Under Met Advisement

Saw it coming. The pressure would mount on the New York Mets Amidst the firings for the sign stealing scandal, Carlos Beltran was fired from his managing job before he could even manage a game. I don't think they had a choice. New York is one of the toughest sports cities to impress and the idea of a cheater managing didn't sit well.

Although he was a player during the 2017 season, he was the only player implicated in the MLB reports. How much involvement would be the next logical question, but he would be protected by the players union. I think that's the most frustrating part is that none of the players got punished. But it would be difficult because of Rob Manfred's relations with the players association not being good for one. Two, the amount of involvement varies and other players play for other teams. Three, it wouldn't do any good with the union in the way. One day, players will have to take their lumps and accept their own punishments.

And if I'm the Mets, I would be embarrassed about how stupid their advisor Jessica Mendoza is. I've never liked her on ESPN. She adds no value to a broadcast and hasn't since 2015. I don't know if she's that brain dead, but to go on about Mike Fiers and saying he shouldn't have said anything? She was speaking on behalf of ESPN, but Fiers exposed the Astros cheating to the world. Without it, who knows how much more cheating could have happened.

I see it as a conflict of interest considering the firing of Beltran right around her comments about Fiers. The suggestion on removing Mendoza from Sunday Night Baseball is a thought, but that could be ESPN revitalizing their major sport broadcasts. That's not to say Mendoza is that terrible, but she doesn't belong on an MLB broadcast. Have her do softball games or as some newspapers said, work pre-game and analyze the specifics of players for the match ups for the Sunday night game. But her comments cast a dark shadow over her.

I'm not a Met fan, but even I would be in disgust with this week. Like I said, they didn't have much choice with Beltran and the Mendoza comments are mind numbingly bad. This will go down as THE worst week for MLB as a whole in its 150 years.