Where Do The Mets Go From Here? | TNF Preview | Possible Court Drama – Bart & Carlin – 12/11/25
Knicks continue to be the main talking points in a potential Giannis trade and will their be more new about Bart Scott and his battle in small traffic ticket. Here it all here on Bart and Carlin.
00:00:00 – What is the Mets’ plan?
00:30:00 – Jason McCourty
00:45:00 – Can Philip Rivers actually play this weekend?
01:00:00 – Caller reactions on the Mets; Does Skubal calm Mets fans?
01:30:00 – Audio Files: Pete Thamel, Dan Orlovsky & Joe Burrow
01:45:00 – Joe Fortenbaugh’s betting advice
02:00:00 – Duel at High Noon: Mets priorities, Burrow overpay, stuffed bagels & Giants draft position
02:30:00 – Caller: Joe Burrow would win a Super Bowl as a Jet
02:45:00 – Callers: Giants should trade for Tomlin; Jets for Burrow, Chase & Watson
Weekday Lineup:
DiPietro & Rothenberg — 6a-10a
Bart & Carlin — 10a-1p
The Michael Kay Show — 1p-3p
Don, Hahn, & Rosenberg — 3p-7p
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The team did not miss the postseason, STEARNS missed the postseason.
Just his ineptitude in keeping McLean's IP in MLB under 50 in order to try to snag a tweener pick in 2027 that might help the Mets in 2032, was ridiculous. It was easily the worst single blunder by any GM or POBO in 2025, probably in this decade, and very possibly of the last 25 years. McLean had pitched like an ace all year in AAA, but Stearns refused to bring him up until AUGUST 15TH, costing the Mets at least one win and almost certainly several wins.
You can add to that all the other Stearns-perpetrated nonsense, like his pathetic 2025 Deadline (to complement his pathetic 2024 Deadline) where he radically overpaid, sending away ELEVEN prospects—more than any other team, including several top 10 Mets prospects while getting back several of the Deadline's worst performers including the very worst in Ryan Helsley that Stearns was too cheap to simply DFA before he, too, cost the Mets a postseason berth.
It's wrong to say Stearns is a small market GM. In fact Stearns is one of those pathologically frugal souls who always lives for tomorrow, scrimping and scrimping and scrimping, a slave to his pathologies, who never lives for today even when it's easy and prudent to do so.
The Mets had one of the better offenses in MLB and with RISP was 2nd in SLG, 5th in OBP, and 8th in BA vs all 30 teams. The real problem, of course, was pitching, and that Stearns couldn't come up with better pitching was entirely on him. The Mets lucked into the NL's best ERA for the first two months of the season, the Mets had McLean in AAA, and at least two starters went at the Deadline for LESS than what Stearns paid for Helsley, Soto, and Mullins.
The Mets are unlikely to succeed until Stearns is fired. It's clear that the Brewers success is due to the front office personnel promoted after Stearns left. 97 wins three years after he departed as its full time GM, for a $120m payroll vs. 83 wins for the Mets on a $340m payroll. What an embarrassment.