With another week gone by, I am humbled to have received an overwhelming mandate from the readers at Andrew Vazzano’s The ‘Ropolitans- nearly 76 percent of you believe I should be the next General Manager of the New York Mets.

If the Wilpons care about making the fans of the New York Mets happy- and I believe, despite all the recent missteps by the team, that they absolutely do- the results of the fan balloting has been unmistakable so far.

Eleven primaries. Eleven victories by Megdal for GM. Nearly all of them by a mandate greater than the one enjoyed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.

But like any candidate, I need to show the ability to inspire strength and confidence over a wide area in a single primary week. Therefore, this week is called:

MO VAUGHN MONDAY

Primaries are going on NOW at a wide range of venues.VOTE BY CLICKING ON THESE LINKS!

On The Black

Dana Brand’s blog

My Summer Family

Section 518

Eddie Kranepool Society

Brooklyn Mets Fan

Also, I urge you to check out the video interview I did with On The Black last night, for further details of how I will take the Mets to the glorious heights we all desperately want for the orange and blue.

Our time draws closer with each new victory, each new voice calling for LOGIC, TRANSPARENCY and PASSION.

And I would urge all of you to make your voices heard: visit the Megdal for GM shop, and wear your feelings about who should be the next General Manager of the New York Mets to Citi Field.

Well, it is clearer than ever that Mets fans are speaking with one voice: it is time to elect me the next General Manager of the New York Mets. Over at Pick Me Up Some Mets, I received 86 percent of the vote. That is at the level of a Democrat in Washington D.C., though I can promise you that no Marion Barry-style video will ever surface of me.

With the trade deadline behind us, I have written, in broad strokes, an op-ed response over at ESPN.com about what the Mets need to do next. Anyone following my campaign for LOGIC, TRANSPARENCY and PASSION knows these are simply part of a culture change in how the team is operated; nevertheless, they are the players and problems I’d be focused on should I get the chance to be the next General Manager this fall.

The primary campaign continues, with votes happening NOW at The Happy Recap and Mets Police:

CLICK HERE TO VOTE AT THE HAPPY RECAP!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE AT METS POLICE!

Don’t think for a second that your participation in this vital campaign for change is going unnoticed by the Mets. They are aware of both our demands and the book I am writing, set for release next spring by Bloomsbury, that will either detail their ability to improve the ballclub by incorporating our ideas, or failing to do so.

We are closer than ever to making certain that the next generation of Mets fans will have more happy recaps than any in history. And I am honored to lead such a crusade on behalf of everyone who bleeds orange and blue.

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward Megdal For GM. You voted in significant numbers again this past week: and your message was unmistakable. You want me, Howard Megdal, to be the next GM of the New York Mets.

Thanks to the voters at Mets Minor League Blog and Metsgrrl, I have now earned the mandate of four disparate Mets fan groups, along with the sabermetric-intensive voters at Amazin’ Avenue and the passionate fanbase over at New York Baseball Digest.

But our odyssey, that will take the fans from our seats into the front office of the team we all love, has just begun. Voting is now live at NJ.com’s Always Amazin’ and Faith and Fear in Flushing. Let’s continue the strong momentum our movement has already built. Change is coming to the New York Mets, and all of you are playing a part in making that change a reality.

VOTE AT ALWAYS AMAZIN’ HERE

VOTE AT FAITH AND FEAR IN FLUSHING HERE

In addition, let me urge all of you to come out tonight at 7 PM to Amazin’ All Star Monday, where I will be campaigning alongside speakers Marty Noble and Jon Springer. Hope to see you there!

Fresh off of a pair of landslide victories at Amazin’ Avenue (65 percent of the vote!) and New York Baseball Digest (68 percent of the vote!), voting has now begun at the thoughtful fan site Metsgrrl.com and the system-intensive MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com.

In addition, I am happy to announce that Toby Hyde of MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com has accepted my offer to become Director of Minor League Operations when I am elected next General Manager of the Mets. Hyde, who has tons of experience working on both the administrative and communications side of minor league baseball, has been an outstanding voice of reason concerning the New York Mets system for many years. He is currently the editor of MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com, and the voice of the Savannah Sand Gnats.

I urge you to take a moment to make your voice heard in each of these primaries. As usual, the forces of the status quo want to keep us from voicing our belief that there is a better way forward for the New York Mets, one based on LOGIC, TRANSPARENCY and PASSION.

Don’t let them stop us. We’ve come too far to let pessimism rule the day. Let’s take back the New York Mets. When my daughter cries, it shouldn’t be over baseball. Let her crying be over bedtime, or not being allowed to ride a motorcycle.

VOTE HERE FOR METSMINORLEAGUEBLOG.COM

VOTE HERE FOR METSGRRL.COM

Here are a few initial questions from a Q and A I’ll be doing with Toby at his site all week.

TOBY HYDE: Howard, why are you running to be the Mets’ next General Manager?

HOWARD MEGDAL: I am running to be the next General Manager because I believe the Mets can be run using the three pillars of LOGIC, TRANSPARENCY and PASSION. Logic will mean making plans that makes sense at Points C, D and E, not simply at Point A (see Mejia, Jenrry). Transparency means that you’ll know why I made these moves every step of the way- I will be consistently available to both the media, and more importantly, to the fans. And Passion comes from my having lived and died with this team since age six, obsessing over moves both large and small, major and minor, baseball-related and those affecting the fans. None of them will be overlooked on my watch.

TH: Do you realize that the Mets aren’t hiring a GM right now? In fact, if the playoffs started today, the Mets would be the wild card?

HM: Ultimately, it will be up to the Mets, and the fans, to determine if they want to change course, now or ever. In my time covering the Mets, and in my time loving the team, there have been so many ups and downs, easily-preventable baseball travesties and unexpected joys. In other words, luck has played almost the entirety of the role in success and failure. And since, as Branch Rickey put it, “Luck is the residue of design”, that’s meant two world championships since 1962, despite all the advantages cited above. We can do better.

TH: If you were the GM of the Mets, what would change in the farm system?

HM: Well, as you know, Toby Hyde has accepted a position as my Director of Minor League Operations. So I’d obviously consult with you on a range of matters. But I can start with one I know we already agree on. IT IS TIME FOR THE METS TO CONSISTENTLY DRAFT ABOVE SLOT. There is no greater way for the New York Mets to leverage their market advantage than by adding high-upside players to the farm system by drafting them in later rounds and convincing them to sign. I’d do my best to get the Wilpons to allocate additional money for this. And if the budget should remain fixed, well, I’d happily do without the services of whoever the next Alex Cora and Gary Matthews Jr. are, and spend that $4 million instead on players like Joba Chamberlain, Austin Jackson, Dellin Betances and Andrew Brackman.