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First, it was Jimmy Kimmel. Now it’s the New York Mets broadcasters, Gary Cohen and Todd Zeile who fans, well some fans, are targeting. And why? Because it was revealed that Chicago Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw left the team and missed a game because he thought it more important to attend the “memorial service” for Charlie Kirk.
Gary Cohen said, “I don’t want to talk about the politics of it, but the thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency. Really strikes me as weird.”
Todd Zeile followed it up with, “It’s unusual, I think it’s unprecedented at least from my experience as a player, and I think it made it a little more unusual that it was not revealed until after it came to issue because he was thought to be in the dugout and maybe available, and was not, and that’s how it was revealed.”
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
