Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

When I see kids wearing Mets caps I can only say I’m so sorry…your parents must be major douches…

Gary Cohen surprising me with multiple Gilmore Girls references in the past two weeks.

Jonathan Villar is batting .519 in the last 7 games.

welp, who is going to watch the battle of the old men tonight? over 81 years of experience and leadership!

Double no hitter incoming surely

i'm very excited to listen to the mets broadcast crew today for a couple reasons. first, they're great, and i'm keith hernandez. but more importantly, i figure they will either not talk much at all about the thumbs down stuff, or talk about it briefly or in passing or something. the cardinals announcing team, whoever it is, will talk about it at length and find a way to spend an inning or two on it during each game of the series. somehow, they will have terrible opinions about it, and if jim edmonds is on, he'll have a just bonkers opinions of some sort and will then dan mclaughlin will start to apologize to him for disagreeing but stress that the facts are facts. at this, edmonds will double down and assert his opinion as the truth.

meanwhile over in the mets broadcast they appear to be enjoying a baseball game

, and i'm keith hernandez. but more importantly,

and just like that, hernandez just made a reference to wainwright and hill having 81 years of experience combined. make sense to me!

Love GKR

wow. that third pitch was called a ball.

https://i.imgur.com/oEV3fy1.png

that may place in those end-of-year "worst called strike / worst called ball" articles

for those not catching this game, so far the home plate ump called a pitch thrown near the middle of the zone a ball, the third base umpire called a ball that was at least 6-7 feet fair a foul ball, and the first base umpire's right cheek was smashed by an errant through by SS edmundo sosa. the umpire's attention was completely focused on first base, so he didn't see it coming at all.

i am worried about the final umpire at 2B.

*errant throw*

fuckin waino isn't going to make the hall, but wow he's really been great

Welcome back, Thor.

had no idea it'd been so long

right on time

i'm not against 'moving on from' (hate this euphemism) luis rojas but why in the fuck is sandy alderson still in charge of anything? the mets have gone 817-863 (.486) and made the playoffs twice in 11 seasons since his involvement with them began, and he's seemingly incapable of hiring people who aren't sexual predators

i don't like tlr either but he's at least won some other shit since the 1989 world series

anyway, mets free agents:

syndergaard
conforto
familia
stroman
baez
villar
loup
hand
hill

on the bright side, the return of robinson cano for $24m!!!

I think maybe half of those guys come back? Thor might do the qualifying offer.

Team really does need a manager and management that they can believe in. Cohen can only do so much.

Cohen can only do so much.

I feel like he could stand to do a bit less. All he needs to do is shut up, hire Epstein, and open his wallet.

I meant Cohen can only do so much to inspire confidence, but I also agree he should not be on Twitter and yes, Epstein would be ideal.

Heard that brainiac Cohen decided not to hire Epstein. I presume Sandy is the sticking point.

I'm going on the record that this guy is going to be the Daniel Snyder of the MLB.

i thought it was more that epstein wasn’t interested? either way, not great

I have very low expectations about this search, and am expecting it to go poorly.

amazin

A report that the #Mets have put former #Pirates 1b Dorian Boyland on growing short list led to a pleasant conversation with Boyland who told me no contact with the NYM, no interest in the job. He said he is happy to run his car dealerships.

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 18, 2021

You have to hand it to the Mets. They found a worse owner than the Wilpons.

You could just make these up now and it would be 100% believable. Like, how long before they do a ted lasso and try hiring an Australian cricket coach?!

The Boyland rumor may have actually been made up, but as long as someone can get a lolmets out of it, it’s worth it.

The Mets have already been turned down by a handful of targets in their search for a new baseball operations head. Each of Theo Epstein, Billy Beane, David Stearns, Matt Arnold, Scott Harris and Brandon Gomes had been raised as potential candidates only to later be ruled out of consideration.

Cardinals general manager Michael Girsch can be added to that list, as Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (Twitter link) that New York reached out to the Cards for permission to speak with him last week. Girsch, however, declined to pursue the opportunity, electing to remain in St. Louis instead.

girsch is pretty much a no name in st louis, for what it's worth. so good move to be turned down by him?

is this press (mlb trade rumors) right that the dynamic is these various candidates turning them down? if so, yikes

and bobby valentine lost his race to become mayor of stamford, connecticut

Barves fan here - HAHA

Anyway, here it is, I wish I didn't have to do this pic.twitter.com/h0QcU3k5p6

— Michael Baumann (@MichaelBaumann) November 5, 2021

so boring and predictable

I’m not happy this morning . I’ve never seen such unprofessional behavior exhibited by a player’s agent.I guess words and promises don’t matter.

— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) November 24, 2021

What a fucking baby.

This guy makes Jeff Wilpon look smart.

apparently this is about matz? horrifying that a guy the mets traded away might use them as leverage in free agent negotiations

put that coffee down, steve

He's raging about all these external things and:

1. Sandy Alderson is still involved even though he hired three scumbags for managers/gms.
2. They still don't have a manager.
3. Farm system is still a disaster.

He should probably be thankful Matz didn't give him a chance to outbid the Cards, that deal would've been even more lolmets embarrassing

perhaps, even apart from being sandwiched between aldersons, the mets’ gm opening was so bad and hated because the billionaire owner is micromanaging back-end-of-rotation negotiations

Low threshold these days for what counts as news:

https://www.mlb.com/news/keith-hernandez-mets-jersey-retirement

With the new rule-of-Baines in place, I think it's almost a certainty that he'll eventually get into the HOF via one of the committees: 60.3 bWAR, his years as an announcer, famous Seinfeld episode (crucial to any serious HOF resume). I imagine his cocaine dalliance is long forgotten.

I never knew Dusty Baker was part of that whole episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_drug_trials

would totally go to a game with a PBKR (cheap seats tho!)

perhaps we could even get j mod or m gill or mary j or j crunch

Cool, the more the merrier! I will look at the schedule soon, offer some dates.

Yeah I might be down if the timing works out. I am due for another trip to NYC this summer.

first place

been thinking of our doctor friend this week. i wish nothing but pain for all mets fans but i do miss morbs

I can understand the urge to cheer for this team. But this franchise has literally the worst luck.

they have the worst something but idk if i would say it’s luck

They have angered a moderately powerful genie

been thinking of our doctor friend this week. i wish nothing but pain for all mets fans but i do miss morbs

― J0rdan S., Saturday, April 9, 2022 1:53 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

same :(

I think for at least the 7th year in a row, Mets may have had the greatest potential for both incredible feats and incredible failure. There has been a lot of failure to say the least, and even the good years (‘15, ‘16, ‘19) have been filled with so many rip-your-hair-out-of-your-head moments. Former GM Brodie Van Wagenen literally started throwing chairs at one time.