The Mets Released Adrian Gonzalez And Called Up Dom Smith But Somehow Did Nothing About Jose Reyes

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I guess Sandy and the boys finally realized that they needed to keep the momentum going after Seth Lugo, Todd Frazier, and Fedora Man sparked the Mets to a victory last night. So they finally took Adrian Gonzalez behind the shed and took him out of his misery before bring up his replacement Dom Smith. If Jay Bruce isn’t sitting on the finest piece of real estate in the SunTrust Park visitor’s dugout tonight and Jose Reyes isn’t “retiring” the same way Tom Coughlin “retired” from the Giants, all of this is one big fat half measure. Which is exactly what the Mets are famous for. Band Aids for battle wounds.

Adrian Gonzalez was allegedly supposed to be a part-time player that would “mentor” Smith. Then Dom got hurt, didn’t set the world on fire once he was healthy, and the Mets settled into their comfortably numb state with Gonzalez that they have had with Jose Reyes and the entire mess behind the plate over the last few years. That’s how you end up with a 36-year-old player that nobody else wanted in your lineup every single day despite making the veteran minimum. You can blame the Baseball Maverick all you want. But I’m sure he would have rather spent a dickload of someone else’s money on an Eric Hosmer instead of hoping for the best from an aging first baseman that the Dodgers couldn’t cut fast enough or a guy that has never been able to take the job at first and put up a .262/.346/.374 split in the minors this season with 2 HR who best case could become the Black Dave Magadan. And if Jose Reyes didn’t get cut during a roster purge that occurred the same night he pulled this shit, he is never getting cut.

We all know where these problems truly begin and it isn’t the GM’s office.

Then again, numbers like Dom put up in AAA this season would be an upgrade if they actually carried over to the Big League squad. But they won’t and that’s okay. At this point we are just hoping whatever good mojo Fedora Man gave us last night can at least help the Mets score a few runs for Jacob deGrom every so often and convince the bullpen to change their brand of gasoline from Super to Regular.

Release the memes.