Ewing and Benge definitely have great potential. They will be solid pieces if the organization stops micromanaging.
But the fact remains, our problems remain the same. SP at the top is dogshit. Soto has little to no protection.
For as long as leadership (Stearns) remains more worried about proving themselves right, rather than fielding a winning fucking team, these issues will not be addressed.
The key limiting factor right now is - how much unnecessary interference is going on?
1B by committee compared to 1 full time player has been cripplingly bad.
Players out of position has not and will not pay off the way Stearns wants it to. Ever.
Letting analytics dictate how you approach the match ups and lineups down to every single pitch will not work the way the Mets are employing it.
They need to stop over-informing the athletes, filling their heads with clutter, and just have them let it rip sometimes.
From a free speech and face your accuser perspective, it needs appeal.
Using that language is not something I would do. If she's found not guilty on using that language towards the child, it can't be the case that she's guilty when engaged with the adult.
And if that adult she engaged with fled to Somalia, there's no injured party.
It was illustrative. There's dozens of similar examples of players emerging as real MLB talent after years of languishing with the Mets. Is Holderman going to find 1 or 2 years of success then fizzle like Sewald, Montero or Flexen? He sure might. Probably even most likely.
Or will he be like Wheeler, Murphy, Turner, Kent, etc.?
All I was saying was: Mets fans lamenting Holderman are ridiculous. We have dozens of worse 'Mets-suck-at-development' examples.
Good thing we're a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy.
Its almost as if those in power think they could use institutional might to perpetually rule if 'the people' couldn't spend money on elections.
The quiet part Bernia doesn't say is: with media, Federal bureaucrats and academia so tilted to the left, they 'in kind' or comparable $ contributions from those organizations constitutes billions in value.
Fuck this hypocrite.
McLean is an SP2 (this year) we need to act like a 1. Holmes is a 4/5 we pretend is a 2 (gives no innings), Scott and Thornton are early enough that the league may yet figure out - we need 15 more starts to really see if they've got it, and Maneae is a 6.
Sure, if we sign Skubal and every pitcher variable breaks our way, the rotation can be good.
These are your 5, is lacking.
With the season they've been having, winning 3 of every 5 remaining games, when they've won 3+ games only 4 times this year, is beyond improbable.
If they pull it off, you shake your head in Mets-fan-esque disgust because yet again, any one or two wins against the dregs of the league means they would have been in control of their destiny much earlier.
So, no, you don't enjoy it or root for mediocrity. That would only embolden continued bad decision making.
As an aside, based on their schedule, they can win 16 straight, to get to .500, and make up little to no ground based on who they play. Their remaining SoS is substantially harder than the Padres, Nationals, Marlins, Diamondbacks, and Cardinals. Even the Cubs, Phillies and Pirates have easier schedules, so them going .500 is easily doable over the next 16.
@elonmusk 100%.
Their next excuse or talking point will be "they all live here as peaceful friends and neighbors, like family, shouldn't they have a voice in who governs them too???'.
@Stickballruss So is the argument that dead people are in fact citizens with a right to vote?
Seems like a bad faith angle shoot.
I didn't think SAVE was explicitly about keeping illegals from voting but rather in reducing general fraud.
@SouthernSorcerE There's nothing 'in the sand' about this.
He's clearly stating that if you don't like it, you can fuck off.
Pretty much engraved in granite.
@Stickballruss Needs to be refined.
There's a hole you can drive a bus through.
Sony can simply kill a server 12 months after launch, relaunching the DLC or next phase as Game XYZ 2.0.
Now you need a new full repurchase.