Drum Roll Please

And the losers are.....

No arbitration for Richard Hildalgo.

Yet, Hildalgo doesn't want to go. What is it, that special Shea water?

Is the Pedro Theory over already? Sox offer arbitration, if nothing else.

Because he was so indominable last season, Mike DeJean is back in the pen.

Somehow, somewhere, there's still Sosa talk still going on. What's next, reelection for Bush?

Magically, simultaneously, the Ordonez Days are over in Chicago. Hmmm. Expensive prima donna star on the decline or Ordonez in right field. Tough one.

As though adding insult to injury, Carlos Delgado is on the Mets wish list. Can't we just take his name off?

What do we need Delgado for when we've got Craig Brazell and his minimalist OBP waiting in the wings?

Fittingly, the Mets will open their season against their primary opponents in the Battle For the Basement against the Washington Nats.

That's it kids, now get back to work.