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Early signs indicate that the Mets’ pitcher relief corps could resemble last year’s more than any sadist would recommend.

The Mets extended the contract of general manager Omar Minaya through 2012 and included team options for 2013 and 2014. The team will now turn its attention to the manager, Jerry Manuel.

General Manager Omar Minaya acknowledged the challenges inherent in strengthening a team that failed miserably in the final weeks for the second consecutive year.

Brian Cashman’s Yankees didn’t make the playoffs either, but Omar Minaya’s team has in consecutive seasons now turned late-season failure into fiasco.

The Mets staged a lovely farewell to Shea Stadium that succeeded with its tacit admission that the last 44 years have not always been grand.

It must have been difficult for Omar Minaya, who relishes aggressive trade discussions, to watch baseball’s other big-market teams consummate headline-stealing swaps.

The Mets have won 14 of their past 17 games, including three straight, to vault into first in the division, and their lead grew to two games over the Phillies and the Marlins,

Aramis Ramírez broke a scoreless tie with a three-run homer in the eighth to lift Chicago against the Giants, and a veteran scout has been linked to a betting probe.

In an interview, Willie Randolph said “shabby” wasn’t strong enough of a word to describe how the Mets treated him.

The Mets’ General Manager struggled to answer why a decent baseball man had to effectively be dragged through the street before finally being let go.