The Mets Police

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?

The Mets store was pushing this…for fans of school books with New Era written on them….I guess?  Anyway, TRADE PETE

The VBC, sorry I mean QBC used some Alonsic language to tell us about one of the guests at this year’s Queens Baseball Convention.  I don’t think there will be bowling at this year’s events but there should be.

I hope our asses don’t end up in the jackpot because boy do we have a great first guest to announce. Former Mets Manager Terry Collins.. That’s right Terry Collins. We can’t wait to hear the stories he’s going to tell. So on Saturday December 2, 2023 don’t miss QBC 2023 at the official hotel and venue Four Points Flushing by Sheraton.

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Man, if Matt Harvey did this….

The NY Post (by the way I am convinced the Post has designed their mobile site to discourage anyone from ever trying to use it) reports

Jeff McNeil posted a photo to his Instagram story showing himself along with Alonso, David Peterson, Drew Smith and Tylor Megill inside a suite at Arthur Ashe Stadium to take in the action. The trip was Alonso’s second time over at the Open.

This is no different than attending a Rangers game.  The boys should have been resting, watching game films, and working out.  Instead they are posting on social media and goofing off.

I’m getting a little worried Steve is going to give in to the Mainstream Media who are now writing “extend Pete” articles (because they like him because he feeds the beast and talks to them) – and I am going to have to do this blog for another decade plus because Steve refuses to pawn Pete off on some foolish GM….but then again OUR GM is the one who gave Matt Harvey $11M to pitch for Anaheim, not to mention whatever else went on over there.

Thanks Pete!

Pete reportedly has a $14,500,000 contract this season.   If you do some lazy math and make say $70,000 yourself, this would roughly be like you donating $500 and MLB making a big deal about it (not to mention the tax donation.)