
It has been just six weeks since the start of the 2026 season and the Mets are about to call it a season. This probably is one the earliest times in recent history that it was apparent even to loyal, long-suffering fans that this team has no real hope for a rebound.
The team has had its share of injuries, as some of the most essential players are down. And will be out for quite some time.
They have won only four of their last ten games, and have won a total of twelve games of the thirty-four they have played. It truly does not bode well for even a .500 season.
Other than the upcoming Yankee series during the next homestand, the 40th anniversary of the 1986 World Series, the Mets Hall of Fame Inductees game and the Carlos Beltran Number retirement game, as it stands right now, the other promotional games are not much to spend a week’s pay to see this team while you enjoy a ten dollar hot dog and a twenty dollar beer. Is it?
I know some people who are already selling tickets to games in their season packages, just so they don’t have to endure the pain of watching the Team That Stearns Destroyed in person. Instead, they can suffer this debacle from the comfort of their living rooms. And not feel guilty shutting it off.
Steve Cohen, who is a life-long fan like me, may need to rethink several things going forward. First, he needs to stop criticizing the fans on X. It doesn’t help his image at all.
Then, he needs to re-evaluate what needs to be addressed as he prepares for next season, since getting a handle on that will give him a leg up to put a better team on the field. And third, he needs to get rid of the “boy wonder”, who still thinks like a small market executive, as he proves he knows very little about evaluating talent.
New York writers, who are generally very knowledgeable, have been too diplomatic by letting Stearns grin-fxxk his way for too long. He actually was seen smiling and laughing during the twelve-game losing streak.
Sadly, the “Cohen promise” of achieving a World Series championship within his first five years will not be realized this year. Or in the next two years, either.
Instead, knowledgeable fans already recognize it is time to blow it all up and start the rebuilding now. And start it by getting a real general manager, not one so concerned with a fancy title.
And as always: Let’s Go Mets!
