A culture of winning

[RealityChuck]

Interesting article on how the Mets built a culture of winning. It ties in with why they were able to get Cespedes -- players love to play for the Mets, something we saw even before the team got hot last year.

[batmagadanleadoff]

RealityChuck wrote: Interesting article on how the Mets built a culture of winning. It ties in with why they were able to get Cespedes -- players love to play for the Mets, something we saw even before the team got hot last year.

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Doesn't every developmentally disabled Mets fan get to throw out a first pitch? /rolls eyes

Nice shot of the ugly scoreboards. (And they're so close together).

Maybe it's the Mets that should adopt "We Are Family" as a theme song.

[Lefty Specialist]

Sorry Forbes, I'm not turning off my AdBlocker.

[Centerfield]

It's kind of a strange article. It jumps, somewhat awkwardly, between the Mets and his role as a CEO. It seems to lay out some ideas, but lacks an overall point. And as such ends up being just a bunch of cliches and platitudes.

I like this part though.

Reiss: How did the Mets end up with perhaps the greatest group of young homegrown pitchers of this baseball era? McCann: If, as they say, baseball is all about pitching, then building a winning team is all about planning. You need to have a plan and you need to stick to that plan. And the Mets have had a long term plan to build a core of great, young pitchers that they could then build a team around. The team’s front office is filled with some really talented baseball minds. They’re focused, very analytical and willing to take the heat from the media – and a sometimes impatient fan base – to build a winning culture and organization.

Great. So it was the fearless and innovative Harvard minds working together to create that rotation?

Well, actually most of it was put together by their likeable but mostly in-over-his-head predecessor who had trouble putting coherent words together to form a sentence.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ok, so who at Sterling LLC is Robert Reiss married or related to?

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: Ok, so who at Sterling LLC is Robert Reiss married or related to?

Nobody. He's an obscenely privileged dude who owns 1-800-FLOWERS and who had enough money to buy one of those Mets shares the team sold off a few years ago when they gave up 49% of the team. And the reason that the Mets are so family oriented, other than because he simply says so, is because the Mets let his son throw out a first pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Reiss: How did the Mets end up with perhaps the greatest group of young homegrown pitchers of this baseball era? McCann: Well, considering I own about 2.5% of the team, and those players were all acquired and developed before I made that powerless purchase, there are easily five thousand people more qualified to answer that. Probably a lot more. But I'll TELL you how...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He was a Madoff investor too, iirc, that might be their link.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I meant Jim McCann, but ya'll knew that by now...