There has been a lot of talk about the Mets telling Jason Bay and Bengie Molina to "take it or leave it" on their offers, or more scarily, some fans are calling for the Mets to put a time limit on the offers... This my fellow Mets fans is a bad bad idea.

Last Year, the Nationals made an offer to Adam Dunn at this point in the season, most analysts and Dunn himself scoffed at the idea of going to the Nationals. Mr Dunn kept fishing for a bigger better contract however when the market dried up, the Nats who never rescinded their offer or played hardball with Mr Dunn, wound up with him at their asking price. Many people do not believe there is another team bidding on Jason Bay and Bengie Molina, however we are not in the position to be issuing ultimatums, maybe there really is another bidder. The smart thing to do is to leave our offer out there and not say "take it or leave it" to anyone. If the Mets are the only bidders sooner or later they will sign.