The Mets Police

Regular readers may recall Steve Cohen reportedly gave $1,500,000 to Mayor Adams campaign,

Well, TheCity.NYC reports...

Steve Cohen, who bought the team for $2.4 billion in the fall of 2020, hosted Mayor Eric Adams and other top City Hall officials at Citi Field this January, where he and others presented ideas for Willets Point, the 61-acre piece of land across the street, THE CITY has learned.

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Cohen’s people also discussed broader plans to beautify the area around the stadium, including potentially adding hiking trails along Flushing Creek.

.So that part is good.  Beautifying the area and trails and opening up he water, all good.  Casinos, not so good.

And just so we have this down the road when we need to follow the money – let’s make sure we have down all the various names this is under.  Again from TheCIty,nyc

New Green Willets, a Delaware-based limited-liability company, was formed in January to press city and state officials about the issue, lobbying records show.

NGW is linked to the Stamford, Conn., office of Point72, a financial firm owned by Cohen. City lobbying records list Vincent Tortorella, the general counsel of Point 72, as the main principal of the New Green group.

The company then retained Moonshot Strategies and Hollis Public Affairs to lobby City Hall officials and other electeds, records show. New Green Willets has paid each organization $20,000 since January.

OK ya got all of that – we have “New Green Willets”, Point 72, Moonshot Strategies and Hollis Public Affairs.

I’m still looking forward to the affordable housing and the school we were promised.   And at least the Cohen/Point 72/NGW/Moonshot/Hollis project is across the street and not on parkland.

As for our old pals the Wilpons, the same article says

Queens Development Group, a joint-venture between Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ Related Companies and Sterling Equities, the real estate company owned by the Wilpon family (who used to own the Mets) and Saul Katz (an accused Bernie Madoff co-conspirator and in-law to the Wilpons), just got the green-light to start work on a portion of the Willets Point land last May.

Anyway, sure was nice of Steve to reportedly donate $1,500,000 to the mayor’s campaign.

The voice of the Omaha Storm-Chasers and 2017 graduate of the University of Maryland, Jake Eisenberg will be Howie Rose’s backup this season.  Howie is expected to blow off skip the West Coast trips.

Here is his reel of him calling…..college basketball.

Here he is being “Gelbs” 

And here he is talking about baseball.

And here’s some TRYING TOO HARD PBP

Play of the year candidate from Bobby Witt Jr.

Jaw-dropping stuff. Just wow. pic.twitter.com/uMa6uGlnl6

— Jake Eisenberg (@JakeEisenberg_) September 29, 2021

You Iron Eagle fanatics will love him. Fortunately, radio is dead to me so I will never hear him.

Now as Admiral Kirk once said, this is damn peculiar. We are going to have to follow the money. I imagine it will turn out either that he’s got the right agent (maybe Keith’s agent, and if you follow the money, anytime something on SNY makes no sense it comes back to that agency) – or he’s someone’s nephew.

But like I said, radio is dead to me because of the WOR Wah-wah era and the MLB App having awful levels.  You don’t need to tell me it’s fixed or about the WCBS streaming.  They broke the habit and I moved on.

And yes I know he did Cyclones games.  Whatever.

 

Man the stupid cheap Wilpons on the worst!  We don’t even have an Opening Day Starter!

Max Scherzer thinks he feels fine enough to start Game 2 (on AppleTV+ !) but who will start game one?

There’s talk of Tylor Megill and the bullpen.

WHAT?

Shouldn’t the field manager have tried to get someone on turn to start on Thursday?

On the other hand, Game 1 carries as much weight as Game 2 in the scheme of things….and 7 teams make the playoffs, so if it were me I’d tell Max to take the first half off and show up after the All Star Break like Clemens did late-career.  JDG can show up September 30th.

The New York Mets State Fruit 59FIFTY Fitted Cap features a state fruit themed fabrication with an embroidered Mets logo at the front panels, a 1986 World Series patch at the right-wear side, and an embroidered apple above a matching MLB Batterman logo at the rear.

Do you know what the state fruit of New York is?  Hint, it is red.  I looked it up and then felt stupid.

While I don’t like this as much as yesterday’s Mango Cap, and I don’t think I can pull off this color, this might look nice on your lady friend.  47 Shop.

But WHY IS THERE A SIDE PATCH?  Side patches are terrible.

I am the Indiana Jones of side patches?  Side Patch? Why does there have to be a Side Patch?