most intelligent fans in all the world. All I had to do was listen to the radio and I knew exactly how I was going to manage the team the next day. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Can we get Davey Johnson out of retirement to be our new manager??"

- Shawna Shea