BRONX, NY – I’m writing this late afternoon on a Tuesday where the Philadelphia Phillies finally fired their manager, Rob Thomson, and the Knicks are getting ready to play a it-shouldn’t-be-crucial-but-it-IS-crucial Game 5 in their first round playoff series vs. the Atlanta Hawks. But let’s start with the Mets. How can you not?
What’s Taking So Long? Folks, the New York Metropolitans are a dumpster fire on top of a tire fire inside a bottomless tar pit of despair. As of this writing, they share the worst record in baseball with the aforementioned Phillies who, again, just fired their manager. Every team in baseball has double-digit wins except the Mets and Phils. Heck, the Red Sox have a much better record and even they just dumped their skipper. So what are Steve Cohen, David Stearns, and the Mets waiting for? Isn’t a 12-game losing streak and getting swept at home by perennial doormat Colorado enough? Honestly, what does one have to do to get sh!tcanned in Queens? Seriously, can I have a job working for the Mets?
I’m currently between gigs and am fairly confident that I can take virtually any position within the organization and deliver similar (or even better!) results. But, back to the team. I don’t put all the blame on Mets’ manager Carlos Mendoza; it’s just that the axe usually falls on the guys in the dugout. But this mess really belongs at the feet of Mets President of Baseball Operations, David Stearns who, now that Mark Teixeira has retired, has arguably the most punchable face in baseball. In all honesty, these guys should be a package deal when the Mets finally decide to launch this lost season into the sun.
NFL Draft Grades. Besides this website, is there anything more useless than NFL Draft grades? It’s bad enough we have to suffer through all the so-called experts’ mock drafts but, after it is over, we have to endure another round of stupidity where they all decide which teams won and lost the draft… as if they have any clue. When I see a story link on ESPN.com that’s titled, Mel Kiper’s Grades for All 32 Draft Classes, I roll my eyes and move on. What does Mel Kiper know? It does make me laugh a bit that he now has to contend with similar, younger phonies who are now coming out of the woodwork and encroaching on his NFL Draft Guru domain and accompanying airtime. You can just see how much he hates it. Now THAT is fun TV.
Knicks Win! Well, it looks as though the New York Knickerbockers held serve at home last night and beat back the mighty Atlanta Hawks. Good for them. I do have a couple of questions, though. How do they overcome their lunatic owner, who seems far more concerned with ridding The Garden of people who badmouth him than he is about winning an NBA Championship? Also, and this one has had me stumped for a while, how on Earth did the Knicks have to trade 5 First Round draft picks for Mikal Bridges? Five! That is insane, given how he’s playing and how his playing minutes are dwindling. I don’t see how a team that made THAT trade can ever be taken seriously. Maybe they should poach David Stearns from the Mets. Please poach David Stearns from the Mets.
Okay, that’s all for today. We’re back at it tomorrow with Buddy Diaz, a veritable Mel Kiper of Knicks knowledge.
SPOILER ALERT: The Mets won after an error by the Nat’s 3rd baseman gifted them a cluster of runs in one inning.
