As each day passes, the Mets continue to cement their status as the laughingstock of baseball (did anyone expect to read such a statement a year ago when Steve Cohen took over as owner from the clueless Wilpons? Remember how excited we were about this team?).
Earlier in the week, Sandy Alderson (team president? De facto President of Baseball Operations? GM by default?) claimed the city of New York was the reason he could not hire anyone to run the baseball side of this hapless organization. He never mentioned the real reason — that his mere presence in Flushing means his hire would never have true autonomy.