Mets Bring Back Alou
The New York Mets [exercised their option] on ageless outfielder Moises Alou yesterday, ensuring the 172-year-old slugger will rejoin the Kings of Queens in 2008. Alou will make $7.5 million, although that figure doesnt include the large doses of Ginkgo biloba and Viagra that will be necessary to keep Alou functional and happy at his advanced aged.
The Dominican slugger only played in 87 games last year, but he was New Yorks most productive hitter while in the lineup. He batted an incredible .341 with 13 home runs, 49 RBIs and just 30 strikeouts in 328 at-bats. He also strung together a 30-game hitting streak in August and September, the longest by any New York player since a guy named Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees set the record with 56 games in 1941. Maybe youve heard of him.
Alou could simply have retired to a nursing home, but after the Mets [historic collapse] that was only surpassed throughout history by the [Fall of the Roman Empire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fall_of_rome), Alou stated that the Mets had unfinished business. I really havent gotten over [it] yet, said Alou, a six-time All-Star. Neither have we, Moises. Neither have we.