Say Hello To The Washington Jets?

With yesterday's signing of standout kick returner Chad Morton to a five-year, $7.95 million offer sheet, at the current rate, the Washington Redskins will have signed the entirety of the New York Jets roster, well ahead of the September 4th deadline, when The New York Jets will play at Washington in the NFL's season opener.

Earlier, Jets guard Randy Thomas, then Jets kicker John Hall signed deals with the Redskins who, to date, have signed eight unrestricted free agents since last Friday and are attempting to sign wide receiver Kevin Dyson, an unrestricted free agent from the Tennessee Titans. Time will tell if The Danny ever learned from his last bout of overindulgence with free agents. As Thomas Edison once mused: "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.'

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The first scab of Spring Training has been ripped off the flesh of the Mets and look what we find underneath: Pedro Astacio complaining of recurring bicep tendinitis in the front of his right shoulder. Since before the day he signed, Astacio had skeptics wondering when his right shoulder would give out due to a partially torn labrum and it looks like his day of reckoning is fast approaching.

What that means for the Mets is that shortly, their two top starters will be 37 years old, their number three starter may be out for the season, they've got a number four starter with a career 90-108 won-loss record and if we're lucky, a 40-year old David Cone as a fifth starter. I can't tell if this is a starting rotation or an open audition for a new reality tv show called "Get me out of this nursing home!"

Oh well, if all else fails, there's always Jae Weong Seo to the rescue.

And although I beseeched the Baseball Gods all winter long to convince the Mets to dump Armando Benitez before his market value bottoms out, there he was, the King of the Choke, doing his best beached-Mo Vaughn imitation out there in the Florida sun. Frankly, unless three or four Mets starters have career seasons at the plate and the Mets can average about 15 runs a game, there probably won't be much need for Benitez to roll out from the bullpen when it counts this year.

It's funny. Yesterday you had Tom Glavine discussing the kind of adjustments he has to get used to with Piazza and his fielders. Reportedly, the Mets planned on pulling out old scouting reports that included Atlanta's defensive alignment with Glavine pitching. Perhaps the Mets should focus more on teaching Wigginton to play third base without flubbing every third ball hit to him and Cedeño to well, to just try not to get hurt out there in center. Glavine, no doubt, will have to incorporate a new pitching theory that utilizes the kind of Laurel and Hardy fielding the Mets have demonstrated to date.

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And yes, we've all heard by now that Roger Clemens sister thinks she can kick David Wells' ass:

"He better look out for himself in the hallway. She (Clemens' middle sister) might hit him upside the head with a set of car keys. She's pretty upset with him. I'd have to look out for Boomer,"

Ouch.

And if she can't do it, certainly Rocco Graziosa's sister can.