It didn’t take us long to get sick of the trade deadline this year. Naturally, as Mets fans we’ve been sick of the trade deadline since the Amazins traded Jason Isringhausen for Billy Taylor, not to mention the time they sent some Kazmir guy to Tampa Bay for surefire All-Star, 10-minute-fix Victor Zambrano.

(It should be noted that we were at Zambrano’s last game for the Mets, when he tweaked something in his elbow, threw a pitch, then just ran off the field mid-inning. We thought it was funny, injury aside, and we stood on our feet and cheered his departure. Mets fans around us got mad that we were making light of his injury, but we were really just making light of the franchise’s storied commitment to making boneheaded deadline deals then keeping the crappy players they received around for way too long out of hubris. Those same fans later booed Cow-Bellman, who slots in right behind Victor Zambrano on the list of people who exemplify everything that’s ever gone wrong with the Mets.)

Besides the jilted-lover feeling we sometimes get from the Mets at the deadline, we hate hearing about all the rumors. Mostly because so few of those rumors come true. So Manny Ramirez is heading to the Marlins? Could be. But it’s equally possible he won’t be dealt at all, or that he’ll randomly end up on some other team that Ken Rosenthal and Peter Gammons and Buster Olney said nothing about. And once he gets there, he’ll still be awesome.

Until then, we’re going to avoid the temptation to break down every possible Mets trade option and tell you why they all suck. That’s someone else’s job. We’ll just wait to see who they get, and then tell you why he sucks on tomorrow’s episode of The Nooner.