The Mets Police

Hello!  Been busy so didn’t get to address Zack Scott, but I guess I should.

Look, it’s 2021 and publicly facing enterprises aren’t going to stand for some things.  The Mets have enough of a circus without choosing to stand behind a guy coming off a 77 win season.  Maybe it’s fair, unfair, I dunno, I dunno what actually happened – but it’s a bad look and it is 2021.

Also, it does clear up before the upcoming meetings who is NOT the General Manager.  So that eliminates some confusion.

Any day now the Mets will hire their 13th choice and tell us she/he is the right person to lead the Mets to this new era of sustained success that is coming some day as soon as the Wilpons leave and we get a cool billionaire with an open checkbook.

Also, the Mets players hate their own fans so nothing else matters to me until all these players from Baez to the complict-in-silence deGrom and Pete Alonso are gone.  Be Gone, all of you Be Gone.

Maybe what the Mets need is a hands-off manager.  Just let the players play and in the end somehow someway it will all work out.  Senior management will be confused as to HOW it all works out, but in the end it will.

Along the way there may be a few LOLMets incidents that will need o be cleaned up, but that’s going to happen any way.  Upstairs can just tell Michael who they want in the lineup and then he can just play on his phone while the players do their thing.

Michael will be happy to give long press conferences and answer all the “How did it feel when” questions Gelbs might have.

In the end, the Mets will be champions despite Michael Scott being the manager.   The Mets have been trying too hard.  What they need to do is NOT try, just let the game come to them.

Unfortunately, Michael is happy living in Colorado and doesn’t seem the big city type so I don’t think he will take the job.

Will Michael Scott manage the Mets? No.

Look, I think we can all agree there are a lot of jackhole billionaires ruining baseball.  Just a bunch of cocky rich guys who don’t care about the game, and are just interested in these things as assets.

Maybe what the Mets need is someone who has this sort of mentality.   A jerky billionaire to manage the jerky millionaires that play the game and hate their own fans.

 

Kendall Roy showed he can be pretty good with the media, the way he recently stood up to Senator Gil Eavis during those recent hearings.  I’m sure he could handle a “how did it feel” question from Gelbs.  Imagine it now…

How did it feel Steve?   How is going to feel when I come over there and punch you in the face?  (Said very calmly.)

That will be good TV.

He’s weird. He’s a jerk.  He’s calm yet crazy.  And he isn’t afraid of some hedge fund guy.

In many ways, he’s the perfect candidate.

But billionaires are afraid of the other billionaires and would never trust one with their assets.

Will Kendall Roy manage the Mets? No.

 

What if the Mets new manager could guarantee the Mets a World Series championship in 2022?  Wouldn’t that be worth everything to you?

That’s where Mr. Applegate comes in.

Steve seems like he’s willing to do whatever it takes.  All he has to do is hand the team over to Mr. Applegate, and the Mets will be 2022 champions.  We could use a slugging left fielder, but I bet that will be taken care of in the off-season.

Is there nothing Steve won’t do to win?  He’s proven in the past his willingness to write huge checks.  He doesn’t seem to care if players hate the fans and will continue to employ them as long as they perform  So why not get Mr. Applegate in here and not ask any questions?  In the end, all that matters is winning, right?

Unfortunately, the Mets would probably be afraid of brand confusion with a New Jersey based hockey team and will be afraid to make this bold decision.  It’s a shame, because hiring Mr. Applegate would have been a small price for most fans to pay to see the Mets finally win a World Series.

Will The Devil manage the Mets? No.

 

All of this has happened before and will happen again.  From 2013.  The various bold and red is mine.

Now I don’t know about you but I am 100% of parkland being converted to a casino, even if the parkland is currently a parking lot anyway.  The land should belong to the people, and a casino only makes the rich richer.  The below is from CityLimits.org in 2013 and is not discussing the current “Steve wants to build a casino” story that came out yesterday with few details.

In describing “the creation of a world-class casino, hotel, retail, and entertainment destination,” the pitch submitted by Related, Sterling, and Triple M Development ignored the project guidelines laid out in the city’s Request for Proposals, acknowledging, “[O]ur development concept departs from the programming components of the City’s master plan.” Gone was the affordable housing that sold the Bloomberg administration’s Willets Point initiative to the City Council back in 2008—in fact, the 270-page proposal contained no housing at all.

Most of the development would have taken place on parkland west of CitiField, with practically all of Willets Point getting paved over for surface parking lots. The developers said this strategy offered the “significant advantage” of “minimizing” the necessary costs to clean up polluted land on Willets Point and also avoided the building of basic infrastructure.

Their plan included the 900,000-square-foot casino; a 1.8 million-square-foot shopping mall with department stores, movie theaters, and bowling alleys; and a 500-room “premium” hotel, with restaurants, bars, and ballrooms. Renderings prominently featured the hotel’s Flash Gordon-like tower, which would put a rooftop “pool club” on stems rising above the building. Millions would visit each year, the bid predicted.

The developers’ own attorneys noted that since the CitiField parking lot is on Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, that piece of the park will have to first be alienated by the state Legislature, then approved by the governor, with the lost parkland replaced either with new acreage or capital improvements to existing parks. This same hurdle would confront the current shopping mall plan, though the Bloomberg administration denies that alienation legislation will be needed to build the shopping mall on parkland.