Some teams — even not especially good ones — are able to give their fans something to talk about through their on-field play.
Other teams introduce $15 filet mignon sandwiches and unveil All-Star Game logos so they can start selling merchandise almost a year ahead of time.
Sigh.
As long as the money keeps rolling in, and they aren’t going to take Wilpon’s favorite toy away from him, the Mets future may not be quite as bright as we’d like it to be. Maybe it’s time to dig up the corpse of baseball hack, I meant writer, Dick Young, and shove a wooden stake through his heart. After all, the Mets have not won a World Series since Young died in ’87.
The logo unveiling is most likely all on MLB. The Royals did it five days earlier last year. I have no idea what brought about the LaFrieda sandwich. August is a weird time to be offering a new food item, but I do think it’s pretty wild that this thing has never been offered for sale anywhere else.