Mike's Mets - Stuff You Should Have Learned in Junior High School

 

By Mike Steffanos February 2, 2021 

What a strange few months this has been. When Steve Cohen was approved as the Mets new owner it seemed that this offseason would be all about significant player moves and signings, something Mets fans like myself have been hoping to see for years. The trade for Francisco Lindor was all that and then some, but all of the extracurricular noise has overshadowed it a bit. In fact, I had to look up the exact date of the deal and was shocked to realize it went down less than a month ago. Then it occurred to me that it's only  been two weeks since Jared Porter was shown the door, and barely over three months since Steve Cohen's purchase was approved. Didn't he used to have a Twitter account, or am I remembering that wrong? I know time feels different since COVID-19 gummed everything up, but this is nuts. I picked an interesting year, indeed, to return to blogging.

Now we can add the news about Mickey Callaway to the rest of the drama, craziness and occasional creepiness of this offseason. Like Jared Porter before him, Calloway was too much of a he-man to accept no for an answer from the women who caught his eye. He knew that an unsolicited shirtless pic of himself would surely seal the deal with the most reluctant of female reporters stubbornly insisting on maintaining a professional relationship. I mean, access has to be worth something, am I right?

In the space of barely over two weeks, I have little doubt that the Porter/Callaway revelations will result in permanent changes to the Mets hiring practices. I'd be surprised if there was a single club in all of MLB that will fail to completely vet any major new hire for bad behavior. I think it's also a safe bet that the Mets organization will have a heart-to-heart with all of their existing employees about how to handle being in the same room with women without indulging in termination-worthy sleaziness.

If I was Sandy Alderson, tougher vetting rules and letting male employees in on the news that the Mets organization is no longer a boy's club would only be the starting point of adjusting to the new reality. 

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