Did you enjoy the Kaz Matsui era?

The Mets finally dumped Matsui on an unsuspecting Dan O'Dowd, trading him to the Rockies for super-scrub Eli Marrero. They save no money on the deal, but they do pick up outfield reinforcements in Marrero, with Nady out and Floyd banged up. And I think it says something about how badly Matsui wanted out that he waived not only his no-trade clause, but also the clause in his contract forbidding his team from sending him to the minors (the Rockies immediately sent him to Colorado Springs).

I was actually talking to a friend of mine at work today about the Rockies, and we couldn't come up with the name of their second baseman. He's not nearly as big a baseball fan as I am, but I was disappointed in myself for not being able to figure it out. Well, whoever it is (my best guess was Luis A. Gonzalez), I assume Matsui, as bad as he's been, will be better once he comes back up from AAA.

Okay, I'm curious, so I'm looking it up: Colorado's second baseman is Jamey Carroll (Gonzalez is on the DL). Carrol's career line is .277/.355/.352 in 949 at bats. Matsui's is .256/.308/.363 in 857 at bats. Well, I stand corrected, and now I see more vividly the pain that Mets fans have been dealing with all this time...