What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Everything he wore this weekend looked terrible. I’M A TERRIBLE DRESSER so I know what I’m talking about here.
Steve, this goes back to brand. The guy in charge looks like me in IDGAF mode at weekend picnic.
Pat Riley he is not. Who decided oversized cap and ill-fitting t-shirt is the way to go here?
As General Paul Lukas (from the War to Ditch the Black) wraps up his 25 years on Uni Watch, I’d like to congratulate him on all the great articles over the years, the support that site gave to this one, and our general back and forth (some public, some not) about Mets related things over the years.
Two must reads from over the years that come to mind are
The Wilpon Script
One must also remember Paul’s efforts to encourage the Mets to restore Uniform Sanity and to remove the back, which did happen in 2012 before Steve Cohen went and ruined everything again. At least the Mets looked nice for a decade there.
Paul also helped us get the Queens Baseball Convention started years ago with the Uni Watch panel(s).
Congrats, and best success in your next endeavor!
The other day I wrote a piece about the disaster that is Steve and Alex Cohen’s 2024 Mets. In that I encourage Steve to stop disappearing during rough patches.
Now, two days in a row, Steve has found a minute to speak to his customers!
There ya go Steve! Just do that! Nice job. No catty backhanded compliment from me. Nice job. Do that.
Uncle Steve must have read my encouragement letter from yesterday,
Boring but at least he showed up.
Steve, bro, what the hell is this?
14.5 back before Memorial Day?
At least Fred Wilpon wanted us to have meaningful games in September, which we mocked. Now we don’t even get to have them on Memorial Day weekend.
Steve, even the 1978 Mets were WAY better on May 23rd.
Even 1992’s Worst Team Money Can Buy was better.
Steve. you’ve gotten everything wrong.
You fired Buck. That was you, right? Totally not Stearns. That was what we were told and I believe you to be a man of your word.
You didn’t pick up the phone for one of the shiniest free agents. Why not take a shot? If you don’t ask the beauty queen to the prom then she can’t say yes.
You castrated the museum which was actually the best feature Citi Field had.
The dance team is a joke, but I suspect why you had to say yes to that idea, I get it bro, I feel ya.
City Connect wasn’t a disaster, I will give you that one.
But it’s not even Memorial Day and the season is over and the fanbase is checked out. I warned you about the fanbase last September. It’s gonna get ugly. That New Rich Billionaire smell has worn off.
So what do I want you to do?
Well – I am going to throw the word culture around as every regime does.
AND, you’re going to give a press conference admitting this is a disaster and that you’re on the case. Stand there and take questions for 20 minutes. Stop hiding out.
THEN declare what kind of owner you are. If you wanna be George Steinbrenner then I want to hear from you after every sweep in Cleveland. If you want to be the Maras, thats fine. It was nice knowing you and we will talk to Stearns and you can go off and run your other businesses and we’ll leave you alone. Either is OK. But you can’t be half-in in this town, and right now you’re half-in and your entire product is a disaster.
Right now the brand is a frat boy at first who thinks its funny to drop an F bomb into the prayers, a decade long commitment to a guy who doesn’t like the customers, a dance team, losing faceless baseball, and a new front office every two years.
SOMEONE approved all these hires, and at worst someone approved the hiring of the person making all these hires.
This is your team. You chose to be “Uncle Steve” – well Uncle Steve, your product sucks. I don’t want to hear that there’s nothing you can do about it until the trade deadline.
