Bengie Molina believes that the Mets were never really serious about signing him, and that their protracted courtship was nothing more than a PR ploy. "I was talking to my cousin, she's from New York, and she said, 'Do you think they just did it for the heck of it, just so people don't say they didn't (try to make a big signing)?'" Molina told the Daily News. "In my opinion, I think they did, because I think if they really wanted me, they would have made a better offer so I could be happy to go to New York. ... If they would've offered me two years, I would've been there already. It didn't work out, and I'm very happy I stayed on the West Coast." Molina, 35, took a one-year, $4.5 million deal to stay with the Giants, $1 million less than the Mets offered, because he didn't want to move his family across the country for just one year.