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It's Time For The Mets To Fire Donnie Stevenson

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As someone that loves Pete Alonso, made up characters, and the entire vibe of Donnie Stevenson, it brings me no great joy to say the Mets need to fire his fictional ass ASAmotherfuckingP. Not because I don't think it was a fun gimmick or anything. But because of the cold, hard data about what the Mets have done once the "actual" Donnie appeared on Pete Alonso's revived Instagram.

Since this Donnie showed up, the Mets are 2-5, have been shutout THREE times, and are averaging less than two runs a game. It doesn't take some Ivy League sabermetrics nerd to know those are piss poor numbers equal to the Chili Davis Era. Don't get me wrong, the actor or wrestler or whoever this Donnie is in real life seems like a fine fella. Maybe he could get me into shape so I don't get winded while writing blogs or help train the team considering they are dropping like flies again. But I am a big juju guy and there is simply no denying that the Mets offense has gone into the shitter ever since their fictional hitting coach got a face. 

Donnie was the perfect guy to rally around when the bats were asleep and the offense was completely dead. However, the Mets were doing just fine with series wins over the Padres and Cubs and no series losses in almost a month. So it's time for Uncle Stevie to deactivate Donnie's keycard, Pete to put his IG back on hiatus, and the Mets bats to start hitting again because they are going to need the offense if the Baseball Gods are going to start plucking pitchers away now that guys are actually returning from injury.

Again, I hate scapegoating anybody and calling for someone's job. Yet I think I can make an exception for a fictional character in this case, especially since Pete got his All-Star hype video out of it.

#VotePeteAlonso #FireDonnieStevenson #OrAtLeastMakeDonnieStevenson"WorkFromHome" #LFGM

Also on today's pod we talk about:

- The Bench Mob starting to play like bench players and Triple A guys starting to play like Triple A players

- What do the Mets do with their overperforming players once the starters come back (The Injury Gods seem to be taking care of this on their own)

 - The mindfuck of excitement and fear that comes with rooting for Jacob deGrom as he works through these random injuries

- How a Mets Electric Chair with Frank The Tank could result in multiple deaths here at Barstool