"Got the 22 in the army jacket lining," the 25 NY Mets thread.
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He's in top form this year.
Yeah don’t nobody want this shyt. Good chunk of people hate the Mets already because dikkheads driving in on game day makes traffic hell. Also, there’s already a casino in Queens.
No one cares for casinos in dense places in NYC. Look at the reaction to Jay Z’s attempt to put one in Times Square. Mind you, New Yorkers don’t even go there, just know they don’t want it.
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Senga needs his extra day. Mets are gonna miss Yamamoto to. So they should be able to score on their not injured pitching.So we're really starting Blackburn's sorry ass in game 1 tonight, huh? So we're just gonna punt on the opener, eh?
Bullpen's about to get some work this series.
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Im more worried about our bullpen usage. This is a 4 game set, not 3. I can see this pos Blackburn goin 3+ and the bullpen having to pick up the slack. And its not like you wanna rely on the pen against these guys.
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Yamamoto had to leave early last night. So they already at a deficit bullpen wise. On paper we aren't sending out our best SPs but It's a regular season series in June don't get too worked up about it.
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Also:
We up up on the SP side of things. Shout out to the front office, pitching lab and the pitchers themselves. We actually are developing or have developed a competitive advantage with the Stearns philosophy. Especially when news like Corbin Burnes breaks.
We up up on the SP side of things. Shout out to the front office, pitching lab and the pitchers themselves. We actually are developing or have developed a competitive advantage with the Stearns philosophy. Especially when news like Corbin Burnes breaks.
I felt bad for Corbin when I saw that clip but damn did we dodge a bullet or what? lol
I wanted us to prioritize signing him too - shows what I know!
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That's why Stearns is the man. Public pressure doesn't effect him at all. People have been yelling about our weak rotation for 2 years and he didn't listen one bit. Love it!
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Blackburn looked filthy last night. I like what I saw.
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Mets Casino Project Advances As Cohen Shakes Up Front Office
The Mets continue to be in transition under Steve Cohen, parting ways with a key exec while progressing on their large-scale casino project.frontofficesports.com
While Mets owner Steve Cohen is reshaping the team’s senior leadership, he’s also making more progress on his proposed $8 billion casino and entertainment complex.
The Mets continue to be in significant transition under owner Steve Cohen, making critical progress on their large-scale bid to transform the Citi Field area and parting ways with a key executive.
The MLB club said late Tuesday that the president of business operations, Scott Havens, will be stepping down after 18 months with the team. The former Bloomberg Media CEO and longtime media executive packed a significant amount of activity in the brief stint, helping oversee several upgrades to Citi Field and a league-leading attendance boost this year that came in part from signing Juan Soto last fall to a record-setting, $765 million deal.
Even as Soto has struggled with the Mets so far, that attendance bump in Queens has grown to 53% compared to this time last year.
The pursuit of Soto, however, also included comments last summer at a Front Office Sports event that “we think he’s a tremendous baseball player. We’d love to have him in Queens,” which in turn raised eyebrows within the sport as potential tampering. Cohen said in a statement that he had “differing perspectives on long-term strategy” with Havens. FOS sources said Cohen is interested in someone with more sports industry experience, and the club intends to announce a new president of business operations “shortly.”
“Scott has played a key role in driving progress across the Mets organization,” Cohen said. “I’m grateful for the impact he’s had during his time with us.”
Top leaders in the Mets’ marketing, legal, communications, and finance departments have also left in recent months.
Key Casino Step
Cohen, meanwhile, has cleared another significant hurdle in his ongoing bid to develop an $8 billion casino and entertainment complex adjacent to Citi Field, and in partnership with Hard Rock International.
The New York state senate voted Tuesday to allow New York City to reclassify 50 acres of parking lots around Citi Field and expand the permitted uses of the land to include the Metropolitan Park casino project. The state assembly has already approved the measure, and it now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul for her signature.
“After years of community engagement, thousands of conversations, and the leadership of our local officials, we are one step closer to transforming the asphalt lots into something our neighbors can truly be proud of,” Cohen said.
All of this is prelude in an effort to win one of three coveted downstate gaming licenses—which are set to be awarded in December. Metropolitan Park is one of 11 major entities pursuing those three licenses, with rival projects proposed for other iconic New York locales such as Times Square, Coney Island, Hudson Yards, and Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
There is no downscaled version of Metropolitan Park envisioned if the casino licenses go elsewhere, Metropolitan Park officials said, as the gaming revenue that would be generated is a key source of the project’s private funding.
Uncle Stevie about to flip the baseball script in NY. For the foreseeable future. Wow.
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Looks like vientos might be out for a bit.