The Mets David Stearns Timeline: Buckle up. it's a long one. Because I am fucking done with the David Stearns defenders. #LGM
2024: David Stearns takes over a basically ready made roster. He throws a bunch of 1 year contract darts at a wall because he wants to rebuild the core of the team in his identity, so he has no interest in doing anything major. The darts mainly stick (he still only brought up Iglesias and Vientos because his other darts sucked or players got injured). The Mets go on a magical run with the most likeable team since 2015 and get within 2 wins of the World Series. David Stearns masterplan will have to wait.
2025: as a result of 2024, David Stearns is gifted one of the best players in baseball by wonderful owner @StevenACohen2.. David follow this gift up by doing basically nothing else to improve the roster other than begrudgingly signing Pete Alonso to an essential 1 year deal because he cant justify breaking up the core of this team and rebuilding it coming off a NLCS appearance + Juan Soto. Result? The offense performs decently enough for the season, while the starting pitching completely crumbles. Stearns responds by adding exactly zero starting pitchers at the deadline, instead going all in on a bunch of relievers and a corpse CF. The Mets miss the playoffs by 1 game, solely due to Stearns failure to put a starting rotation together + most of his deadline moves completely failing.
2026: Now that the Mets AREN'T coming off a great season, David realizes NOW is the time to start his plan. He lets Alonso and Diaz walk. Trades Nimmo and McNeil. The replacements for ALL these players are either hurt, useless, a free agent next year, or all 3. David Stearns replaced Alonso and Nimmo's 26 homers this year so far with Polanco and Semien's 10 home runs. NOT GREAT. On top of that, remember why we missed the playoffs in 2025? The terrible starting pitching? Stearns reacted to that by bringing in 1 (1!!!!!!) rental starting pitcher who has never pitched outside Milwaukee before. There is ZERO reason, why this lineup could not have had Alonso, Nimmo AND Bichette.
In summation: Going into a year where we just needed to run the lineup back and invest in starting pitching, David Stearns decided to gut the lineup, upset the fanbase, bring in a few mercenaries, and almost completely ignore the only issue he had to fix.
He is an abject failure as the President of Baseball Operations, who has been protected and coddled by the media and podcasters because he's accessible.
He has destroyed this franchise for the sole purpose of wanting to treat the Mets like a GM Mode of MLB The Show and rebuild them in his image. He's a fraud.
Fire him. Today. #LGM
If it’s true, as @FriedgeHNIC reports, that 40 broadcasters didn’t return ballots for the Jack Adams, the NHL needs to take that honor away from the broadcaster’s association. That’s absolutely egregious when only 99 voted.
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Some of @LedyardNFLDraft on TJ Parker:
"Parker is slow off the ball, often moving after everyone else on the defensive line, and lacks the burst, speed and bend to be a high side pass rusher. When he tried to do things that the best edge defenders do at the top of the arc, he got pushed beyond the pocket or he lost his balance."
Sounds like another stiff run defending EDGE.
"HERE COMES THE PIZZA" 🍕😂
On this day in 2007, a Red Sox fan threw a slice of pizza at another fan, leading to hilarity from the Boston broadcasters 🤣
(h/t 🎥: @MLBVault)
It should probably be concerning, on an existential level, how absolutely amoral people running the world seem to be these days.
There's enough dystopian fiction out there that we appear to be running towards that the species should probably think about putting some guardrails in place.
RIP to my favorite Presidents Day fun fact.
John Tyler, our 10th president, had a grandson alive until last May.
John had a son while in his 60s.
That son had a kid while in his 70s.
And that kid, Harrison Tyler, passed away last year at age 96.
So… New fun fact:
John was born during Washington administration. So 3 generations of Tylers span EVERY PRESIDENCY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.