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I had the pleasure of being invited to the ballpark yesterday for a tasting of the Polar Burger from the new Alonso’s Arctic Grill at Citi Field.

I unfortunately wasn’t able to make it, but still took part in the zoom call with other invitees.

Similar to Keith Hernandez’s Grill back in the day (the Mex Burger came with a Tootsie Roll Pop), Pete is now the proud father of his own ballpark burger.

Pete made a point to say how much he cares about sustainability, and carefully worked with the Citi Field Chef’s on building his burger with all local ingredients.

The Alonso Arctic Grill will open this Friday night, May 7th, and is located behind section 102 in right field, just steps from the Shea Bridge.

Of course “If Matt Harvey did this…”

Anyway if you’d like to know the menu offerings, check out The T-Shirt Blog and remember Vulgar Pete has no idea why Chili Davis was fired.  I guess the hamburger stand doesn’t offer Chili Burgers as an option.   #LGM

Thanks to @nycsporty for putting this on my radar.  I used to have @mediagoon for this stuff but he’s always at Modell’s buying jerseys.

Here at Mets Police I don’t second guess, I first guess.  

As you saw, Jacob deGrom had a scratched start.  The signs were there.  I have proof, and lots of it.

March 7th, MetsPolice.com article citing the New York Times’ coverage of Syndergaard’s injury as a warning.  I even went to the BIG RED FONT for this one.

Buy hey, there was #TheNarrative and The Narrative declared that JDG was throwing hard ooooooooo.

March 12th, another article on MetsPolice.com after the media fawned again over how hard JDG was throwing in March.

April 20 tweet while I am watching the Mets game

Now Gary, I get that a lot of the beat are younger than us, but you have called 30+ years of Mets games.  Can you recall an instance of a starting pitcher asking for an extra day’s rest?  One?  Can you name one?  Usually they want the ball and want to go on shot rest.  But y’all just glossed over this.  But that’s ok.

April 20 another tweet

Here’s a piece from April 21 asking WHY does JDG want an extra day between starts.  

April 22 tweet

 

April 23rd tweet

I can almost understand you all ignoring everything above this line because JDG has been pitching so well, but when he asked for more time for a second time everyone’s spidey sense should have been tingling, no?

4 days ago tweet.

Gary and the Beat, you didn’t think it was odd that JDG was asking for a day’s rest AGAIN?   Not the least bit odd.  Nope, let’s talk about Pete Alonso’s fake coach and just print whatever the Mets feed us.

Where was Gelbs on this?  Every game gets interrupted with “I talked to so and so” reports from Gelbs.  You didn’t think anything was wrong with Jake?

Ronnie, you know a lot more about pitching that I do.  Isn’t it odd that a pitcher would ask for extra time?

Whichever Tim it was that got into it with me on twitter about Alonso’s defense?  Where was your deGrom story?

The Truth WAS out there Scully.  It’s in this article about Lat injuries.  You know what causes Lat injuries?  Throwing too hard.

Oh please Pete…

“I’m gonna be completely honest,” Alonso told reporters via Zoom. “So I found out on Twitter while I was eating my postgame meal and I talked to Zack (Scott), our GM. It was a professional talk. Then I gave (Slater) and (Davis) two big old hugs and I cried at my locker for a little bit.” (via Yahoo Sports)

The Post reminds us…

Over the weekend Mets players, most notably Pete Alonso, referred to Donnie Stevenson, a fictional coach who had helped get the team fired up offensively. Davis chuckled at the mention of Donnie Stevenson and admitted the fictional character probably didn’t help his cause.

“The players were having fun and I know they didn’t mean any harm,” Davis said. “It was a fun time for them, but it probably didn’t help.

Let’s also talk about the media here.

Pete floated the Donnie thing in the press conference.  Now I am not a reporter, but I imagine both the reporter and the league want the players to answer questions and take it seriously.  If a star player like Vulgar Pete is going to get up there and be dishonest with the media then that helps nobody.

But the 2021 Beat, the worst version of the beat yet (the ones who didn’t notice the deGrom story but that’s my next post) just went with the Donnie story as cute.   And it went national.  Yep, there was a fictional character who could help the Mets more that Chili Davis.

Well Pete, I see you are shocked to find out there is gambling going on here.

In 2020 the reason Pete wasn’t hitting home runs was because Chili wasn’t around because of Covid.  In 2021, what’s the excuse going to be – that they fired Chili?  Whose fault is that?

 

Does Steve Steinbrenner now realize he blew the off-season?  The first move is usually the hitting coach…then the next move is the Field Manager, which Steve should have changed this winter.

Steve Steinbrenner’s third place Mets are 11-12, and the comedians have yet to come out to support the team.

I am also enjoying Acting Regional General Manager Z. Michael Scott acting like he’s in charge of anything.

Scott said, “This was a really difficult decision to make, but the reason we felt like it was the right decision was based on a vision for what we want our major league hitting program to be.  There are certain things, the process under the hood is what’s important. It’s not about results.”

“Our job is to support the players and put them in a position to succeed as a baseball operations group and we just felt the players needed a different level of support and maybe some different skills brought into the mix,”

Plus Sandy called and said he was going to sleep but for me to take the move and deal with all this stuff, that’s why he has me.  He’s too old to deal with reporters.

METS RELIEVE CHILI DAVIS AND TOM SLATER OF THEIR DUTIES

HUGH QUATTLEBAUM & KEVIN HOWARD TO JOIN COACHING STAFF

 

FLUSHING, N.Y., May 3, 2021 – The New York Mets have announced tonight that the club has relieved hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater of their duties, effective immediately. The club has named Hugh Quattlebaum the team’s new hitting coach and Kevin Howard the new assistant hitting coach. Both will be in St. Louis on Tuesday.

 

Quattlebaum, 42, joined the Mets organization this offseason as the minor league director of hitting development. He had spent the previous three seasons with Seattle. Quattlebaum was the Mariners’ minor league hitting coordinator in 2018-2019 and was the assistant hitting coach with the Major League team during 2020. Prior to working with the Mariners, he was coaching and consulting in Southern California. Quattlebaum was drafted by Detroit in the 25^th round of the 2000 First-Year Player Draft from Amherst College (MA). He spent four years in the Tigers (2000-2002) and Orioles (2003) minor league systems.

 

Howard, 39, joined the Mets this year as the organization’s director of player development. He spent the previous six seasons in Cleveland’s organization, including 2019-2020 as the minor league hitting coordinator. Howard played professionally for 12 seasons, playing in the Reds, Yankees, Phillies, Dodgers, Mariners, Padres, Blue Jays and Cardinals organizations before spending the final two years of his playing career in Independent ball. He was originally drafted in the fifth round of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft by Cincinnati. Howard earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Miami, where played collegiately for three seasons, winning a National Championship in 2001.

 

Davis was in his third season as the Mets hitting coach and Slater was in his fourth season as the team’s assistant hitting coach.

 

Did you know Keith Hernandez once played for the Cardinals?  It may even come up on the telecast!

Baseball needs to market this Keith Hernandez guy.  He is hitting .344 and nobody has heard of him.

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LHP Joey Lucchesi has been recalled from the team’s Alternate Training Site and will start tonight’s game.  @mediagoon is NOT on his way to Modell’s as he already owns a Lucchesi jersey from earlier in the season.

LHP Daniel Zamora was optioned to the team’s Alternate Training Site following yesterday’s game.