Post Tagged with: "New York Mets"

This Age of Athlete Activism is Rooted in 9/11

Soon after the Twin Towers fell on September 11th, 2001, I received a phone call from Los Angeles. The voice of the Fox Sport Net assignment desk editor was hurried and bit tentative. “It is all hands on deck. Fox News is asking all our reporters in New York to […]

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Thumbs Up or Down?

August was a bad month for the New York Mets.  They started the month on a high note.  They were the first-place team in the NL East and had made a blockbuster deal with the Cubs to acquire star shortstop Javier Baez.  Injured pitchers Jacob DeGrom and Noah Syndergaard were […]

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Escaping Toxic Culture- The New York Mets Challenges

There is little purpose in rooting for or even loving a team that fails to extend an honest effort or reasonable level of respect to their fans. That’s true of players and management alike, and every franchise should begin to make a reasonable effort to eliminate sexual and gender based harassment from their culture because it is the right thing to do.

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