You know what would make a black Mets cap even cooler, some generic font scribbled on the side!
Black Mets cap….with some scribbles on the side.
Overrun a Citi Field Army with 5 other guys and these caps
We all know how easy it was for Six Padres Fans to take over Citi Field last year during the playoffs (hey it was cold, and people had to work the next day, and besides the buzz was off once the Braves won the division) – so imagine if you tired to take over the outfield seating area dressed in these!
So what you could do it – but 6 of these, and round up 5 of your friends. Head on out to the OF and as soon as the locals see this color hat they will think you are Padres fans during a playoff elimination game – and they will head for the parking lot. Then you and your 5 friends can take over the section and start chanting Let’s Go Mets! And when the Mets strike someone out you can…….clap and not chant anything!
This is a good plan. You should do it!
ESPN Expert: “I can easily see Pete Alonso falling off a cliff similarly to how Ryan Howard did,”
Man, what a great morning!
ESPN’s Paul Hembekides was a guest on Buster Olney’s “ESPN Baseball Tonight” podcast and said….
“I lived this with Ryan Howard. You can’t compare players apples to apples, but I do think there is something instructive in comparing these two profiles just as a cautionary tale.”
“Pete Alonso’s processed-based stats haven’t really improved,” “His swing decisions, his strike zone discernment. We know that he adds no value on the bases. We know that at best, he can fake it at first base.
“We’re talking about a player who can’t add value on the margins.”
“I want to know for sure that he has old-man skills. I don’t know for sure that Pete Alonso has old-man skills … I can easily see Pete Alonso falling off a cliff similarly to how Ryan Howard did,”
Olney said the Mets and Pete are “very, very far apart”
What a great morning!
Steve Cohen’s name came up in a few articles I read about lobbying
A website called Off Plan Property Exchange, which I am unfamiliar with, published an article called New York’s Top Lobbyists Revealed: Real Estate and Gambling Industries Take Center Stage
I was curious so I clicked on it and saw this!
Lobbying efforts also focused on the gambling industry. The state budget included provisions that streamlined the process for authorizing three casino licenses in and around New York City. Some of the companies competing for these licenses, such as SL Green Realty and the Genting Group, were among the top real estate spenders.
Point72 Asset Management, owned by Mets owner Steve Cohen, along with the Seminole Hard Rock, also engaged in lobbying activities for a casino near the team’s stadium. Meanwhile, Silverstein Properties, which recently announced its intention to compete for a gaming license, focused on “strengthening relationships” related to its proposed casino site and other development projects.
and this
– Point72 Asset Management: $727,318 (casinos, affordable housing, mass transportation, Willets Point)
The article sources: Annual Lobbying Activities Report of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics for 2022.
That encouraged me to google “Steve Cohen Lobbying” which brought me to the Times Union which wrote
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen enlisted the recently departed state Budget Director Robert F. Mujica Jr. in his effort to push for a casino near the baseball team’s stadium in Queens.
Mujica was paid $105,000 over a five-month period for consulting services, according to new lobbying filings. The monthly installments were made weeks after Mujica left his state position and months after Cohen’s group had lobbied the longtime budget director about its casino plans.
Cohen’s group advocating for the casino plan, “New Green Willets,” said Mujica is not a lobbyist for them and the work he is doing is “strategic advice” that’s in line with state regulations.
That’s interesting. Then I kept reading and saw the Times Union wrote this:
State employees are banned from lobbying their former agency for two years after their employment ends; there is a lifetime ban on work related to matters they directly were involved in while working for the state.
Government watchdogs said the type of work Mujica is doing is in a murky area of the law.
Anyway, that’s what I read this morning. What have you been reading?
Mets store really excited about school books or something
The Mets store was pushing this…for fans of school books with New Era written on them….I guess? Anyway, TRADE PETE
