What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Interesting stuff from Keith Hernandez….
“Look at what the Phoenix Suns just sold for — $4 billion,” Hernandez continued. “What does that make the Mets worth? If he wants to sell five years down the road if he’s got his world championship and wants to sell, what’s he going to sell it for in five years? $10 [billion]? $15 billion? He’s going to hang on to it until he gets his winner and then we’ll see if he wants to stay in, but he is not going to lose money. He will make an ‘astounding’ profit on his investment.” (via Yardbarker)
Wouldn’t it be something if Steve did cash out….and still owned the casino on the parkland. At least according to Keith’s theory, we’d have gotten our World Series. Hopefully when that happens the Mets are nicely dressed so I can go meet Catwoman for lunch in Paris.
That’s as reported by QNS.com who remind us that
The land surrounding Citi Field is public parkland, part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park,” said Richard Hellenbrecht, a founder and officer of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy. “
Civic leaders from northeast and central Queens have organized to oppose Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to build a casino or other commercial structures on 50 acres of public parkland surrounding Citi Field that has been used as a parking lot since the 1939 World’s Fair. Their opposition comes days before Cohen holds a “visioning session,”which is expected to draw hundreds to Citi Field on Jan. 7,
Expect the Correa deal to get announced today to get you to stop talking about this.
“Our message to state legislators is: Our parkland is irreplaceable. It is not for sale. Contrary to what would-be casino owners may say, public parkland is not ‘developable property,’ and it must never be viewed as such,” Queens Civic Congress President Warren Schreiber said. “Why is Flushing Meadows Corona Park — which this planned ‘entertainment center’ and casino has been proposed in — over decades consistently targeted by commercial schemes when other parks throughout the city are not? Can you imagine a Manhattan developer holding a ‘visioning session’ to consider repurposing the portion of Central Park between 59th and 61st streets? If it’s outrageous to do that in Manhattan, then it’s just as outrageous to do it in Queens.”
You guys think I am kidding when I throw a Mets player under the bus for doing something other than working out and watching game films. Let’s check in with The Next Seaver himself, Matt Harvey who IS working out and watching game films!
The work never stops 🔥🦇 @mattharvey33 @CraigHansen56 @LIFieldHouseNY #GetOnTheList pic.twitter.com/WOZUPMiP2u
— John Mincone (@JMincone) January 3, 2023
Looks like the former Royals and Orioles pitching star is getting ready to return as Dark Knights tend to do.
With a career record of 50-66 and an ERA over 4 he isn’t quite The Next Seaver yet, but at age 33 I am willing to say there is a lot more baseball left in that arm! For example, Original Tom Seaver went 14 and 2 in strike shortened 1981 at 36 years old. If The Next Seaver can hand in a 14-2 this year he’ll be just four games under .500 for his career!
Anyone else see that pitch out of Matt’s arm and think it’s a little high and meant to land in the second deck?
Muscle & Fitness caught up with Mike Piazza, who had been doing some Special Forces training to rally for an event in early January which is sure to be televised by Fox! I don’t know what you’re thinking, but this is for a reality TV show.
On Jan. 4, more than a dozen celebrities will be seen arriving in the desert to endure some of the harshest and most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process in the show “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.” One such household name will be Mike Piazza.
In this new Fox series, there are no votes and no eliminations—just survival for these 16 contestants—including Danny Amendola, Mel B, Hannah Brown, Tyler Florence, Kate Gosselin, Dwight Howard, Montell Jordan, Gus Kenworthy, Nastia Liukin, Carli Lloyd, Beverley Mitchell, Kenya Moore, Dr Drew Pinsky, Anthony Scaramucci, and Jamie Lynn Spears. They joined baseball great Mike Piazza—aka “The Supreme”—as they quickly learned the meaning of “No Guts, No Glory,” tackling intense training exercises that are led by an elite team of unforgiving ex-special forces operatives. (via Muscle & Fitness)
Piazza said, ““After the first few days, I was banged up pretty good. Just from playing baseball, my joints were [already] a little sore. It’s the intensity. That, for me, was the biggest eye-opener. Just general things like athletes’ foot. Wearing the boots and not being able to shower. The living conditions were so brutal. By the second day, I was peeling skin of my feet. Man, I thought I left this behind 10 years ago!”
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While researching this story I came across this Instagram post I hadn’t seen before.
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