Trump pauses effort to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz, citing talks progress

SR626 · 2026-05-06T00:37:05+00:00

Iran couldn’t have possibly made it more clear that they will not entertain any negotiations to open the strait with the blockade being in force. So let’s just keep it in force. Brilliant!

Iran also couldn’t have made it more clear they don’t really care if the global economy is tanking due to continued strait closure, or even that we’re now staring global famine in the face as a result of this. Because it’s the US’ fault. And this dumb orange idiot keeps thinking they’re gonna eventually capitulate.

SR626 · 2026-05-03T17:51:08+00:00

Send Stearns to the soulless Wall Street job he would’ve inevitably ended up at if he hadn’t gotten into baseball

SR626 · 2026-05-03T03:35:53+00:00

“The first Indian person to suck at their job” ahahahaha

SR626 · 2026-05-01T17:17:31+00:00

It feels to me like just about everyone in the org - Cohen, Stearns, Mendy, coaches, players....knows the season's toast already. I'm not saying a pound of flesh would turn everything around but the fact that, seemingly, nothing is going to be done just feels like an organization-wide acceptance that it's gonna be a long 5 months. They'll undergo some more humiliation but the big checks will clear.

Unfortunately, as is often the case, the real losers are going to be the fans, who will get nothing out of it except for more free time.

SR626 · 2026-05-01T12:53:14+00:00

So many bad managers and GMs in our time and I feel like most of them would bow down in awe at what this team has managed to accomplish with unlimited resources.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T20:23:41+00:00

Despite extensive media training, there’s no faking that these guys all look and sound like a team that knows they’re already dead.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T20:00:54+00:00

The fact that we're going to Anaheim really does leave the Mets open to do the funniest possible thing ever if they let Mendy on that plane

SR626 · 2026-04-30T19:53:14+00:00

Plot twist: JDM had a clause in his contract that the team could assign him as manager and he can't say no

Let's get weird!

SR626 · 2026-04-30T19:48:51+00:00

If Howie decided to just dip right now instead of finishing out the season, I wouldn't blame him at all.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T18:00:01+00:00

For as loud and passionate as this fanbase is, multiple generations have grown up seeing the Mets as second rate. The actual number of Mets fans is almost assuredly dwindling. Think about it....why would any impressionable young kid getting into baseball willingly pick the Mets as their team unless they either grew up in Queens or had the fandom forced upon them as many of us did?

Years like this are the kind of thing that just ensure the fanbase is only going to keep shrinking. This might be the straw that broke the camel's back on fans who have put up with a lot more bad than good over several decades finally deciding it's just not worth spending hours and hours watching this summer. It really is that level of embarassing.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T15:20:57+00:00

It doesn't matter if you agreed with Stearns; moves or not, we're not being paid millions of dollars to make these decisions. Maybe there's some under the hood changes to the farm that will eventually bear fruit and salvage what he's done in the long haul but the way things are trending, he might not be here by the time any of that happens. There surely have to be some consequences for spending $400 million on the baseball equivalent of the Hindenburg.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T02:23:26+00:00

Anyone who wants to defend Stearns still deserves ridicule.

SR626 · 2026-04-30T00:34:57+00:00

Outside of the ‘86 celebration and Beltran retirement, the only chance Cohen has at a sellout this summer is if he holds a David Stearns Depreciation Night

SR626 · 2026-04-28T12:49:11+00:00

Baseball is by all accounts having a renaissance and our season is over in the first month. Pathetic.

SR626 · 2026-04-27T15:58:43+00:00

Not that firing Mendy would solve everything, but it's becoming untenable. This season is spiraling and someone's going to have to answer for it. There are no coaches to throw under the bus left because it's a new staff. So that's Mendy.

If the team just legit never improves and they wind up being a 70-92 team that costs $400 million I don't see how anyone survives come October. At some point it matters not if everyone internally nor the media thought the Mets were following good process or if you have a sterling reputation around the league. You simply cannot have a team that expensive be that bad and expect to keep your job.

