The Mets Police

Once again it is Mestivus, and time for the annual airing of grievances.  We will start with the big one and then the rest are in no particular order.

The horrible Javy Baez for coming to town for 5 minutes and BOOING THE FANS.  Unforgivable and I am glad he’s gone.

My grievance also includes ALL the 2021 Mets who were complicit in their silence.  It would not have been hard to say “My teammate was wrong.”  Weirdly the only person who seems to have done this was Lindor, but he was one of the core boo-ers.

Steve Cohen.  Look you can bring in Scherzer, you can bring in Buck…but you also brought back black uniforms and set my cause back a decade.  Just win the World Series while nicely dressed and I will go away.  Maybe in 2023?

Jacob deGrom and the people who enabled Jacob deGrom.  DON’T THROW 100 IN MARCH.  I loudly first-guessed this and whaddaya know, I was right.  Then they let him throw 100 again against 19 year olds in a practice game.  Everyone involved with that should be fired if they haven’t been already.

Where to begin?  He has infected a bunch of mistaken millennials with vulgarity.  But I think the real sin is acting like his Donnie Whatever stunt had nothing to do with Chili Davis being fired.  What, they fired the hitting coach? I am so sad, I am crying.  Please.

Waye Randazzo.  NYC’s second best baseball announcer is frustrating because he’s SO GOOD at the baseball announcing but then will have bad opinions on black uniforms and openers and WAR and all the stuff I hate.  Talk some sense into him Howie.

Keith Hernandez for his book recommendations.

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Look, I don’t know where you got the idea that this is just Winter Filler.

Buck thanked “Steve and Sandy….” before catching himself and saying “….and of course Billy”

I became fascinated with how Mrs. Showalter doesn’t seem to want any part of this.

She looks as interested as Yoko in the Let It Be sessions.

Whoever this man is, he kept answering Qs that were really for Sandy and Steve.

Billy Eppler mentioned Alex (Cohen), as did Buck.  Guys, if Jeff Wilpon’s wife were involved you guys would have lost it.  Be honest with yourselves.

Eppler made an unforced error.  He was asked if Buck was a “10” hire (scale of 1 to 10) and instead of just saying Yeah a 10, he gave a 3 minute tap dance.  Sandy then came in and saved it.

Buck mentioned three times in one answer there could be a potential shortened spring training.

This man, I believe he is with the NY Times – he is clearly in a BASEMENT like a blogger.

Get your New York Sports here sometimes when it’s convenient.

Andrew Marchand reports..

So like I can ALMOST understand the Covid part, except we just went through a year and a half of Covid and the cable news networks somehow figured out how to broadcast from Don Lemon’s living room, so surely this is solvable.

But the “due in later” part makes no sense to me.  Did this press conference sneak up on SNY?  Can nobody get to a studio in the next two hours?

Bad look for the home of the Mets.

The Mets have apparently hired Buck Showalter to be their new manager.  They did not send me a press release so I consider this story to be unofficial until I see Buck formally announced at 1pm today.  If they had a coat drive or an oversized scoreboard they’d send me a press release so I can’t why they wouldn’t send me the Buck story unless the guys from Pittsburgh used Mailing List B.

The New York Mets secretly named Buck Showalter the 24th manager in team history, agreeing to terms on a three-year contract. Showalter will wear #11.

“Buck has been one of the best baseball minds for the last two decades and he makes teams better,” said Chairman, CEO and Owner Steve Cohen. “We have a lot of talent on this team and Buck is the right manager to take us to the next level and lead us to sustained success. I am excited he is our new manager.”

Showalter, 65, has 20 years of managerial experience in the major leagues, owning a lifetime record of 1,551–1,517 (.506). He is a three-time Manager of the Year award winner, earning the honors in 1994, 2004 and 2014. Showalter’s 1,551 career wins rank 24th all-time in MLB history and the 3,069 games managed rank 21st in the majors. He has guided three of the four teams he’s managed to the postseason and been to the playoffs a total of five times. As the manager of the Yankees, Showalter ended a 14-year playoff drought, took Baltimore to the postseason after previously missing the playoffs for 15 years and led Arizona to the postseason in just their second year of existence.

“I’d like to thank Steve and Alex Cohen, Sandy and Billy for their confidence in me to lead this team,” said Showalter. “This is a tremendous opportunity and a great responsibility to represent this organization, all Mets fans and this city. I’m energized and eager to get started.”

“This has been an extremely thorough process and I am delighted that Buck will be the next manger to lead the Mets,” said President Sandy Alderson. “He is dedicated and experienced, which are two key qualities we were seeking in the next leader of this team.”

“This is a significant day for the organization,” said General Manager Billy Eppler. “Buck is one of the most experienced and accomplished managers in the game. He is the perfect baseball mind to lead this team and usher in the next era of Mets baseball. I look forward to working closely with him in the years to come.”

He began his managerial career with the New York Yankees in 1992 and remained through 1995. He would go on to become the first manager in the history of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was hired in 1996, two years before the Diamondbacks started playing so he could impact the organization. In 1999, Arizona went 100–62, marking the fastest expansion team in major league history to win a division title. Showalter managed the Texas Rangers from 2003–06 and most recently the Baltimore Orioles from 2010–18. Showalter has also previously worked for MLB Network, YES and ESPN.

Showalter will become the fifth manager to manage both the Mets and Yankees, joining Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Dallas Green and Joe Torre.

The DeFuniak Springs, FL native was originally drafted by the Yankees in the fifth round of the 1977 Draft. He spent seven years in the minor leagues before he retired as a player. He would manage five seasons in the Yankees’ minor league system before joining the organizations major league coaching staff in 1990.

In 1976, Showalter played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Hyannis Mets where he won the batting title with a .434 mark and was named the league MVP. In 2002, Showalter was inducted into the CCBL Hall of Fame.