Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

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.

 

 

Wait…was the plan always to have Mets House run until a random Wednesday in June?

The Grand Opening was Friday March 7th.

I do see the Mets posted a month ago that the House had been extended by a month.  So maybe they had a three month lease and extended it a month?  And now its becoming a Spirit Halloween or something?

Are the Mets cutting their losses here?  This all seems very strange.  Why would you only do this project for part of the season?

 

During the Mets losing streak, there were some very ugly posts on social media from Mets fans and national broadcasters related to a rainbow flag being shown on the Jumbotron on Pride Night.

The gist of the posts was that the flag had caused the losing streak…and then insert hate speech here about how the Mets getting what they deserved.

I was very disappointed to see this in many tweets and many Facebook posts.

I also was disappointed in the Mets who have a rainbow icon on the social media posts, but nobody in the organization – not Steve, not Alex, not Francisco, not Pete, not Juan, not Brandon – as far as I can tell nobody addressed it.

Did Gary address it (I haven’t watched an SNY game in some time) the way he did when Daniel Murphy made some homophobic comments?

Pretty ugly, and very under-reported.

Sometimes two people love each other, and sometimes Steve, Alex and David forget to sign enough organizational innings to cover a seven month stretch.  That’s all.  It’s a rainbow.  It’s a losing streak because of a flawed roster.   Stop spreading hate.