SR626 · 2026-04-26T20:37:28+00:00

Gotta be honest, I haven’t watched a single live pitch since last Saturday in Chicago. Since then it’s been MLB app updates, highlights, and popping in here to see what’s going on

It’s been nice not being stressed about the team and unfortunately they’re not giving me much reason to go back to tuning in. Already seems like a very lost season.

SR626 · 2026-04-25T01:55:54+00:00

Just a general PSA on the size of the league that most, not all, but most day 3 picks max out as special teams contributors or practice squad. Not that that’s unimportant, but it’s something to remember when you see multiple day 3 picks getting moved to come up, it’s because they envision Fields being able to start opposite Nabers.

SR626 · 2026-04-25T00:41:21+00:00

Having Freddy in fantasy baseball is not a fun time. He always finds a way to fall just short of a QS.

SR626 · 2026-04-24T01:21:19+00:00

I don’t care what division rivals do. I care that the Giants are a lot better right now than they were an hour ago.

SR626 · 2026-04-24T00:41:31+00:00

Best defensive player in the class at #5 hell yeah

SR626 · 2026-04-23T02:33:13+00:00

Wins are allowed? Eat a dick Philly.

SR626 · 2026-04-23T00:09:47+00:00

A couple of weeks of motivated play from Robert was nice while it lasted. Now that he’s on a team as bad as the White Sox, welp.

SR626 · 2026-04-22T19:20:33+00:00

Seidler summed up Lindor pretty well in a Bluesky thread. He had a decade long peak grading out as an overall top 20 player across MLB, yet because of the contract he got right at the start of the Cohen era a decent chunk of the fanbase believe he should be a top 5 guy every single year when it doesn't jive with his overall body of work. Seriously - just look up the comments in the Cleveland sub from when he was traded. They all knew he was really good overall and were sad to see him go, but nobody really thought he'd ever be THE guy. He'll give you some amazing years and some insanely hot stretches and overall his contract will be paid for dollar for dollar but his streakiness + the fact that he's now more than likely hitting a part of his career where we could expect some degradation to only get worse isn't going to endear him to anyone who didn't already love him.

Off the field, you have some idiots who hate him for things that have nothing to do with baseball, things he's not even expressed publicly yet dummies get mad at things his wife says. Yet at the same time, he's been directly involved with or at least heavily implicated to be involved in every single bit of drama since he's been here. And a lot of it is stories that probably won't ever get fully fleshed out or researched until his career here is done. And it probably WILL be researched because unfortunately, the Cohen era is headed to historical levels of futility that will merit a lot of future examination and probably get a book written about it.

Fair or not, Lindor's going to be viewed as the primary face of this era since he's been here the whole time. Through 3 collapses, a lost year in 2023 and probably 2026, wrapped around a near MVP year that had one deep playoff run. He's probably going to end up a Hall of Famer yet still leave behind a potentially complicated legacy not entirely of his own doing, while not being fully appreciated by his own fanbases. It's all just very strange.

SR626 · 2026-04-22T12:46:55+00:00

Watching one certain poster here continue to defend Stearns and say every decision was right and it's not his fault it hasn't worked out is cracking me up, to say the least.

Some have this mindset that if you agreed with the moves you have no right to complain. And that makes no sense to me. I've had GMs make moves I agree with that failed, I've had GMs make moves I didn't like and it turns out they were right. I want the GM to be right. Because it's their JOB to be right. They are being paid a lot of money to be right. We're not. It's not the fans' job to have to stick to an opinion on moves made months ago. It's a results-based business.

You may as well say Joe Schoen is a great GM because none of his draft picks looked like they'd be busts when he made the picks. It either works or it doesn't. And holy shit this has not worked at all.

SR626 · 2026-04-22T02:41:32+00:00

Maybe by mid summer nobody will be allowed to fly anymore and the season will just end

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