Mr. Wilpon, Tear Down That Sign.-Vecsey, NY Times

(NY Times): "As Citigroup grovels for a bailout from public funds, the Mets insist the name will not change. Not to give free publicity to these jokers, but as of this moment, the new stadium is still Citi Field....

• We are paying for the government subsidy — socialism at the top —

• so that this failing institution can keep its name on the Flushing skyline where Serval Zipper once stood so proudly....

Yet Citigroup is still under contract to pay $20 million a year for the next 20 years to subsidize the bullpen that launched dozens of late-inning defeats in the past two years. We are enablers all around.

• New ballparks are a source of amusement in the Bronx as well as in Queens. It was recently reported that the Bloomberg administration had bargained 250 extra parking spaces to the Yankees in exchange for a larger luxury box and free food for the high-profile schnorrers from City Hall....

Lately, Mets fans have endured two hideous Septembers, which, in a weird way, makes Citigroup and the Mets ideal partners — “both entities had collapses,” (City Council member) Oddo said. ...

• The first step is the name. The Mets can do without the $20 million a year,

• since all they would do with the loot is recruit some other ghastly bullpen.

• Better they start all over, on the cheap,

• like the rest of us are learning to do.

With apologies to Ronald Reagan: Mr. Wilpon, tear down this sign."

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