Brodie Van Wagenen's Tenure As Mets GM Got Off To A Hot Start After Mike Francesa Laughed In His Face While Discussing The Mets Lineup

The entire interview:

Welcome to New York, Brodie Van Wagenen! I can’t believe that is your real name but that is also the most Mets GM name possible for a guy that has no experience in a baseball front office. Most new Mets GMs and managers get their Welcome to New York moment during their introductory press conference as the sharks in the New York media go for their neck with a tough question or the moment they realize that the Wilpons are human gutterballs. But Brodie’s press conference was super short (likely not by mistake since the media could have had a feeding frenzy asking a GM with no experience about a team that was a dumpster fire last season) and Brodie has known Jeff Wilpon is an absolute zero for years since he was the one begging for every nickel his clients could get when negotiating with the Mets.

But as usual, Numbah One was the video game final boss for the new Mets GM since he doesn’t dare pick apart his buddy Jeff Wilpon, the true cause of our problems. And to be honest, I kinda love Brodie for going back at Mike the way he did. If you are going to let Mike Francesa shove you around your first day on the job, you might as well just roll over and die because you will never win him over. Actually I don’t know if you can ever actually win over Mike without kissing his ass and losing your pride. But you can at least shut him up with some wins.

However, Brodie fought back like someone who doesn’t have a soft ass name like Brodie and went back at Mike trying to sell that the Mets are actually good. I don’t know if B-V-Dubya (this sounds much cooler than Brodie) truly believes that the Mets have a good roster or has to say that since he is the one that negotiated like half of their contracts. But he at least sounded like a guy who thought this team could compete like all of us idiot Mets fans will do once the weather starts getting warm outside and we forgot the pain we just went through, like a woman who is hankering to give birth to another kid once she heals up. In fact the idiot fan in me convinced myself that the reason Brodie worded his answer the way it did because he believes that Manny Machado will be the Mets cleanup hitter for the foreseeable future but obviously couldn’t say that. And all the bullshit we saw out of Machado in the playoffs and being a guy that would cause Mets fans to lose their MIND hammered this theory home, even if this meant that Wilpons would have to actually act like big market owners. Nonetheless, I’d rather have a GM that doesn’t bend the knee to someone who couldn’t name 10 players or even the managers of the other 4 NL East teams as he shits on the Mets for the next 10 years of darkness instead of someone that plays footsie with Mike as he continues to make the franchise a punchline on New York radio for the foreseeable future.

Speaking of being a punchline, this was pretty goddamn good.