Fink

Boston College alum

[Fink @brendansfink]

Salesianum Spirit Week 2018-2019.
https://t.co/gckgqYJL0I

[Sinnoh🌙 @sinnoh_CEO]

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the NDS were released on this day in Japan, 20 years ago (2006)

[Fink @brendansfink]

This is good news

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

🚨 🚨 🚨

The #Giants are trading for #Vikings former first-round QB JJ McCarthy, per me, @AdamSchefter and @MikeGarafolo.

With Jaxson Dart out for the regular season, NYG acquires McCarthy to help solidify their room. An intriguing add.

[Bungie @Bungie]

Today, we’re sharing more about the future of Bungie, including our plans for Destiny, Marathon, and how we’re changing the way we work.

Read more on https://t.co/ZkmLWmaQZr: https://t.co/QbDwADGinr

[Chip23 @NYRChip23]

Moment that will go mostly unnoticed

Harbaugh giving handshakes and hugs to players sees Tracey (who got no snaps after his fumble) and pulls him in for a big hug and talks to him for about a minute with a big smile.

Coaching.

[Boston College Football @BCFootball]

19. For Welles.

[vampire workday @imbobswaget]

ali slagle you’ve done it again https://t.co/7xW6PBXrzp

[YBG Zedong @CorcoranCommons]

BC's graduated members of Congress, ambassadors, actors, athletes, countless execs and CEOs, but it has forever stuck with me that at my freshman orientation, they gave us an extensive presentation on Welles and told us in no uncertain terms that he's the alum BC is most proud of

[jaycee @jayceepxrez]

OBJ, Malachi Fields, and Malik Nabers

[Ben Yoel @Ben_Yoel]

Ron Darling just said something that I’ve been saying for awhile now. Nolan McLean has such good stuff that he needs to work on being less fine and pitch to contact more. His walks will go down and he will be able to go deeper in games. If he can do that he will be truly elite.

[Nicky The Good @nickythegood]

Mets a zillion games below .500 in a lost season but everyone can see the future. They see the kids.

Sounds like a pennant race. The best fans in the MLB

[Underdog @Underdog]

The Mets OF on a random Monday night in August

[New York Mets @Mets]

Stopped at 4 out of respect for Jayden Daniels #LGM #MetsWin

[Portland Hearts of Pine @hearts_sc]

A new home for the Soccer Club of Maine 🏟️

We’re thrilled to announce we have entered into an agreement to acquire land at Cassidy Point in Portland, where the club plans to build a 9,000–11,000 seat soccer-specific stadium that will serve as a permanent home for the club's men's and women's teams.

https://t.co/eeWxyvbKu9

[Dax McCarty @DaxMcCarty11]

Feast your eyes on not just the goal of this World Cup, but one of the best goals in World Cup history. Consider the stakes, the moment, the technique. Are you kidding me?!? 🇨🇻

[That’s Baseball, Suzyn @Thats_BB_Suzyn]

Taking off my Yankees hat for a minute to assess the Mets situation.

The Pete Alonso situation captures everything about why David Stearns is not the secret genius we were told he was, and why he is, simply, a terrible GM.

You don’t let a Forever Guy, the franchise leader in HR, walk to another team. At least not without a good reason. And the reasons Stearns gave for not even making an offer to Pete simply don’t hold up. They reveal that he might just be an idiot.

1. “His defense is sub-par.” Sure, but then you signed Bo Bichette to play a position he never played, and he was already a terrible defender at the position he did play. And then you signed a roleplayer to play 1B who hadn’t even played 1B before. So even if you prioritized defense, you had no plan to make that happen.

2. “He won’t age well.” Pete never gets hurt, plays 162 games, and has been the most consistent right handed power hitter in baseball since coming into the league. He’s a lock for 35-45 HR every year with an .800 to .850 OPS. There’s a reason he’s the franchise leader in HR. Homegrown guys like that come along once in a generation.

3. “We didn’t want to hamstring ourselves with a long term contract, especially because we already did that with Lindor and Soto.” Understandable, but the Orioles only signed him through his Age 35 season. That’s a bargain in this day and age. Aaron Judge, Ohtani, Mookie, Vlad Jr., Soto, Trout, Harper, and Machado are all locked up through Age 39 and beyond. If you’re scared of signing an elite 1B to a 5 year deal through Age 35, you shouldn’t be a major league GM.

Simply put, all of Stearns’ reasons were complete BS.

Now I can think of some reasons to keep Pete:

1. Chicks dig the Forever Guy - Win or lose, some fans will always buy tickets to see an elite homegrown player they grew up with. Investing in someone like that is a good business decision. Insurance in case you don’t win. There’s something special about seeing a no-name prospect become a superstar over the course of his rookie year. Fans, especially kids, have been on this journey with Pete since he broke Aaron Judge’s rookie home run record in 2019. Obviously winning matters most. But take this from a Yankees fan. When we were mediocre and in between playoff windows in 2013-2014, we still paid to go see Jeter and Mariano.

2. The Quest for 500 - Pete is on a borderline HOF track. Every HR he would have hit at Citi Field would have been a new record. Unless he gets hurt—and so far he never gets hurt—he had a really good chance to get to 500. Why take that away from fans?

3. The Mets have never had a Forever Guy. Seaver. Straw. Doc. DeGrom. None of those guys stayed with the Mets. Pete not only had a chance to be a face of the franchise, but THE face of the franchise, for decades to come.

Look, I’m not emotionally invested in the Mets. I don’t hate them, even if I don’t root for them. And as a baseball fan, I think every team deserves a homegrown hero, win or lose. I count dozens of Mets fans amongst my family and friends. It’s painful to see what Pete on the Orioles has done to them.

There is certainly an argument to be made for being ruthless, doing whatever it takes to win. But David Stearns didn’t do that either. Instead of being a secret genius, it seems he had no plan at all. Now that they’re a dumpster fire, it doesn’t surprise me that Pete Alonso is the outlet through which fans are venting their frustration.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"I mean, what do you say at this point? I mean, this team is in the depths of despair, can't get starting pitching to hold the other team at bay, struggling with their offense, and now the defense falls apart. SIX infield errors. Unprecedented." - Gary Cohen pulls no punches on the lifeless Mets.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Mets are falling to 12 games under .500 in late June and the crowd is chanting “PETE ALONSO”

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

This whole season is an error.