The Mets Police

Hey you know that famous politician?  The one that takes credit for everything and never takes any blame?   Based on his X account, Steve is reminding me of that kind of guy.   The guy who disappears for weeks at a time when the team isn’t doing well, suddenly has a working phone to check in with us.

It would be just as easy to do this after every game, or most games, or during a losing streak.

And who are these Fab Four, and we’re not calling them that.  If it includes Vulgar Pete and the guy who disrespected Mets fans…no thanks Steve.  I’ve waited 40 years, I can easily wait those guys out.

Check in all the time or not at all.  Don’t just show up the one time things go right.  That’s not leadership.

PETE ALONSO & EDWIN DĺAZ JOIN FRANCISCO LINDOR ON NL ALL-STAR TEAM

 FLUSHING, N.Y., July 6, 2025 – Major Leage Baseball today announced that first baseman Vulgar Pete Alonso and RHP Edwin Díaz will join starting shortstop Francisco Lindor (best known for giving a thumbs down to Mets fans, never forget, never forgive) on the National League All-Star team. The 95^thAll-Star Game will take place on Tuesday, July 15 in Atlanta.

Vulgar Pete was named to the All-Star team for the fifth time in his career, the most by any first baseman in team history – two more than Keith Hernandez which is a really weird thing for the Mets to brag about in their press release.

Alonso becomes the sixth player in franchise history to be named to five or more All-Star teams, joining Tom Seaver (nine), David Wright (seven), Mike Piazza (seven), Darryl Strawberry (seven) and Carlos Beltrán (five).

Díaz was named to an All-Star team for the third time in his career and second as a member of the Mets (also in 2022). He was an American League All-Star in 2018 with Seattle.

Lindor was announced as the National League starting shortstop on July 2. Lindor will make his first trip to the Midsummer Classic as a member of the Mets and his fifth overall after making four straight American League All-Star teams with Cleveland from 2016-19.  He was a jerk to the fans.

Lindor will become the third Mets shortstop to start for the National League, joining Buddy Harrelson (1971) and José Reyes (2007). Reyes was named a starter in 2011, but was injured and didn’t start.

TERRELL: Chekov, who is this man?

KHAN: Captain! Captain! Save your strength. These people have been Mets fans since before you were born.   Do you mean he never told you the tale? To amuse your Captain? No? Never told you how the Cohens bought the Mets and said they would be disappointed if they did not win a championship in three to five years?

TERRELL: I’ve never even met Uncle Steve.

KHAN: Uncle?  Uncle.  Uncle…Never told you how Uncle Steve promised to turn the Mets into a winning franchise..only to collapse in June.

CHEKOV: You lie! In Twenty Twenty Five there was a fair chance.

KHAN: This is Twenty Twenty Five!!!!!. .. You thought this was Nineteen Eighty Six!   Nineteen Eighty Six exploded when Gooden didn’t show up for the parade.   The shock shifted the course of the franchise and everything was laid waste.  Uncle Steve …never bothered to sign enough organizational innings to cover seven months of baseball.

CHEKOV: Uncle Steve was only doing his duty!

The impossible has happened!  Mets co-owner Steve Cohen tweeted during a Mets losing streak!  This almost never happens.  Let’s see what he had to say…

Fair enough.  Always good to hear from you Steve.   You probably should just check in every day as it’s likely you pick up your phone sometimes and/or check the Mets score.

Also, your team doesn’t have enough organizational innings to make it until Halloween.   Holmes is a ticking time bomb.  You don’t go from 60 innings to 240+.

Oh, and one more thing.  This is Year 5.  NO EXCUSES.

 

For newer readers:

A Manager Watch means the sharks are circling.

A Manager Watch Watch Watch means that the articles have really heated up.

This is a Watch Watch Watch, which in hurricane terms, is like reporting on a coastal disturbance off the coast of Africa that could maybe turn into something but is nothing to worry about right now.

But this slide does warrant a looksie.

Now I have previously stated let’s just let Mendoza be manager for life.  Sign hi to a lifetime deal.  Players like him, media likes him, seems like a good dude, and he can handle NYC.

Furthermore, he’s not the idiot that didn’t sign enough organizational innings depth. That’s on David and the Mets owners Steve and Alex Cohen….and I’ve been saying this is the team’s fatal flaw since February.

Anyway, Sean Fennessy of The Ringer has tweeted:

This will be an interesting stretch for Carlos Mendoza and David Stearns, leading up to the trade deadline. They have yet to face an old-school aggrieved Mets fan base dissecting every single decision all summer.

Both have done so much right so far, but there’s no denying how flawed this team is and how high expectations are given the payroll, Soto’s arrival, the perception of Stearns’ philosophy.

There won’t be any free passes despite last year’s magical run. They’re going to get roasted for the next couple weeks. A few injuries have revealed an absence of depth, a curious approach to free agency, an overconfidence in young players, and a major failure to develop starting pitching in the past decade.

It felt like an 86-win team to me in March and that’s roughly how they’ve looked in June—beating up on bad teams, outclassed by good ones. The exciting names in the farm system being slightly misaligned with the core group of talent, which is effectively in its late prime, is a riddle that I’m not sure Stearns can solve without a couple of dramatic changes we’re not considering. Will they happen? I’d guess they’ll stay the course this season. But maybe not…

And hey look – baseball is a lot easier when the schedule gives you a week of Rockies/White Sox/Rockies….and some A’s thrown in.

My take: There’s no reason to get rid of this guy, no hair apparent, and no obvious “veteran manager” solution so leave the guy alone and put the blame where it belongs: David, Steve and Alex.

This is Year 5 of Steve Cohen’s 3 to 5 year plan.  No Excuses Steve.  No Excuses.  There are two scenarios:  Ring or Failure.

And don’t “Wild Card” me.  We didn’t get rid of the Wilpons to compete for the Wild Card.