For Mets, It's Almost Impossible...
This franchise was built on the impossible. Unfortunately, that pendulum swings both ways
Zack Scott, the New York Mets’ third general manager in a little under a calendar year, added to the ever-growing pile of nonsense this organization endures with his wee-hours DUI arrest in White Plains, New York on Tuesday morning.
The Carvel ice cream helmet publicly hit the fan around 3 PM EST on Wednesday. Per Mike Puma’s initial report in the New York Post, Scott was arrested while sleeping in his car on a public street in White Plains at 4:17 AM EST. He refused a Breathalyzer test but failed a field sobriety test and was taken into custody.
News surfaced a short time later that Scott, as well as a number of other organizational and on-field employees, were attending an Amazin’ Mets Foundation fund-raiser at Steve Cohen’s family home in Greenwich, CT earlier in the evening, with festivities wrapping up at “around 8:30-9:00 PM,” per multiple reports.
Clearly, we don’t know what happened between the hours that the party reportedly ended and when Scott was arrested. But all parties can agree that, in any scenario, his actions once he left his boss’ house were extremely irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
Take a freaking Uber, man.
The team released a statement on Wednesday afternoon, announcing that Scott would not be traveling with the team when they travel to Washington and Miami this weekend as they “learn more and determine next steps”.
Where have we heard that one before?
As many of us are aware, controversy has followed this team closely in recent months. And years. And decades.
Reports of internal harassment throughout the Wilpon era. The appalling Mickey Callaway and Jared Porter fiascos. The team’s very public pursuit of very publicly troubled right-hander Trevor Bauer. The list could go on.
In an overwhelming majority of these recent cases, most have featured team president Sandy Alderson as, at the very least, an enabling figure, if not much more.
If culture change is the goal, as Cohen has proclaimed it to be since his introductory press conference, he may want to start at the top and work his way down. Thankfully, in this, his first year at the helm of the franchise, there’s plenty of time for that.
It really is almost impossible how this organization continues to find itself in these messes. Though, almost impossible is and has always been this team’s modus operandi. Unfortunately, as we’ve noticed, that pendulum swings both ways.
But, really. Think about it.
The 1969 Mets going from laughingstock to World Series champions in a matter of months? Almost impossible.
As noted here on Wednesday, the Mets going from worst to first over the last month in 1973? Making up two-and-a-half games with five to play in 1999 to reach Game 163? Almost impossible.
The 2021 Mets hitting .177/.272/.301 with runners in scoring position in August, going 9-19 over that span? Almost impossible.
This team losing a dozen or so games in the standings over the last four weeks, yet still holding onto a sliver of hope that they can pull themselves back into the race? Almost impossible.
Escaping the Wilpons yet being unable to escape the drama? Almost impossible.
Five games out, 30 to go. LFGM.
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