New Era needs to admit they have run out of ideas. Here is proof.
Today in Stupid Mets Caps: The Cloud Cap
Coronavirus Filler: The 1976 Mets Yearbook
If you weren’t around for the Bicentennial you have NO IDEA how big it was and how much it infiltrated the culture. EVERYTHING was colonial this, bicentennial this. EVERYTHING. Maybe you’ll see a version in 2026.
Best Mets By Number: 44
I still can’t believe I am doing this series “in-season” as this would be great winter filler. But bloggers get desperate.
As for 44, what an interesting number. Ron Darling? Hojo? Jay Payton? Isringhausen?
Nope, how about this guy.
Mickey Callaway won 86 games and the Mets fired him
While I wasn’t the biggest fan of Mickey Hodges Callaway, every now and then my brain remembers that the Mets fired him because……um……let’s take a look.
At Catcher, Wilson Ramos his .288 with 14 HRs. So that’s not an issue (and good job Mr. GM)
At 1B, I guess I could scold Mickey for not teaching Vulgar Pete Alonso how to be more like Wright and Jeter and less like Matt Harvey (it is spelled LGM Peter) – but the rookie was well integrated into the team. Good job Mickey.
At 2B – Cano was a disaster. While we’re on the subject, the two problems with the team were Cano and Diaz. Whose fault is that?
SS and 3B – Rosario and Lyin’ Todd Frazier were fine.
McNeil, JD Davis (good job Mr. GM)…all fine.
JDG won two CYA in two years under Mickey. The Five Four Aces all won 10+. Nobody was amazing (well JDG did win the CYA) but nobody was a disaster.
The bullpen? Diaz was a closer. I don’t worry about middle relievers. A team could go 150-12 and will still have bullpen issues.
The Mets were 33-21 after August 1. There were 17-9 (.654) in September.
It seems (from my couch) like he had a nice clubhouse.
So what was the problem? Does this really come down to that he lost his cool with a guy named Tim and the rest of the beat poisoned the well?
Why did they get rid of this guy? Isn’t the job to keep a calm clubhouse….integrate rookies….get performance out of players? The only players he DIDN’T get a performance out of were the two involved with the albatross Cani-Diaz deal.
I don’t get it.
Where will MLB get all these COVID-19 tests from?
Hey I know you really want to watch TV at night, but here’s a question from A’s pitcher Jake Diekman. The bold is mine.
“I want to play just the same as anyone, otherwise I wouldn’t be throwing and working out,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But if they’re going to test us all the time, are we taking tests from people who really need it?
“I don’t want us to get tested every other day and basically snake all these tests because they want to put on MLB, and yet let’s say the hospitals in Oakland, we’re borrowing theirs, if 50 people a day can get tested but it would be 100 if we weren’t taking them.” (via Reuters)
That is a really good question. Where WILL all these tests come from? Can I have one? Can I have one every few days? Why are we diverting these to a baseball team?
Seriously, where will MLB be getting these from, and is it the best use of tests. I’d love it if EVERYONE could get tested, but a certain someone told us 15 cases would be down to zero and everything was going to open up by Easter….so we wasted time at the start and we still haven’t tested everyone.
But hey mistakes happen and we don’t have a time machine. Here and now, where will MLB get these tests from? I’d really like to know. Baseball just isn’t that important.