I'm the problem
Morning Dose: Monday, May 25
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☀️ Good Morning:
When I left Knicks Film School to my partner Jonathan Macri and decided to start a newsletter about the Mets, we were in a much different place than where we find ourselves today.
The Knicks had missed out (yet again) on their grand plans to woo a top free agent and remained near the bottom of the standings, while Steve Cohen was taking over the Mets.
A naive sports fan might have thought at the time that the coming years promised brighter days for the baseball team in blue and orange than they did for the similarly-colored basketball squad.
Seven years later, we find the Mets at the bottom of the standings, while the Knicks are one win away from advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years.
🙋 Maybe I’m the problem.
Or, as Morgan Wallen puts it, If I'm the problem, well, you might be the reason.
We don’t have to root for this team. We could be Yankee fans. The Mets could turn those Wallen lyrics right back around on us and ask, If I'm so awful, then why'd you stick around this long? That’s fair.
But the reason I’m pulling on lyrics from a trite country song on this Monday morning is because Cohen’s Mets have failed us so miserably.
They make us question why we even turn the game on anymore, when we could be watching a movie, the Knicks, or grass grow, and be more entertained.
Whatever brief moment of excitement (or refuge) we found in the stint following the call up of A.J. Ewing is gone. On a mile marker date that is supposed to represent the beginning of summer, the season already feels over.
