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It depends on how the word “established” is being used. It was Ben Grimm’s post that said Stengel had “a big part of establishing the Mets.” If “established” means “created” or “in existence” then the post is accurate: New York was awarded a National League franchise and the Metropolitan Baseball Club was created well before Stengel was hired, and he didn’t have a role in “establishing” the team. If “established” means “well-known” or “prominent” or “of or relating to a set standard,” then it’s a different analysis.

There is a lesson to be learned about overreaction in the face of tragedy. Hodges’ number was retired shortly after his sudden passing. With a little more hindsight, that might not have happened. The Mets were hardly the only team that have had such retirements: see, e.g., Jim Umbricht of the Astros; Jim Gilliam of the Dodgers.

If Tong is going to start games, it is a very head-scratching move that this roster transaction happened today. Sure, Kimbrel’s not good, but if today’s game goes into extras and the Mets are a pitcher short… Or is Tong going to be a reliever?

How, exactly? The club was long established before Stengel was ever hired. The credit there goes to Bill Shea and Joan Payson…not Stengel. The Mets were a laughingstock their first season. And their second. And their third. I guess Stengel helped sell tickets because he was a well-known figure and a good self-promoter?

Hodges absolutely was the winningest and most important* manager in club history when his number was retired. Was it premature to do so in 1973? Maybe. A totally different category than retiring Stengel’s number, which was dumb from day 1. The funny thing of course is that they did number retirements perfectly for the next 45 years! You got your number retired if you were elected to the HOF (primarily) for your Mets accomplishments. It was a special level of honor, easily distinguishable from the Mets HOF or any other random thing. They even handled the 24 thing well in my view: it’s not retired, but it was only given out selectively to players who earned it (eg Rickey). And then in 2019 the Wilpons screwed it all up by retiring Koosman’s number. (The retirement didn’t happen until 2021, but the flood of new retirements was a Wilpon initiative). Yes, Cohen should have done more to halt it but he didn’t start it. —- *A decent argument can be made that he’s still the most important manager in team history.

Not at all. The jerk here is Howie Rose, who unfortunately has developed a wee too bit of main character syndrome in recent years, thinking he presumes to speak for all Mets fans, whole also revealing himself as a not particularly savvy user of social media.

Howie presuming to speak for “most” Mets fans by reading Twitter…is embarrassing for everyone involved.

Morabito was drafted in 2022 and Ewing in 2023, under Eppler’s tenure. Both drafted out of high school. Benge was drafted in 2024 under Stearns’ tenure, out of college.

There are too many Francisco Lindor games overall, but there is one Francisco Lindor Subway Series Game of course. There are also a couple eponymous games from the postseason too.

Gary Cohen with the double “outta here” home run call for the first time since August 2019.

Cockfighting came up in 2008 when video emerged of then-Met Pedro Martinez at a cockfight in 2006. Mets stated they did not condone animal cruelty but noted that in some countries, such as the D.R., it is legal and part of the culture. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3234767 As for Diaz, he gave a quote to a Puerto Rican newspaper suggesting that he thought it is legal in P.R. (which it is not).

Either bone, looking at 3 months before he’d pitch in an MLB game. Decent chance he’s done for the year.

Rare day game at the ballpark for me. AJ Hinch got ejected after the play at third which to my eyes was clearly one that should have been overturned. Of course arguing with the field umpires after a replay call might seem pointless, but all the umpires do a shift in the replace center during the season, and when it’s so clearly wrong, I can see some value in remaining the ump here that you expect better from him when it’s his turn there. Ewing’s homer was pretty. 7 more wins to go to reach .500 …

Aside from Mendoza — isn’t this exactly what happened between 2025 and 2026? Coaching staff was changed top to bottom. Massive changes in the clubhouse. Big new free agents coming in, other longstanding players leaving. That is not at all a stick-to-the-line approach. I agree Mendoza should be fired (and should have been fired several weeks ago). And sure, Paul Blackburn sucked (I agree), but he was something like the #9 starter entering 2025, and the few million bucks he got from the Mets were a rounding error for the team/Cohen. I also don’t think JD Martinez was half as good on the field as you credit him for. I find myself sympathetic to Stearns’ situation because: (1) he came into a team that had just gone through 5 GMs in the prior 7 seasons, and for the 7 or 8 seasons prior to that had been on an austerity budget. That’s a long time for an organization to be run badly. Seems logical that it’s pretty hard to develop an organizational philosophy, improve talent evaluation/ development/ etc. with constant turnover. (2) Plenty of success with Milwaukee. I suspect I’d have less patience if he didn’t have a track record. (3) Stearns has mostly been handing a roster that others built. The 2024 team largely existed before he showed up (and, if Stearns is getting dinged for Blackburn or Martinez, he has to also get credit for singing Jose Iglesias to a minor league deal and having him available — the singular change that saved the 2024 season in my view). The 2025 team was a mix of Stearns acquisitions and old-guard, and by 2026 it’s actually his team. (4) Stearns didn’t make Bichette bad, Lindor bad/hurt, or Soto hurt.

It’s complete lazy bullshit, something invented because it’s easy to lash out when the team underperforms. And, apparently, people feel threatened by those who are younger than them (hence all the ridiculous/repeated complaints about him being young). —- Firing Stearns mid-season is dumb because it won’t fix the team this year and has all sorts of potential negative side effects (there’s a draft coming up, it makes Cohen look impetuous and thus harder to find a good replacement, etc). Centerfield brings up an interesting counterpoint, about whether Stearns should be in charge of deadline trades. Aside from generalized anger/disappointment at the team’s performance this year, I’m not sure what the support is for the idea that he can’t do that effectively. I also don’t think there’s a lot to do at the deadline. The Mets have what, 3 tradeable assets? Peralta, Holmes, and Raley, all on expiring contracts? No GM is coming back with a big haul from that.

Also vote to eliminate it! Sidenote, thanks for the efforts and soliciting of feedback to get us up and running here.

I think it’s to keep it a 1:1 substitution. Baty to first, Bichette to third, Brujan to short for the bottom of the tenth.

The gist is that (1) the focus on defense and positioning is a big part of the long-term decline in batting average, combined with (2) different hitting strategies (better to hit it in the air than on the ground). There was a one-year uptick in batting average after the shift was banned but those two long-term trends have not changed.

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Am I missing something?

Hey, there’s the value Semien’s supposed to be bringing to the team.

Except they’re not paying for the in-market games. MLB.tv has always been advertised as providing access to out-of-market games only. if MASN would sell them in-market streaming (the way SNY does) then they’d have easier access to those 17 games. (This clarification is not an endorsement of MLB’s broadcast strategy.

People care what Curt Schilling says? Really?

SNY started in-market streaming last year through the MLB.tv app….seems like something any other network could do too.

First thing that comes to mind re: Sterling is that he was on the call in the legendary July 4, 1985 game that the Mets won in 19 innings.