Mack’s Mets Report – 2-13-16 – Jenry Mejia, Backup First base, David Wright

Good morning.

Move over Pete Rose.

We don’t have to worry when Jenrry Mejia is coming back.

The jerk off was banned FOR LIFE for his third drug bust. He tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid.

What's even more stupid is this is the same drug he got busted for before.

This is the first time any major league baseball player has reached this level of absurdity. For some strange reason, he will be able to filed for reinstatement in one year and could come back in two. I guess that’s what baseball defined as ‘life’.

Mejia said through his agent that he did nothing wrong and plans on appealing the decision. Right now there's nothing in place within major league baseball to deal with this mess. Maybe some day down the road, but not now.

Like I and all of NYC cares.

I’m Facebook friends with this asshole. He hasn’t had an entry since February 5^th.

I always thought that a lifetime banning in football should have been called The Vick Rule. The Mejia Rule sounds appropriate here.

Take a good look at his picture on the top of this post. It's the last time you will see him on my blog.

I noticed that there’s been some friendly spin the past few days about both Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki taking some turns during spring training on first base. They both seem to open to the opportunity of expanding both the depth of their game and the chances of just getting in more of them, by spelling Lucas Duda through some of his expected dry spells.

Listen… I don’t want to sound like a prude on top of just being a crusty old school dude, but the major leagues are not the level that you are supposed to screw around trying to learn another position to play. If you want to be the backup first baseman, go back down to the minors and learn the position by creating the least amount of down time for your teammates.

And while I’m on this lack of having a backup first baseman on this team, this isn’t the fault of the players that have been assembled. But this could become the Achilles Heal of this team if Duda goes down with a major injury and all you have is five outfielders and two catchers that have collectively played 23 games at first.

Oh by the way… no help from Roger Bernadina here… he played only one game at first.

Your only help could be T.J. Rivera who has played 25 in 2014 for St. Lucie and a very green, very young Dominic Smith who simply is too young and too green to step up as quickly as Michael Conforto did out in left field. There’s a big difference between a high school senior and who they play against and a college junior with three more years under his belt.

No folks… if the 2016 Mets wind up sinking like the Titanic this could be one of the reasons the boat slid into those icebergs. (Yikes, that was a shitty analogy).

David Wright –

“The postseason is addicting, but we have a challenge. We’re going to have a bull’s-eye on our back, we are not going to sneak up on anybody this year. When you are the National League champions, you get everybody’s ‘A’ game, not just the players, but the fans. The fans come out to root against you on the road, so it’s going to be hostile environments on the road, it’s going to be teams wanting to knock off the National League champs.

Instead of the hunter, we are now the hunted. We’ll see how we respond to that.

We can’t rest on what we accomplished last year, we have to worry about coming together as a team this spring and getting the job done. I want this team to play for one another like last year.

Mack – Frankly, this is what Wright does the best and he needs to keep it up.

This is the primary role of a team captain. Sure, it’s okay to catch a grounder and hit a home run every once in a while, bit, in my book, stay on the microphone and keep the teammates grounded.

We all hope and pray that Wright stays healthy this year, but this team has, unlike first base, other players on the 25-man squad that can fill in here.

The least you want here is this guy in your dugout, not out west in some rehab farm.