Mayor de Blasio, who is never here, has hired Gregory Russ to be the new NYCHA chief. Russ, who will make $402,000 yearly, will be spending his weekends in Minnesota with family. The perfect hire. … The Mets, looking for a scapegoat, fired pitching coach Dave Eiland and replaced him with the amazin’ly youthful 82-year-old Phil Regan, who can better relate to their young staff. Reader Don Reed: “Only difference between the Mets and the Jets is the M and the J.”
More good news, Mets fans! We haven’t had a winner in a week and we’re picking the Cubs.