Ceetar

no one should care what a war criminal thinks though.

The Mets do have at least one big incentive to bring back Baez, Stroman, and Conforto - If the Mets sign someone else's free agent who received a qualifying offer, they lose their second pick in the draft. Not their second round pick, but their second first round pick (they have the compensation pick for the Rocker fiasco) This is extremely disturbing, as at least Cohen is on record publicly talking about "the value" of the pick, and the justification for not signing the guy last year. If you're on that train, it seems you'd have to at least be considering NOT signing someone that would cost that pick. Which is problematic given how many holes the Mets have, and doubly so if the solution is just give Javy a few extra million to save that pick evne though you need better players.

you gotta be hella republican..err, discriminatory to not even put out a mostly meaningless rote PR tweet.

=duan post_id=80045 time=1634831993 user_id=99] =Ceetar post_id=80019 time=1634740340 user_id=102] Breaking: Guy will sign if he gets the offer he wants.

Breaking: Guy will sign if he gets the offer he wants.

maybe they can buckle down and do the research and vetting to find someone that's not already a tried and true flashy GM?

that moment probably rivals Pratt's HR for "top of the heap" moments at a game. I actually didn't hear the call or see it on TV for a long long time. I think the call of the game was part of the loading screen of MLB The Show in 2007, that's probably when I first heard Gary Cohen's call.

I don't think I have a strong preference. They're both fine. Red Sox probably annoys yankee fans more so there's that.

nobody's bothered to learn the new trainer's name is all.

Did not jibing with leadership on workout routines play in? I love when people use "jibe" or "jibing" correctly. You wouldn't believe how often I see it as "jive" or "jiving". i just tell myself "the one you want is wrong, you want the other one" This is also how I differentiate the _ from the - on mobile.

I was 4 at the time, so who knows, but as the years go on it seems pretty clear to me that the '86 Mets were excellent ballplayers who constantly got in their own way. Things just fell right in '86, but there's no need to 1:1 a clubhouse from 2021 to 1986. We've made some of those guys into archetypes of 'clubhouse chemistry' that probably didn't even apply to them at the time. They didn't perform fury for pre-game media? bit whoop. I don't know what, if there was even a singular thing, that made this all go wrong this year, but it wasn't that. Did not jibing with leadership on workout routines play in? perhaps. Not taking simple medical advice to keep teammates safe and allow them to see their families and friends more is "everyone getting along"? Nevermind whatever you may or may not believe about McNeil and Lindor.

Greta Thunberg.

Chad ochoseis wrote: Lindor was OK for the second half, though still not the guy we paid $341M for. he had a 118 wRC+ in the second half. He has a career 117 wRC+. Only 158 PA though. He just had a slow start. It's a game of inches as they say. Early on the pitching was ON, particularly because of deGrom, and the stunted offense was just good enough, and the bullpen just good enough, to hold those leads. Some of that was probably just luck, they put the right relievers in. They DIDN'T give up the home runs. (did the ball change? you never know with this stuff) Diaz for example, had pretty consistent numbers, but he didn't give up any home runs in the first half, and gave up a few in the second half. First half splits .219/.313/.266 and second half .161/.271/.312. And just due to luck of timing (or if you want to get into his 'clutchness or whatever', I don't) some of those home runs tied the game, or gave it up. The blueprint for success was there at the trading deadline though, and they just didn't follow through. Rojas didn't have the players to be successful and didn't maximize what he had, and that made it worse. It's absurd to plan to play Kevin Pillar who doesn't get on base AND make a guy like Baez, who doesn't get on base enough, your acquisition.

Lenny's got the personality pop that Cohen is attracted to, so don't rule it out!

Ryan Zimmerman

anyone that's actually _in_ the clubhouse has an idea. including his bosses. Most of the stuff is outside reporter or fan visibility, but there's no indication that he did those things well either.

=smg58 post_id=79222 time=1633369344 user_id=62] So what do I need to do?

okay, so I'm done with fantasy. I just can't bring myself to pay attention, just have too much other stuff to think about. Who wants to be commissioner?

no. win. None of this nonsense "well, if we build a good system in a few years maybe we'll be able to be regularly competitive" They have some ground to makeup since they failed last offseason, but you gotta keep Conforto, sign Castellanos. Keep Thor and Stroman, and then STILL sign a few "veteran starters on make-good deals" like Hill perhaps? The Mets have major league 'parts' that perhaps they could use in a trade too, in Davis and McNeil, and lesser so Smith if you could convince someone to pay pre 2021 value for him. There's some maneuverability there, if someone's willing to try.

=stevejrogers post_id=79028 time=1633108557 user_id=57] Early in the season, I forget if it was here or not, I was coming up with reasoning for the permanent closures of the external eateries at Citi Field (McFadden's and the Mikkeller taproom). So I commented about needing to be staffed for at least 81 days from April through September and at most 12 postseason dates as being the only times of getting heavy foot traffic.

=Fman99 post_id=79018 time=1633099521 user_id=86] I would love to see Edgardo get a shot. No one's ever explained to me how it is that he got drummed out of the organization after helping the Cyclones win a league pennant in 2019.

The previous regime's second choice for manager who's team has underperformed expectations two years in a row. Yeah, I'm sure there's a debate to be had about THAT guy. Can't imagine why the fans want THAT guy gone. Oh, so fickle, us fans. This is clearly why we need beat writers, to put bad managers in perspective.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Gotta say, the Mets have been trying to connect with younger fans... mostly high-spending. High-lifetime-value young families ... but childish between innings stunts aren't getting it done. I've arrived at the park, by the way yes, we all saw you miss that home run.

I've long been a proponent of ditching the promenade club and turning it into an open-air bar with standing room views of the field. Other good locations for that is to flatten the LF prom OF seats that are garbage, or something above the Mets offices behind the bridge, next to the porch. That'd be expensive though, because you might ahve to muck with the scoreboards. Honestly I think they should try to connect the RF and LF upper decks in a way that allows visibility to the field. That aside, I read this WSJ as mostly a way to push Cohen's investment in Range, and expand the Mets media stuff. Expect their artists/musicians to start appearing at Citi Field more, or co-branded advertising anyway. Expect more "Official steak of the NYM" in the store or something?

Maybe this is my own failing, I just assumed the guy they hired who was harassing women was the one they were firing. That seems NOT to be the case.