I’m in a cafe on the edge of Times Square after we (myself and a few other fellow reporters) spent a few minutes with David Wright at the Hard Rock Cafe on 43rd and 7th. Wright was there for the fourth annual “Do the Wright Thing Gala,” with, among others, David Cook of American Idol fame. (I couldn’t have picked Cook out without the cameras and microphones pointed in his face. One fellow reporter summed it up best when he said there are thousands of people who would love to stand that close to Cook — my wife and some of our friends included — but we certainly weren’t exactly members of that crowd.)

We only had Wright for about four or five minutes, but he had some interesting things to say. I’ll post a complete transcript in the morning, but here are the highlights:

On the prospect of the Mets acquiring a big-time closer: “I think obviously you go through two seasons like we have the last couple of years and you’re going to need a little bit of a face lift. I think there’s 30 teams out there that could use pitching and obviously we’re one of them.”

He’d be willing to reach out to prospective Mets, a la Derek Jeter with the Yankees: “I’m more than willing. I live here most of the offseason, so if the organization wants me to be a tour guide or make a phone call, I’d be more than happy to do that.”

He likes K-Rod but considers Brian Fuentes on the same level: “I think Fuentes is right up there in the same caliber.”

He wouldn’t say whether or not closer is the team’s No. 1 priority: “I feel that not only am I lucky that I get to go out and play a game for a living, I don’t have to make those kinds of decisions. Omar goes out there and he does a great job giving us the talent. We as players need to step up and get the job done.”