I would not subject any current Met to something like that. If you’re including historical Mets, I’d have to say Jeff Kent or Guillermo Mota.

One time I sat on the beach area outside the Jones Beach ampitheater during a Goo Goo Dolls concert. Luckily I couldn’t hear much. I don’t remember which high-school era love interest put me up to that.

I think going to a Goo Goo Dolls concert with Guillermo Mota might make for some pretty funny web video.

How are we defining “major” here? I’ll use this potentially accurate list, eliminating Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, which obviously don’t count, and Domino’s, which doesn’t seem like it should count. And I’ll say:

1. Taco Bell: Obviously. Best combination of value, taste and general hilarity.
2. Wendy’s: Best burger, best fast-food bacon, high standard of service.
3. KFC: Points for originality, the only fried-chicken place on the list.
4. McDonald’s: Good because it tastes like McDonald’s, not necessarily because it tastes good.
5. Pizza Hut: Bad even in China, elevated here only by breadsticks*, affiliation with Taco Bell.
6. Subway: Offensive to actual sandwich artists.
7. Burger King: It makes me queasy to even think of how to explain why I dislike Burger King.

*- In an absolute emergency situation, the sauce that accompanies Pizza Hut breadsticks makes an OK substitute for taco sauce if they didn’t put any packets in your bag.

Right now it’s the 2010 group and it’s not even really close. I wrote a lot last year about my coming to have faith in Mike Tannenbaum and Rex Ryan and their ability to evaluate and employ NFL talent, and to a large extent that’s still the case.

But here you’re talking about replacing Braylon Edwards, a guy who undoubtedly endured certain lapses but still a 28-year-old physically elite NFL receiver, with a fellow who has spent the last two years in prison. And Mason is 37. I don’t think either Burress or Mason is a bad pickup — Ryan and Tannenbaum have shown they can squeeze value out of older players — but there’s just no way to say they stack up to Edwards and Cotchery without having seen Burress play a down.

I don’t blame the Jets for doing so, of course. And I don’t really understand why it’s such a big story that Rex Ryan keeps hyping up his own players. That’s what Rex Ryan does, and it’s what coaches should do. Maybe Ryan does it with a bit more gusto than most, but the real news would be if he came out and said, “yeah, our receivers don’t look so hot this year.”