It's Country Time In Beantown

Coincidentally, we're up here in Boston to have some chowder and catch Billy Wagner's debut with the Red Sox (which didn't come on Thursday ... Nick Green pitched instead). It was a little tense when Country Time brought his Mets gear into the home clubhouse. Luckily, the crack staff chronicled the entire thing. We have it exclusively for you:

Country Time Learns To Love That Dirty Water

The saga is over ... Billy Wagner is a Boston Red Sock. The Mets, instead of getting the two first round draft picks through arbitration desperately needed to help resurrect the franchise, or even halfway decent prospects from Boston to help down the road, will receive two players to be named later, who will probably wind up being two guys named Sully and Fitzy that hang out in Cambridge on the weekends. Meanwhile the Red Sox will probably draft the next Ted Williams and Josh Beckett with the high picks they get, ensuring that they'll continue to be a behemoth for years to come.

But fear not, because the Mets will save more than two million bucks on Wagner's contract which will help the Wilpons stay out of hock for another three months. You want better players? Maybe you should have bought two Shake Shack burgers instead of one.

What a joke. An awful joke that's not funny.

Good luck, Country Time. It's been fun. Now play nice with Papelbon while the rest of us sort through the garbage in this never ending wasteland.