I’m on social media an unhealthy amount and I have yet to run into one person who was offended by this tweet.
It’s a story because it was deleted. I don’t know why it was deleted (the Mets asked Matt?) and I don’t know why Matt decided to get off twitter. Nobody was offended.
Have you guys heard of the 1986 Mets? Beloved.
Can you imagine the scandal if we found out the captain of the Mets left the dugout during a World Series game and was drinking a beer? That guy would never be beloved, right? Wrong. We wax poetic about the fistfights and the quirks of our captain.
Matt has a personality. It is something this team has lacked since…I dunno Pedro and Reyes? There is no swagger. Just losing to middling baseball. We got shut out, oh well, we’ll get them next time.
Matt you keep on giving the finger to Tommy John surgery. Keep dating models and attending hockey games. You aren’t going to be Jeter. That’s now who you are. Be Joe Namath.
There’s one thing about being Joe Namath though. You can date the models and talk smack but you have to bring the championship home. See you in six months.
Bet you dollars vs. doughnuts that Fred Wilpon had more to say about this Tweet than he did about finding a shortstop this past winter.
If you’ve read The Worst Team Money Can Buy and have observed the nature of the team since, it’s pretty easy to understand that the lack of personality & swagger is by design. Ownership detests such things. A couple of guys’ behavior got out of hand back in the early ’90s, and the organization responded by saying, “never again” and neutering its roster at every opportunity. Harvey is going to be the next victim of this baby-with-the-bathwater mindset.