To solve Mets' bullpen problem, bid for K-Rod

I'm not saying not to go after K-Rod, but K-Rod isn't going to help David Wright (or the countless other Mets that can't perform under pressure) get the big hit when they really need it. DW is starting to remind me of A-Rod. Great numbers when it doesn't matter as much, but in the spotlight...whiff...

Typical. Another season collapses and the answer from many including Ken Davidoff is to just import another wildly expensive free agent. Isn't that the thinking that led the Mets to sign Billy Wagner? Wagner was effective, but will honor just 2.5 years out of a 4 year contract. If the Mets sign "K-Rod", they're looking at over $25 million just for the closer, factoring in Wagner's salary as well.
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These long-term contracts to closers rarely, rarely are good deals. Should Heilman and Co. be shown the door? Absolutely. I'd get rid of all of them except for Stokes and the Sept. call-ups. Maybe keep Feliciano around solely in a late 90s Jesse Orosco fashion for one lefty batter. But bullpens are extremely unreliable all over the league and to think that a shopping spree will remake everything is foolish.
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Has it been good that the Mets have had winning records the past two seasons? But really...what good is that when you don't reach the playoffs. The best thing that could happen to the Mets---long-term---is for them to disintegrate early so they might play "seller" for a change and import some young players.
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As it is, the Mets have major holes (or will have major holes after 2009) at:
-1B (2009 is Delgado's last year and he'll be 37)
-2B (what to do with Castillo, who's signed through the end of 2011!)
- LF (I can't imagine Alou coming back or them going with Tatis or Nick Evans, who unlike D. Murphy, is strictly minor-league material)
- RF (Church has a serious chronic injury)
- C (Almost nonexistent offense from that position)
-#3SP (Do you bring back Perez w/a longterm,$9mil/ann. contract?)
-#4SP (How can you do worse than Pedro?)
-#5SP (LimaTime anyone?)
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Point is the Mets have major holes and bringing in K-Rod would just inhibit them in a major way from addressing these positions. They're already stuck with Castillo...they're stuck with Schoenweis...Hell, they're even still (STILL!) paying Bobby Bonilla (and will do so until 2035....look it up).
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This solution to simply go shopping is thinking that will always keep this team the way it is---good enough for a winning record, but not good enough for the post-season; good enough to think that using multiple young players in key positions is not viable; good enough to think that they just need tweaking. This team and organization is not close; the whole philosophy from the way they gouge their fans down to how they handle things in a patchwork, reactionary way will always reflect in years like 2007 and 2008. And for what its worth, the Cards won the 2006 WS with no closer (Wainwright was a convert) and the Phils won the division last year with Brett Myers. Yes, the bullpen stunk it up for NY this year, but that was just one side of it.