Sure. When I heard that Sandy Alderson had said that the Mets can win 90 games, I thought he was out of his mind too. But just as the key to good conversation is to know your audience, the key to good lip service is the same. Alderson knows his audience:
At a staff meeting a couple of days ago, Sandy Alderson told Mets executives and baseball personnel that he strongly believes that the ballclub can and maybe even should win 90 games this season. (…) Fred Wilpon chimed in at one point with his own pointed assessment. "We better win 90," he said, according to a source.
Yeah. We better win 90 … or Jeffy's going to change radio announcers! Then who's sorry?
We know what happens when Mets personnel sets lofty goals, whether it be .500, or third place. They usually go "thud". But this is one of those where I'm going to guess that the First Family of Flushing lit up some expensive cigars and asked "Well Sandy, how many games do you think we can win this season?" Sandy, rattling off some platitudes while the wheels in his brain are trying to figure out what the hell number he's going to give them that is equal parts sexy and sane … finally comes up with "90" in a fit of panic. Freddy then says "we better win 90" before he, Golden Sperm and Uncle Saul have a hearty chuckle, finish off the bottle of courvoisier before renting a helicopter to Miami. All the while Sandy shakes his head while looking at the picture of Matt Harvey in his wallet thinking: "What the hell did I just do?"
But that's just one scenario.
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