The Mets made an offer to free agent Jason Bay weeks ago, but the outfielder is still mulling things over. The market hasn't played out as expected for guys like Bay and Matt Holliday and Joel Sherman of the New York Daily News writes that it may be time for the Mets to give Bay a deadline. "The Mets are losing their dignity ? whatever is left of that ? waiting around for this type of player. So they need to regain some of that. In other words patience is out. It is time to tell Bay he has 24 hours to accept what is almost certainly the top offer on the market, and if not the Mets need to move on. But this can't be a bluff. The Mets have to have another move in place whether it is Cust or Johnny Damon or Jermaine Dye or Mark DeRosa. They can?t leave it that Bay could come back three days later and accept the deal or else they will just further the perception they could be pushed around," Sherman writes.