Recognizing That Changes Have to be Made.

​Seventeen games under five hundred (40 and 57) pretty much sends the Mets packing it in at the All-Star Break. So much for any chance for a playoff berth.

Now, the “Boy Wonder”, David Stearns has to begin dismantling his band of has-beens and never-wases which he chose after he decided to trade or not re-sign the core of Alonzo, Nimmo, Diaz and McNeil.

The team is now in a rebuilding state, which has only a few certainties. These include Benge, Ewing, Soto, Lindor, McLean and the catching core. And maybe, one or two more pitchers. Everyone else is expendable.

Steve Cohen needs to shed payroll and bring some sanity back to the roster. As fans, we recognize that his five-year plan is not happening now and Stearns’ patchwork of misfits is a failure. 

The Boy Wonder may have been a success in a small market, but has no idea of what he is doing in New York. Even with unlimited resources. And his smug attitude has become tiresome, as he blames everyone else for his own shortcomings.

This team has brought back reminders of past years under the Payson and Wilpon ownerships. But at least we knew that failure WAS an option, and the cost of witnessing disappointment in person was not your monthly rent payment.

And the desperation of putting cheeks in the seats by offering giveaways to the first 15,000 people doesn’t cut it anymore, either. Perhaps, the ‘86 Mets World Series Ceremony and Carlos Beltran’s Retirement Day will provide a positive response to an otherwise disappointing season.

We can only hope that a new manager, coaching staff and a revamped roster will come to pass for 2027 and give us something better to root for than this disaster. Anything will be better than this.

Wait until next year. Let’s Go Mets!

The Latest Mamdani Public Relations Disaster

We have forever acknowledged, proudly, that this country is a nation of immigrants, coming from all parts of the world. And for our entire history, we have recognized the contributions each generation from each ethnicity has made to our unique development as a nation.

Until this week.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Socialist Mayor of New York City and an immigrant himself, willfully neglected to recognize a key group of immigrants who helped to make New York the Greatest City in the world in his “immigrant map” by omitting Little Italy and the enclave it represents.

But Italians were not the only ethnic group which was neglected. While the City Council’s Italian-American caucus fumed Thursday over Mamdani’s map which didn’t list Italian enclaves, and pointed out that big Irish and Jewish neighborhoods were also eliminated, his map spotlighted thirty other areas, including Little Palestine, Koreatown, Little Pakistan and Little Odessa.

“You cannot tell the story of immigrant New York while airbrushing out one of the city’s most recognizable and historically significant immigrant communities,” the caucus said in a statement Thursday, calling the omission “incomplete at best and insulting at worst.”

The caucus said the Mamdani administration should work with historians and community groups so the next version of the map gives Italian‑Americans and other groups a fair shake.

“Italian‑Americans are not a footnote in the history of New York,” the group added. “We are one of the city’s foundational immigrant communities, and our neighborhoods, churches, small businesses, feast traditions, civic institutions, and family networks helped build modern New York.”

The Italian Caucus pointed out Belmont in the Bronx, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and Italian‑American pockets in Queens and Staten Island are also neighborhoods where Italian roots run deep.

But this is typical of actions by the Socialist Mayor. He has frequently neglected history of his city, while glorifying the groups who pay homage to his agenda.

Hopefully, New Yorkers will remember this in November and elect a new Governor, who will remove this disaster from New York City under the State Constitution before he destroys it completely. 

The current governor certainly does not have the guts or nerve to do it.

More Failure by Democrat “Leaders”

​Once upon a time, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand happily endorsed Graham Platner for the Democrat nomination for Senator from Maine after Janet Mills withdrew from the primary race. They thought this Democrat Nazi was an excellent choice to run against RINO Senator Susan Collins in the Fall.

Now, they are calling on Platner to “immediately withdraw” from the Maine Senate race after the embattled Democratic candidate was accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend. 

 “The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing – violence, abuse and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable,” the New York Democrats said in a statement released by the DSCC.

“Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,” Schumer and Gillibrand continued.

They publicly backed Platner even after he met with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill last month following bombshell reports in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal about the former oyster farmer’s suggestive texts with at least six women.

They were so blinded by their need to win this Senate seat that they ignored all the warning signs Platner freely revealed before and during that primary. And afterwards, too.

Doesn’t say much for their evaluation and vetting of their candidates. Does it!?

Most recently, Jenny Racicot, Platner’s ex-girlfriend, alleged in a Politico piece published Monday that the Maine Senate hopeful drunkenly broke into her home and raped her about five years ago.

But it took until now for Schumer and Gillibrand to grow a spine and join many other Democrats to call on Platbrt to step aside. As usual, Schumer, the Minority Leader, stuck a finger in the air to see which  way the political wind was blowing. Then, he humpfed up like a big shot to act like he had a pair.

It is time for New Yorkers to send these two failures out to pasture before they can do any more harm to the State and the Country.

Celebrating Independence Day Weekend

​It has been a week since this writer posted anything about anything. A well-deserved vacation to recharge the batteries was needed, even though much activity was occurring over the last few days, including the celebration of 250 years of our Glorious Independence and Liberty.

The world went on as usual, with the same pluses and minuses as it always has. And, by the way, the anticipation of the wedding of the year spectacular is also finally behind us. T and T FINALLY got married. Thank God, we could not take any more of PAGE SIX.

Iran is still acting like a belligerent tyrant during this period of ceasefire while rattling its destroyed weapons. And is still murdering innocent civilians, who only want water and lights, all while the occupiers blaspheme God. 

In New York City, Socialist (Communist) Mayor Mamdani continues to push his anti-American agenda even harder since his candidates beat traditional Democrats in the recent primary. 

And has the audacity to sit behind George Washington’s desk denigrating this country as he mocked Independence Day calling out the “powerful” who treat American ideals as a given only for the “select few.”   But he forgot to mention the sacrifices made by so many who made this country great.

“We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,” he intoned. “We see the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.”

Spoken like a true Socialist, born with a Communist spoon in his mouth.

But enough about him. Instead, we can remember that we still live in a country where we can say anything, even when we disagree, knowing that no other country has that same freedom. And can condemn same without fear of reprisal.

God Bless America, Land that I Love.