Good stuff here…read the whole thing (I excerpted the part about me of course). I missed this, and have missed a lot of things, as you can imagine my inbox got quite full following VB Day.
(Last week’s) press conference celebrating the 50th anniversary celebrations by the New York Mets seemed to produce two disparate reactions. On the one hand, Shannon Shark, who has been a forceful advocate for fan-friendly gestures like a return of Banner Day and eliminating black as a team color, wrote eloquently about what the day meant to him. On the other, Steve Popper wrote a detailed column speculating that such moves might not make up for the recent mistakes of the team in the eyes of the fan base at large, or ameliorate the decision to cut salary. And many on Twitter criticized both Popper’s column and the opening question of Richard Sandomir of The New York Times, who asked about how this initiative fit with the overall difficulties of the franchise.