The Mets should wear these jerseys for BP

Next season the Mets should wear something like this during Spring Training and Batting Practice.
I just like that it’s something different.

MLB Players and Agents love the S word.

Baseball Players and they agents keep inferring to strikes and collusion. This is an interesting read from the NY POST about the "nuclear option".

This year, it’s Phillies pitcher Pat Neshek, who dipped his toe in the strike waters.
“It’s sad to see. It stinks. They want to go cheaper, the front offices. I think we signed a bad CBA, personally,” the 12-year veteran said, via The Athletic on Wednesday. “When there’s a little disrespect, when the revenues are going up, and the portion that’s being paid to the players is consistently declining, there’s going to be an issue.

“It’s going to get pretty ugly. The smart front offices, a lot of those guys might not have jobs anymore, because we’re not going to have baseball. It’s a respect issue.”
If they’re not going to have baseball, that means one side would be holding out. The “smart” front offices are typically the ones that spend frugally, finding talent on the margins at costs they can live with. Or they don’t spend on established players at all, investing in their farm systems, where they can produce players on rookie contracts. They can tank to get better draft picks, turn those picks into major league players in a few years and develop a system that theoretically can eventually yield wins for cheap. That’s the hope at least.

That groupthink has infested baseball, and the more free-wheeling, money-spending GMs have disappeared. Emerging have been the voices of angry players, whose CBA doesn’t expire until December 2021. Emerging have been angry agents like CAA’s Jeff Berry, who released a memo proposing pitchers cap their workload to ensure teams don’t use them up before they can hit free agency.

Read more here.

The Baseball Players signed a bad CBA according to Neshak. If the members of the union believe that then it's time to clean house on who negotiated that deal on them. I'm in a union. My union leaders try to do the best for the members of that union. They aren't going to ask us to ratify a deal that weakens the union. They know once you give something up you aren't getting it back. I also don't know if baseball can survive another strike. If as an MLBPA member you don't like what your leadership has done for you, get rid of them. Would it be able to rebound? Who can you market to bring it back? Baseball is already losing fans by the stadium load. Owners, Players, Agents all want the most money they can get. I get that and it is after all a business. The players are putting themselves into the position with fans that is not going to be a good look. Fans are going to start calling them spoiled and whiners etc. This is all going to get ugly.

Men's New York Mets New Era Orange Alternate Logo 59FIFTY Fitted Hat

I would love to see this cap as an alternate on field. Maybe even for BP.

@Metspolice,Main Stream Media, Mets and deGrom

From the NY POST

PORT ST. LUCIE —

Now this is a bluff The Post would love to see called.

If Jacob deGrom doesn’t get his desired long-term extension by his Opening Day deadline, would he actually take the Nationals Park mound on March 28, clock six shutout innings while throwing 62 pitches and then, when asked about pitching the seventh, borrow an old Herman Melville line and declare, “I would prefer not to”?
Very likely not, as this exaggerates the sort of measures deGrom’s current head agent, Jeff Berry of CAA, proposed in an industry memo last year. Yet by throwing down the gauntlet in their discussions with the Mets, whose general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, just happens to be deGrom’s former head agent, deGrom and company have rolled a hand grenade into this upbeat Mets spring just as pitchers and catchers reported.
And the sobering reality is that neither the Mets nor Van Wagenen has earned the right to call such bluffs. They should buy high on deGrom, advance these slow-moving discussions and give him the five-year, $155.5 million extension The Post’s Joel Sherman outlined in November and hope that commitment puts them in a position to be bolder the next time.

Read more here.

It's funny that the Main Stream Media is catching up on this after @metspolice has been pointing this out.

From Metspolice.com

Speaking to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal, CAA agent Brodie van Wagenen said he and his client had "discussed Jacob’s future with the Mets at length. 

"Jacob has expressed interest in exploring a long-term partnership that would keep him in a Mets uniform for years to come.- USA TODAY

“If the Mets don’t share same interest, we believe their best course of action is to seriously consider trade opportunities now. The inertia of current situation could complicate Jacob’s relationship with the club and creates an atmosphere of indecision." 

That’s Agent Brodie Van Wagenen talking about his client Jacob deGrom last summer.  That was a few months after accusing the owners of collusion and a few months after threatening a lockout.  But you newspaper guys can keep writing sunshine articles, it’s fine, I got this.

Today’s story is that JDG would like an extension.  I will be curious to see what the General Manager does.

Read more at metspolice.com.

Shannon makes a great point now. Does Chief Brodie change up his stance since he's the GM now? Does he still believe that there is collusion in the MLB among owners? Here's a better question that a conspiracy minded person could ask, " Did Brodie get the Mets GM job to get him to stop mentioning the collusion word?" I am not saying that this is the reason but that a person who is a conspiracy buff could ask this.

MLB 150 patch...It is boring.

Man this patch is so boring. So,so,so,so boring. Who came up with this?