Mets should be ashamed of “Hawk Tuah Girl’s” first pitch on Camp Day
Is there a psychiatrist in the house?
A commissioner of Major League Baseball?
Cohen, you are Steve.
The general manager of the Mets?
A quality control officer?
How about a good old-fashioned teacher/nun with a ruler?
Thursday afternoon was Camp Day at Citi Field, thousands of children in the stadium, many of them already irreversibly desensitized and antisocialized by the commercial stimuli that assault their delicate central nervous systems before they can distinguish the bad from the worse.
So the Mets did what any prudent and cautious babysitter would do:
A 22-year-old woman who had suddenly become famous and gained a large following thanks to a TikTok video in which she mimed preparing for oral sex was invited. She was dressed in a Mets jersey and then honored by having her throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Take it, counselors! Explain it to the children you are supposed to be accompanying. If you know or don’t know who she is and why she was invited to a major league game and honored, try to tell the children. After all, she is on everyone’s cell phone.
Not that some of the 11-year-olds didn’t already know this, because social media is what it is now… and Rob Manfred and Co. are the careless game destroyers that they are, even though Manfred has stated that his top priority is to do the right thing and keep the kids as fans.
Look at where we ended up and then ask why we are here.
We’ve just finished the Olympics of obese drag queens, which were supposed to be hosted by a career creep – the down-to-earth, oft-arrested rapper/mumbler Snoop Dogg. He had as much to do with the Olympics as this young woman’s sexual habits had to do with the Mets, with the exception of Pete Alonso’s classy “LFGM,” which the Mets should have thrown in a dumpster long ago.
Just last season, Manfred and the Dodgers gave the honor of Pride Night on the field to unshaven, corpulent, Catholic-cowardly, cross-dressing men dressed as nuns, since they were considered legitimate representatives of LA’s gay population.
There was virtually no media outrage.
Yet when Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker expressed his belief that family comes first at a Catholic college graduation ceremony, the NFL and the media condemned such words as if he were a radical, anti-American subversive activist or, worse, as if family shouldn’t be valued so highly.
As ESPN royalty Serena Williams, host of the ESPYs, explained to Butker in the audience, his mind could use an immediate cleansing and transformation. Only a subversive extremist of any religion, even none, would have the audacity to declare that his or her family deserves a No. 1 ranking.
The Mets have taken such a low route before, when they honored gutter rapper 50 Cent with the tattooed face by having him throw out the first pitch.
Why Fiddy? Because he’s from Queens. So being from Queens was a bigger accomplishment than his arrests for possession of crack, heroin, and a gun.
Yet around the same time, the Mets fired two longtime employees, including their popular stadium announcer, because a newly hired eavesdropper complained that she had heard one of them telling the other a dirty joke.
But imagine being the parent of children entrusted to counselors and camps for safe entertainment, and then arriving at an afternoon Mets game where the game begins with a ceremony honoring a young woman known among the socially disadvantaged for performing oral sex.
Why?! Tell us why! What were the Mets thinking? Couldn’t they find anyone more worthy? Or did they know that this kind of team promotion would be passively allowed by Manfred and his useful idiots?
Or were they inspired by Roger Goodell’s classy, “family first” pornographic Super Bowl halftime shows?
If it is still possible to shame the shameless, the Mets, Steve Cohen and Rob Manfred owe a few thousand families an apology. Or, worse, a refund.
A bench press exercise alone does not cure laziness
Aaron Boone Baseball doesn’t just disappear. Not even after Gleyber Torres was briefly benched for hitting a single with a double.
A big moment in a big game will come when Juan Soto reaches a huge base short because he chose to pose at the plate before running to first base. (See: Giancarlo Stanton in Boston in the Yanks’ wild-card loss that ended the 2021 season.)
In a loss to the White Sox on Monday, Soto was ejected from first base in a close game because he decided to look at his line drive with a rebound, only to get hit with his glove while diving.
Hard-to-support WNBA star Angel Reese, who is anything but angelic, has complained that she has suffered not because of her outrageous behavior but rather because of sexism.
Last week, she posed for photos as usual, in a tiny pink bikini. But the frightened, compliant media has learned to ignore such obvious truths.
Both the Yankees’ “YES” broadcasts and the Mets’ “SNY” broadcasts continue to overlay false strike zones on the live game and then offer them as replay evidence to prove that the home plate umpire’s call was wrong.
Let’s try again: The prescribed striking zone is from the hips to the knees. It does not start at the belt line, as you see on TV.
The only time the hitter’s size is taken into consideration is when Aaron Judge is at the plate. YES stretches this field vertically to reflect his 6-foot-tall size.
Lots of great party, little profit
The Mets have a well-rehearsed and strictly regulated order of celebration: from parading “OMG” signs in the dugout to home run skits to signaling approval in the dugout after hitting an – OMG! – single.
Does it matter that they are extremely mediocre, getting swept in Seattle and then losing two of three games at home to the Triple-A A’s? No.
Where are all the confident female activists who refuse to be silenced and protest against the fact that biological men can be easily defeated and often injured in sporting competitions by smaller, naturally weaker opponents? Why are they silent?
Or do they consider advocating fair play to be political?
With ESPN Radio-NY moving to 880, reader Jeff Cohen writes that it will be interesting when “The Michael Kay Show” airs as a pre-show to Mets games.
And as WCBS News Radio 880 sadly came to an end this month, we remember a brilliant sentence spoken on that station.
It came in 2014 from sports presenter Gordon Damer.
After Damer reported that the Phillies had traded pitcher Roberto Hernandez to the Dodgers, he added that Hernandez was formerly known as Fausto Carmona.
He concluded with the news that the Phils “will receive two players whose names will be announced later.”
