New York Mets

The New York Yankees must join the rest of the sporting world and sell naming rights to their new stadium. If they can't do it today, because of the economy, they must take care of it as soon as they can. 

The Dallas Cowboys, the world's wealthiest sports franchise, is currently negotiating a naming rights deal, the Washington Redskins play in a stadium named "Fed Ex" and the storied Manchester United Soccer team plays in Old Tafford—not "Manchester United Stadium."

A little more than two weeks into the season and the Mets are 6-9 and were just swept by the St Louis Cardinals, and there is serious talk about firing coaches and demoting pitchers to the minor leagues.

The Mets are now starting a home stand against the Nationals and Marlins, it is crucial that the Mets get their legs under them soon or else there will be major consequences.

Jerry Manuel is on a short leash, no question, but I for one am not positive firing the coaches and sending pitchers down to the minors will solve the team's problems.

Just happened to take a peak at how Buffalo is doing, and in reading a recap of the Bison's start to the season you would think that the writer was talking about the Mets.

Mets manager Jerry Manuel told the New York Daily News he may have to add an eighth reliever to the bullpen.

I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a team carrying 13 pitchers. Sure, some teams will carry eight relievers to start a season while they only need four starters, but never five starters and eight relievers.

Initially, I thought it would simply be too many arms, at the sacrifice of a position player.

But if four of the Mets five starters can only go into the fifth inning then the Mets better protect their greatest asset—the bullpen.

It's not even May, but I'm already annoyed, agitated, and other adjectives that express distaste for this Mets team. Time to open the flood gates:

If you go to Metsblog.com and check out the in-game comments for today's 12-8 Mets loss to the Cardinals, you would think that the world is ending or something.  People are calling for Jerry Manuel and various members of the coaching staff to be fired, for core players to be traded, and for a nice tall glass of whiskey to deal with the pain. And Matt Cerrone tells us after the game that:

I'm an optimist.

I'm a New York Mets fan.

No, the two are not mutually exclusive. Yet this year, the latter is testing the former. 

The Mets are 6-8, soon to be 6-9. Going into today's game against the St. Louis Cardinals, the only starting pitcher with consistency has been Johan Santana. Jose Reyes has only two stolen bases and seven runs scored. David Wright has five RBI.

I understand when a player is so incredibly talented that a team must find a way to make him a starter even when there isn't room for him.

Alfonso Soriano moving to left field in the majors comes to mind, but were talking about a player who is an all-star and Silver Slugging award winner.