Michael Drago

Yeah it hasn’t been a great night for the Knicks but they’re still a good team

I always dreamed of Sam Darnold beating the Patriots in the playoffs.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Cohen got his casino and doesn’t care anymore

It is now January 21st. The Mets have acquired several very good players. They have spent a lot of money in doing so. The roster now looks notably better than it did at the end of the 2025 season.

Gee, who could have foreseen this outcome?????

A couple of ball-knowers right here.

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I was knee-deep in preparing my “Bo Bichette is actually super mid” takes for when I thought the Phillies were gonna sign him and now I have to immediately pivot to a “Bo Bichette is actually better than Kyle Tucker” take and there’s just a lot of whiplash going on in my brain right now.

Well they’ve signed someone now! But I would also say that I don’t know that the Dodgers have actually had the kind of bad contracts we’re talking about here, at least recently. Their bad contracts have mostly been pitchers that they’ve been able to shove to the bottom of their pitching staff.

We can reasonably debate whether the short-term gain beats out the long-term risk for any contract, but the risk is not being stuck with no money. It’s being stuck with a bad player who you have to continue to play because you made promises while trying to sign them and thus blocking better players.

I think Tim nails the essential issue here. The Mets’ infrastructure is reasonably close to where the Dodgers were five years ago. They - along with every other team in baseball - are miles away from where the Dodgers are now, and there’s no easy pathway to making up that gap.

Santa better have brought her a bunch of new toys.

“The Blue Hens have a better record than the Jets” yeah well do the Blue Hens have five first round picks over the next two years? Didn’t think so.

This individual mocks me for watching the Jets every Sunday but is locked in for a weeknight bowl game between two .500 college teams.

KNICKS

The slop posters will never learn and that’s just to be expected. The disappointing part of the discourse has been all the people who are usually pretty smart and should know better who have been reacting the exact same way as the slop posters. And those people also probably won’t learn anything.

When I first saw the Polanco news, my reaction was “huh, that’s weird.” Then I read up on it and thought about it and discussed it with others. Now I’m pretty happy with it.

Your immediate gut reactions will often not be the right one and you are under no obligation to share it with the world.

This suggestion will fall on deaf ears - the majority of Mets fans are just committed to screaming about every single thing that happens - but I’ll offer it anyway: you don’t need to have an immediate reaction to every single transaction. You can just wait to hear more and/or see what else happens.

Wow weird I guess the Mets' offseason wasn't over on Dec. 10 after all. Funny how that works.

It squares with it if they believe his athleticism will allow him to make the transition successfully. Willson Contreras pretty much immediately became a great defensive first baseman the second he moved.

Not to mention the fact that the bar is Alonso’s defense at first, which, well.

If you’re currently raging about Stearns doing a terrible job, you should consider the fact that Eric Chavez agrees with you. You should then ask yourself whether agreeing with Eric Chavez’s baseball takes generally puts you on the right side of history.

It is now December 10th and so many good players still remain available, in case anybody was wondering.

3) For the love of all that is holy, can we please wait until we see what moves the Mets make from here before we declare the offseason a failure and/or deride Stearns’s unwillingness to spend? It is December 9th and so many good players remain available.

Making a return to Bluesky to offer these thoughts:

1) Díaz was often frustrating but largely fun and I will miss him.

2) There’s not much that Stearns could have done other than offer him more years, which would have been a bad baseball decision.

And now, for the most important part:

The only thing giving me pause is whether they would want to lock in the outfield corners for the next 5+ years again right after freeing themselves from that particular roster crunch. I could very easily see them being VERY aggressive on a Bregman-type deal for him, though.

Enlightened is the superior Mike White HBO show. Sorry, White Lotus.

Gary Cohen: “It’s been a team effort for the Mets tonight.”

David Peterson:

The Phillies are still objectively the clear favorites in the division but now their fans are sweating a little bit and that is beautiful to me.

If Buttó or Gilbert/Tidwell were enough to make the deal happen, it would have been Buttó or Gilbert/Tidwell and not all three.