What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I like the color scheme here – but the NY is way too fat and fluffy…..and the Side Patch Mafia have to be stopped. I really don’t want a faded 1986 WS patch on the side. Please stop with the side patches.
Steve Cohen held a boring press conference (at this weird Glove Chair and Mets Table combo straight out of @mediagoon’s Staten Island backyard) and made it clear Buck Showalter will not be fired this season. Cancel the Watch Watch Watch.
Also I am not convinced this is actually Steve. It looks like the kind of doppelgänger that dictators sometimes employ. It sort of looks like Steve but not really.
Steve Cohen says Buck Showalter and Billy Eppler’s jobs are safe for the remainder of the season pic.twitter.com/RAIL8mMH6P
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 28, 2023
While we all wait for Steve Cohen to address the media, the MLB Store posted some Mets 4th of July stuff which isn’t bad but isn’t necessary. Remember when Mets gear was cool and we would buy things? Even @mediagoon doesn’t buy things any more.
They’ve put out wayyyyyyy too much (this is league wide, not Mets-specific) and most of it is garbage.
The New York Post killed the Mets…
Steve Cohen’s highest-paid and minimum earners alike have disappointed and put this team — on pace to win 73 games for the season following Monday’s 2-1 loss to the Brewers — in position to displace the 1992 “Worst Team Money Could Buy” Mets as the flashiest flop in franchise history. It’s a team sitting eight games below .500, with the National League’s fourth-worst record. (via NY Post)
Interestingly the article didn’t throw Buck Showalter under the bus (although the did link to their podcast about firing Buck) so we don’t have to upgrade to a Showalter Watch Watch just yet.
About that….who are you replacing Buck with? Usually you replace the veteran manager with the young manager who “understands the modern ballplayer” and THAT usually coincides with a rebuild.
If you like that idea, let me remind you Mickey Hodges Callaway (the man who Howie Rose compared to Gil Hodges, in a career low point for Howie)
Anyway, here are my thoughts on Buck…
In a shocking development, following a 101 win season, we have a Showalter Watch Watch Watch.
This is NOT a Showalter Watch. Allow me to explain for newer readers…
A Showalter Watch will be when the team is 27 games under .500, they’ve lost 7 in a row, Lindor has mooned the fans on 9/11, the papers have a lot of “one Met said” quotes and we hear that Steve is on his way to Atlanta. This is not that.
A Showalter Watch Watch will be when we look out for a Showalter Watch. That will come a few weeks before, when the Post starts writing articles about how Edgardo Alfonzo could be the next manager and we have the occasional “one Met said” quote. Also GKR will be annoyed they even have to attend the games. This is not that.
Where we are today is a Showalter Watch Watch Watch where we begin to notice the beat getting ornery, which will eventually lead to a Showalter Watch Watch. In hurricane terms this is when the Weather Channel tells you to keep an eye on Tropical Depression 16 off the coast of Africa. This is where we are now, as The Athletic opens the can of worms…
And it’s a consequence of manager Buck Showalter’s not maximizing the resources on hand. (via The Athletic.)
That’s it. One sentence by Tim Britton. Retweeted by Marc Craig. That’s all it takes.
If Craig Carton were still a thing he’d get 4 hours of it. Mad Dog in his prime would get two weeks out of it. Tiki Barber will likely discuss the Raiders options at fullback. But that’s your fault for listening to WFAN this century….grab some podcasts will ya?
Anyway….there was also a little kerfuffle over the weekend when the beat didn’t like Buck’s answer about Tuesday’s starting pitcher. And now….a drip here, a drip there. Weird, right?
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
Eventually Steve will hold a press conference with his new GM and his new field manager and they will tell us how THIS TIME they are going to change the culture so they can win both now, and for a sustained period.
Oh, and the next manager – he’ll be younger so he can connect to “today’s ballplayer.” That won’t work out either, and in 2026 you will get the veteran manager to steady the ship.
