NY Mets broadcast cut through up-and-down season with Carlos Mendoza indictment

Though the New York Mets bounced back on Wednesday with a win, Tuesday's loss to the Cincinnati Reds featured a play that summed up the Mets' 2026 season so far. In the top of the sixth inning, with the Mets trailing 5-0, Mets left-fielder MJ Melendez fielded a double smacked by Reds' Tyler Stephenson that zipped down the line and ricocheted off the left field wall. Mets infielder Bo Bichette received the relay throw from Melendez and gunned the ball home, hoping to throw out JJ Bleday. But Bichette's throw was an errant one, and the worst part of the entire sequence was that Mets starting pitcher David Peterson wasn't backing up Luis Torrens at home plate. The lazy and inexcusable gaffe from Peterson resulted in Stephenson advancing to third base following his RBI double. Boos at Citi Field followed, and for good reason.

Peterson was removed from the game following the sequence, and as the SNY broadcast zoomed in on his perturbed (though sort of lifeless) face in the dugout, the broadcast team ripped into Carlos Mendoza and the Mets' coaching staff for not holding players like Peterson accountable for such careless and indefensible mistakes like neglecting to back up bases.

Mets broadcast team just said what we're all thinking about Carlos Mendoza

Though the booth didn't mention Mendoza by name during the biting criticism, there was no need. Everyone listening in knew who was being blasted. After all, who else but Mendoza should be the guy ripping his players for not backing up bases? Who else but Mendoza could the booth have been referring to when it insinuated that the Mets' staff is too afraid to upset the players and thus won't hold them accountable?

Mets fans are tired of Carlos Mendoza and want him fired

At this point, Mendoza has overstayed his welcome in the minds of many a Met fan. The effort from Peterson described above also symbolized the notion -- reiterated by the SNY booth -- that plenty of Mets players are sick of Mendoza, as well.

Although Mendoza has been publicly endorsed by the Mets' front office within the last month, such an endorsement is nothing more than political jargon. The worst-kept secret among all Mets observers is that Mendoza is a sitting duck manager who will be promptly moved on from following the season (and the expiration of his contract).

Even so, it's tough to see the Mets seemingly waste another season under Mendoza. As Mendoza himself has admitted, the Mets haven't gone out there and performed this season in the way that reflects their talent on paper. Injuries aren't an excuse, either, when you have one of the worst records in baseball. There's something else broken culturally, and Mendoza is at the center of it. Whether it's his fault or, more so, the fault of his players who have given up on him is a matter of interpretation.

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