Look, you and I know that this is going to happen. So when Tim Tebow has his workout for major league scouts later this month, the Mets should just remove all pretense and send a scout. You know Jeffy wants to. A ticket draw bigger than Yoenis Cespedes? He’d fill up Brooklyn in his sleep. Then it would be 40,000 every night at Citi Field just to see if Tim Tebow could play baseball … or at least hope that Tebow will bless this franchise with some divine mercy so that the Mets no longer put an entire starting lineup on the disabled list year after year. Not a lot to ask, right?
He’s going to be a lefty hitting corner outfielder? Hell, he’ll fit right in. Not filling an immediate need didn’t stop the Jets from trading for him. (Then again, nothing on earth can stop the Jets from doing something stupid when they’re hell bent on it.) We’ll be the Knicks of the mid-aughts when seven of their 12 roster spots were taken up by 6’7″ power forwards. So let’s sign him and make Jay Bruce wonder if he’s playing for his job. It’ll “light a fire” under him, right? Sure.
Look, everything the Mets are doing now do nothing more than rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. Jose Reyes’ rehab is stalled because … oh yeah … he’s injury prone! we forgot after all these years. So now, in assumption that Reyes is the reason, the Mets are sending down Brandon Nimmo and bringing up T.J. Rivera, the leading hitter in the PCL. Does anybody really believe that T.J. Rivera is going to save the Mets? Or are we all just going to talk ourselves into it because we have nothing else left to hope for this season. I hope to Tebow that Rivera does save the team. But I think the Olympics has us looking harder for narrative and romance then ever before. And Rivera is from the Bronx, so … what a nice story. But let’s face it, Rivera is going to have to hit .700 to save this team.
This was the week the Mets were supposed to make up ground, with this year’s Padres … the Diamondbacks, and last year’s Padres … the Padres, coming to town this week. On Tuesday, after Neil Walker’s two run homer put a charge into the team and the crowd by giving the Mets a 3-2 lead, Hansel Robles came in and promptly coughed up three runs to Arizona, including a two run triple to former future Met Michael Bourn, and the Glass Joe Mets couldn’t recover against the bullpen with the worst ERA in baseball. Worst! The final indignity, which I’m sure will be talked about to death and thankfully cause everybody to forget about golf, came when Terry Collins pinch hit Ty Kelly for Travis d’Arnaud with two outs in the ninth. Kelly grounded out to second to end the misery. Pinch hitting for your struggling catcher with a worse hitter as your last hope is fairly stupid. It isn’t as if d’Arnaud is in some crazy deep deep slump. He’s a .234 hitter now, and he’s pretty much been a .230-.240 hitter all year. So why now? Why make a statement with your .234 hitting catcher now by replacing him with somebody hitting .188?
Maybe because Travis d’Arnaud stinks and even he knows it.
Travis d'Arnaud on getting pinch-hit for in the ninth: "I did want that shot, but I've got to play better. Terry made the right decision."
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) August 10, 2016
So let’s end this notion that the Mets aren’t a circus. Because we are. Always will be. So just sign Tim Tebow and get it over with. His presence has already exasperated me with one team, so just go for your money grab and bring him back to New York. You know you want to.
Today’s Hate List
- Enrique Burgos
- Ambiorix Burgos
- Max Scherzer
- Kirk Gibson
- Leon Hess
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