I don’t even know what to say about the Mets, man. I’m not TRYING to constantly laugh at their (self-inflicted) problems, but when the owner is out there just airing everything again and again, it’s pretty difficult not to notice.
The latest installment of lolMets starts with a relatively innocuous report in the New York Post about how Mets owner Steve Cohen and team president Sandy Alderson plan to proceed with their next year’s worth of hiring/firing decisions (president/GM, manager). The report includes some quotes on the Mets’ purported thinking from an anonymous MLB exec. It’s not even something I would’ve noticed, and although I’m sure it was much more well-traveled among Mets fans, it looks to me to be pretty vanilla.
But I suppose that’s because I was focused on the meat of the article, rather than the more salacious headline. The focus there, and almost certainly what got Cohen in a twist, was about an anonymous exec calling out the owner’s Twitter habits. The quote from the article, which is just one dude’s opinion and would be ignored by most responsible adults: “Cohen is out there tweeting about the organization and about stuff that he shouldn’t be tweeting about like he’s a fan. Why would somebody want to sign up for that? I think it’s a huge issue.”
Then, in an almost perfectly display of proof, Cohen took to Twitter with one of the most unorthodox steps I’ve ever seen: he wanted the source outed and created a CONTEST to generate attention for it.
That led to a purported outing of the source, and then denials from that purported source AND the article’s author. If I were a Mets fan – or employee! – I would find all of this deeply weird, at a minimum, and maybe even embarrassing. Follow along:
“Insightful” source in Mike Puma’s article in the New York Post today .The person who can guess the source correctly will have the opportunity to sit with me in my suite at Citifield.First one right wins.
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) September 16, 2021
It’s not me and it’s not an easy call
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) September 16, 2021
We already have a winner
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) September 16, 2021
I will take a second and third place winner to keep the game going . I will announce the winners and the “ source” later
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) September 16, 2021
Well , Twitter figured it out as usual. The source, who has already put out a pre- denial denial is David Samson.I will have my press people reach out to the 3 winners
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) September 16, 2021
1. When I say something, it’s on the record and my name is attached.
2. The universe of potential sources is endless.
3. I would be happy to come to a game with you so you are not alone.
4. Good luck the rest of the way.
5. It’s just business. It’s Nothing Personal. https://t.co/D9sruALlpK— David P. Samson (@DavidPSamson) September 16, 2021
Sorry @StevenACohen2 but I hope those three fans still get to watch a game with you! https://t.co/yjvHRKoe58
— David P. Samson (@DavidPSamson) September 16, 2021
I’m sure that Samson, a former Marlins exec-turned-media personality, isn’t hating the attention, misidentified or otherwise. But for Cohen, why on earth would you want to turn this into even more of a circus? When you’ve already had to dismiss multiple GMs, when your team just got swept out of a legit postseason race, after you just had a buncha BS drama involving your two big infield acquisitions, and on and on? It’s not like it works as a distraction, because it just ADDS to the pile!
HOWEVER, since I am merely a baseball (and baseball drama) fan, I love it. Keep going!