So the Miami- not Florida, mind you- Marlins signed Jose Reyes for $106 million and now the New York Mets are looking at starting the season with Ruben Tejada as their everyday shortstop.

So?

There's no denying Reyes is a talented player but unless I've been in an alcohol induced stupor the last 10 years- and I'm not saying I wasn't- there hasn't been a whole lot of October baseball in the Reyes era.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit when I typed there.

Sure, as a Mets fan I wanted them to keep him. However that price tag for a leadoff man with a history of hamstring issues is not only high, it's ludicrous. It's the kind of publicity haranguing a franchise who needs to justify a $515 million stadium pulls.

Someone as going to overpay Reyes, thankfully it wasn't the Mets.

And in the wake of he signing Reyes makes a stupid comment that the Mets didn't make him feel wanted. Hey jackass, they signed you when you were 16. You really think after all these years and patience with your menagerie of injuries they didn't want to keep a player who can be one of the most electrifying players in the game?

The truth is that it wasn't about the love or feeling wanted. It was purely about the money. I understand that train of thought completely.

What I now also understand is just what kind of ego-maniac Reyes is. Hats off to Jeffrey Loria for playing his hand absolutely perfectly: the guy meets Reyes at 12:01 AM with a Jose Reyes Miami Marlins jersey under his overcoat. The only thing missing was a billboard in South Beach. Reyes must have crapped a tie-dyed twinkie when he saw that.

Some have criticized Mets GM Sandy Alderson for not getting anything in return to Reyes, and some of that might be fair but can you really say you would have traded Reyes last July if you could without knowing what you know now?

At the end of the day, a Reyes-less Mets team is not the end of the world. In fact, if Reyes really is all about himself as much as his recent comments lead me to believe, it will actually be addition by subtraction.

It's a new era at Citi Field and Mets fans should embrace it. Now about that bullpen....