Billy Eppler Just Resigned As Mets GM Out Of The Goddamn Blue

God DAMN, this motherfucker don't play!

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For as long as David Stearns was linked to the Mets, which feels like it was no less than 100 years, we heard that him and Billy Eppler were BFFs and Eppler would no doubt be set with a job high on the Mets org chart once Stearns took over. 

Now three days after Stearns was officially announced as the Mets President of Baseball Operations, Eppler is gone and Eppler Mode is officially DISENGAGED.

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At this time last year, the Mets had 101 wins and were getting ready for the playoffs their first season under Billy Eppler and Buck Showalter. Now both are gone and the Mets are once again looking for a new GM and manager. 

I don't know if Eppler realized he essentially got his balls clipped with the Mets when his buddy got hired or Stearns realized he had a better option than Eppler out there that he is interested in. But I will blindly believe in everything Stearns does because he has a track record of success and I don't have a choice anyway. 

All I know is that this better not impact the Mets' pursuit of Yoshinobu Yamamoto since I developed a baseball crush on him once the Mets saeson was cuncelled and everyone said Eppler was the key to recruiting Japanese players after he got Shohei Ohtani to sign with the bum ass Angels. 

As for his time as Mets GM, Eppler had some misses, most notably last year's trade deadline and investing in older pitchers that could break down this season, which they did and was responsible for this most unsatisfying Mets season I can remember (which is saying something). But he also had some hits that carried last year's 101 win team to the best regular season I have ever watched in my life as a Mets fan and the farm system he essentially bought with Steve Cohen's money this trade deadline using the pieces he acquired over the offseason.

Regardless of who is hired next, I hope this is the last blog I have to write about a Mets GM or manager moving on for a while because stability is the key to any good franchise no matter what sport they play. Brandon Nimmo has been on the Mets since 2016 yet somehow will be on his SIXTH manager and general manager in the last seven years. That is fucking preposterous.

P.S. Can we agree as a society to stop using the word "resigned". I knew the minute I saw that tweet what it meant, but it is way too close to the word re-signed and some Mets fans are going to think Eppler just re-upped with the club for more years.