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If you've been following the long, strange trip of the New York Mets this season, you know what a tangled, complicated world the front offices of Major League Baseball can be. You understand the frustrations, the egos, the outbursts, and the Machiavellian maneuvering. If you haven't been following the Mets, let me catch you up: "They are the Mets, only they got really bad sooner."

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As we reported on Friday, the Braves traded an under-performing outfielder, Jeff Francoeur, to the Mets for an under-performing outfielder, Ryan Church. My theory? The general managers were just bored. Saturday's Dugout is after the jump.

...step right up and EAT the Mets!

Earlier today, blogsmith Dan Graziano (Dugout screen name: LeavesOfGraz) web logged about visiting Citi Field, the new home of the New York Mets, and reported back that all of the stadium's food is limp-wristed in nature. Excuse me, "limp-wristed in nurture." But no, the food has a faux-hawk and thinks its better than us, and I for one am not going to stand for it! I will not be attending a Mets game this season out of protest (also, I live in Ohio)!

I hope Citi Field has a big slogan on the outfield wall reading "THE STRENGTH TO EAT THERE." Tonight's Dugout is after the jump.

How many seasons have we played here? What year is it? These questions and more are answered in the Citi Field Inaugural Season 2009 patch, to be worn next season by the New York Mets! All you have to do is turn your head slightly and all is revealed.

The Orioles get the swank old logo/Maryland flag ultimate mashup patch, the Yankees get their arches, and the Mets get a Zippo from Cafe Press. Look at that thing. It's just infuriating, isn't it? Is it a diamond with a dugout? Is it a sideways rectangle? If the words in the blue are horizontal, why is the year diagonal? Did that stoner kid from the design your own video games commercial get an office job with Major League Baseball? Why do I suddenly want to kill my family?

Come for the depressing baseball team, stay for Mike Westfall's hilarious photoshop work. This morning's Dugout is after the jump.

The consensus opinion of Gary Carter's recently highlighted failure to obtain a major-league managerial job is that he's advertised himself too enthusiastically.

But Gary smells a rat, and I'm with him on this. Baseball has clearly colluded to blackball Gary Carter. Yes, that's right. General managers and owners sit in a smoke-filled room as we speak, unscrupulously grasping at schemes to protect their sport from a really good catcher from the 1980s.

Today's Dugout is after the jump.

As reported far too early in the morning by our Matt Watson, the Mets decided to can manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson, and first base coach Tom Nieto.

The name "Tom Nieto" ranks above "Oil Can Boyd" and below "Urban Shocker" on the list of greatest baseball names ever. I could never fire a man named Tom Nieto, were he in my employ as a dishwasher, plumber, nurse or attorney. I'd bring him into my office, say his name aloud, start laughing, and send him back to work with a smile.

I don't know. Maybe first base coach Tom Nieto was really bad at looking at a ball in play and judging whether it was appropriate for the runner to take an extra base. What? How can someone be bad at that? There are so many things I don't know.

Today's Dugout is after the jump.