NY Mets broadcaster’s hilarious Jorge Polanco line perfectly pokes fun at the wreckage

Howie Rose is calling it quits after this season. What a time to walk away from the New York Mets. He might want to run because in the next two months, the spin will have to be about the future looking bright.

While partly true, there’s a mess to clean up in the major leagues. One of the dirtiest is the one created by Jorge Polanco. Now batting .131 on the year, he stepped up to the plate on Sunday against the Miami Marlins hitting slightly better but also not free of insult.

Never, change Howie. Telling it like it is and with humor, Rose isn’t shying away from the disastrous conclusion the Mets are headed toward. The best part of it is how in text you imagine exactly how it sounded.

Howie Rose is reminding Mets fans to laugh instead of cry

Life is unfair and anyone who grew up watching Malcolm in the Middle knows it. Rose is going out on the lowest of lows for the Mets. The team hasn’t been at .500 since early April. Their last truly meaningful game included the possibility of snow in the forecast.

Rose isn’t the only one expressing his displeasure. Bob Ojeda, during the reunion of the 1986 Mets, didn’t shy away from throwing verbal darts at David Stearns. Public enemy number one at Citi Field, there is no longer the scapegoating of Carlos Mendoza to point at.

What is it about Stearns that makes everyone so mad anyway? It’s an aura problem. He has never declared himself the smartest man in the room. The smug smile, sure, can leave a lasting impression of “nana nana boo boo, you can’t fire me.”

Rose didn’t take aim at Stearns with this funny comment. But it’s also hard to separate Polanco from the Stearns ideology. Those who were told he wasn’t actually replacing Pete Alonso, but instead was meant to replicate Brandon Nimmo, have won their argument. Hitting below the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway after an 0 for 3 performance, no player on this year’s roster epitomizes the mistakes of the offseason more. That includes Freddy Peralta who is already getting fitted for a Tampa Bay Rays jersey.

It was always a no-win situation for Polanco. He was never going to replicate Alonso. Asking him to do Nimmo things was even a stretch. An odd fit from the moment we heard the Mets had signed him, the only positive is it has given us all a break from saying the same ugly opinions about Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Luis Robert Jr., and maybe a few others.

Now 4 for 51, Polanco is going through whatever is worse than slumping. It’s getting to the point where we have to wonder if he’s actually hurt and trying to fix his season.

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