Did we have a Billy Eppler Era? Not quite two years since becoming GM; can’t say they weren’t eventful. Lots of high-profile free agents, which had a lot to do with the owner’s wherewithal to spend, but somebody had to do the hands-on negotiating. Handful of trades that didn’t pan out, then a slew of […]
 
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 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Billy Eppler, Daniel Vogelbach, General Manager, Graceful if Mysterious Exits, Injured List, Investigations It took Lily Tomlin’s character Debbie Fiderer two tries to win the favor of President Bartlet when she interviewed for the executive secretary position on The West Wing, though there was a good excuse for missing on the first try (“I was high”) and, honestly, Fiderer wasn’t really about winning anybody’s favor. “All right,” Martin Sheen […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, General Manager, Sandy Alderson, Steve Cohen, The West Wing, Zoom It’s not a trade in the sense that the Mets and Angels got together and exchanged personnel that they had any contractual right to exchange. Billy Eppler hasn’t worked for the Angels for a while. Noah Syndergaard entered free agency. That the former Angels GM is reportedly heading east to take the same job with […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2022 Mets, Arrivals, Billy Eppler, Departures, General Manager, Noah Syndergaard A friend suggests “LFGM” now stands for Let’s Find a General Manager. Implicit therein is let’s find a general manager who isn’t as apparently icky as the Mets GM whose stay in the job was brief and whose sudden dismissal from it became fait accompli once certain absolutely damning facts came to light. On Monday night, […] Someday maybe, maybe someday soon, Jared Porter will be “Jared” to us. For now, he is “Porter,” and that fits. America has been saddled with enough celebrity Jareds of late. We’ve also had our run of celebrity general managers. “Brodie” came to us a master of hype — wasn’t he loudly threatening to guide Jacob deGrom […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Celebrities, General Manager, Jared Porter We should all be able to introduce ourselves amid resounding employer-generated fanfare when changing careers the way Brodie Van Wagenen did as he left superagenting and shifted into hopefully super general managing. We should all have the kind of top shelf opportunity available to us when we […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Culture, General Manager, The Simpsons On Van Wagenen’s Eve, when all we Whos in Whoville gathered around the great big archetype and tried to divine how exactly a superagent morphed overnight into a general manager, we reflected briefly on how we stayed engaged by Metsless baseball for the better part of a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Postseason, Alex Cora, Astros, Bob Uecker, Brewers, Brodie Van Wagenen, Bull Durham, Curtis Granderson, Dodgers, General Manager, Justin Turner, Red Sox, Sausages, World Series Ending Sandy Alderson is reported far and wide as a done deal for Mets GM, likely to be announced as official on Friday. Then what? Why, he will whip this sad sack outfit into shape; imbue it with a perpetually winning, statistically driven philosophy; stock it with a finely calibrated mix of veterans and youngsters; fill out the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Expectations, General Manager, Hope, Sandy Alderson There is a mathematical formula that can be applied to offseasons that follow bad seasons: (Rumor X Big Name) + (Frustration ÷ Impatience) = Desire – Logic Usually you do the math, multiply it by too many years and add a big, fat $ in front of it. It’s how you get weighed down by contracts like […] George H.W. Bush, one of six U.S. presidents to have served while a Wilpon has been running the Mets, once attempted to combat perceptions that he was oblivious to people’s problems by declaring, “Message: I care.” Bill Clinton, the president who succeeded him when that message proved unconvincing, famously empathized with Americans, “I feel your […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Bill Clinton, Fred Wilpon, General Manager, George H.W. Bush, Hope, Jeff Wilpon, Jerry Manuel, Mets Managers, Omar Minaya, Ownership, public relations, Team History |
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