I realized I hadn’t written-written in about a week or so. If you’re a regular reader you know I go in waves of getting obsessed with something, or on a crusade, but at other times I’ll just go the alternate caps route and post that kind of stuff. I like posting all of it, but figured today I would throw around some words and get a discussion started.
Calm the hell down. This one is addressed at the folks on twitter. Twitter has become the homeland of negativity. Every other post is some sort of insane Wilpon rage. I understand Wilpon rage, but some folks are KrazyTown about it. Either Fred will own the team or he won’t. Report back to me at the end of the story. As Carly Simon sang, “You probably think this post is about you.”
As I have written before I think you’re going to be dealing with Jeff Wilpon for another 30 years so you might as well move on. I don’t know what happened with Madoff, neither do you. There’s some pretty good and interesting reporting going on out there, but the folks on twitter need to chillax until its all said and done. Oh, and I love tweeting “Stupid Wilpons” in most tweets. I’m mocking you when I do that.
Sandy Alderson Conspiracy Theory. This one is mine. Is there a possibility that Sandy wants the Wilpons (and Katz, never forget Katz) to get annoyed at his jokes and kick him out? Under my conspiracy theory Sandy is so distraught at the financial situation that he knows that he can’t field a competitive team, and rather than be at the helm of a disaster he’d rather the Mets fire him for cracking jokes on twitter. Under such a scenario the fanbase would go all Stupid Wilpons and Sandy would escape as the hero. If he stays and wins 54 games (is it as many as 54, some tweets have them winning 37 I think) then the mystique and aura is gone from his persona.
The problem with my conspiracy theory is that it’s not marine-like to try and get out like that. Fight the good fight with honor, no? So I don’t even believe my own Sandy conspiracy theory, but some of you on twitter will. Run with it. Stupid Wilpons.
What I can’t reconcile is Sandy’s public persona with the man tweeting. I just can’t picture him sitting in his car with his iPhone chuckling to himself when he tweets (this is yesterday): Will have to drive carefully on trip; Mets only reimburse for gas at a downhill rate. Will try to coast all the way to FL.
Even though the Mets confirm its him, it’s like…well my head explodes…I don’t know what it’s like. Is he really cracking gas jokes?
#sandyforsnl by the way. Tweet it.
Katz. Saul B. Katz is Co-Founder and President of Sterling Equities. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Katz directs Sterling’s day-to-day real estate operations. Mr. Katz also presides over Sterling’s non-real estate affiliates and subsidiary companies, which range from financial institutions to manufacturing, consulting, entertainment and retailing enterprises. Mr. Katz is President of the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Cyclones.
My All Star Game worry. I know Adam Rubin basically told me to shut up (that tweet was at me, right?) but even though that I know that you know that I know that we all know that the All Star Game is going to be at Citi Field in 2013 the fact is that it hasn’t been announced.
Why not?
I could make up another conspiracy theory but here’s a no-look pass to Howard Megdal. Nobody else wants to grab this one – all yours Howard.
Or maybe MLB just wanted to let the Giants have their day in the sun. Eventually this one is a story though. Remember the fat kooky guy who brought this up.
Your blog post about the disasters to come. This year they are actually going to play the season. When you see that Santana can’t throw then write about it. When you see Ike Davis actually can’t hit then write about it. Ditto Wright and his power and Murph and his glove and whatever Tejada did wrong other than being born and not named Jose. Until some baseball is played take your negativity and stick it in your blue cap.
Oh, and calm the hell down. See you on twitter. I’m @metspolice
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That ‘stupid Wilpons’ thing – not working so much!
It would, if the object of the ironic patter were, you know, not so incompetent and the situation not so dire in Metsland. And no one’s actually blaming the Wilpons for anything outside of their purview.
So it’s non-ironic irony – especially since the Wilpon situation is, if anything, over-reported … so that every single informed Mets fan can indeed see the forest for the trees. So I have to say, no one’s feeling particularly mocked.
the mockers are laughing, whether or not the mocked get it.
If the mocked got it, Sandy Alderson wouldn’t have created his twitter account.
Much as I love you guys, you’ve got the roles of mockers/mocked reversed here – when the you the “Wilpons” thing it feels like you’re casting irony outward from a very small club of insiders. But it doesn’t really work that way. For that kind of campaign to work, you have to be in the majority….