It's trade deadline season and we're probably selling. It's a tough pill to swallow, and I've heard people call for re-signing Peralta, Holmes, and Raley, because apparently we need them for next year. Is it worth retaining them, and what's the real cost of keeping these players? Peralta's agent has made it clear that he expects a 7-8 year contract in free agency. Is it wise to saddle this team to that kind of commitment for an average, mid-rotation pitcher in the midst of his worst season? No. It isn't. He's definitely worth trading. Holmes is still under contract for $12 million next year, and they are going to need him--desperately. Would he sign an extension at this point? I doubt it. It's his last chance to make real money in his career after spending a decade as a releiver. It's tough call on the trade, you'd need to get quality pitching in return. I'd probably bite the bullet and trade him, but doing so will make next year very tough. Raley is a week away from being 38, and he's missed several seasons with injuries, the most recent being 2024. He has no future with this team or really any team beyond the next 12-18 months. Trade him. These players are not the answer for the Mets. The team is so screwed up, and has so many holes and hideous contracts that it's going to take many years to dig out of this predicament. What predicament? I'm glad you asked... @StevenACohen2 is hated by the other owners, and the knives are out for him in the CBA negotiations. The owners are going to make these high value contracts very painful for the organization. You won't have the ability to carry many of them, and the Mets are probably maxed out. We're already getting VERY heavily penalized by the Luxury Tax. It gets worse. Virtually ALL of our minor league prospects are underperforming (some very badly), and after graduating and trading the top of the system, it will now be in the bottom half of the league again. The farm system needs some major help. That's why painful trades may be necessary. It gets even worse still. Because the team has blown past the Luxury Tax threshold for the past several years, their International Bonus Pool has been restricted. The result: far fewer latin signings, because they concentrate the limited pool money on signing high-end prospects. It's a risky strategy, because if one of those guys fails to pan out, you've sacrificed a lot of organizational depth for nothing. Can you handle some more? Also due to the Luxury Tax, our draft position is penalized by ten slots each year that we are over the threshold, and we are not one of the bottom six teams in MLB. Where are we in the current standings? SEVENTH from the bottom! So our draft position is currently 27th. Per MLB. com: "The Mets received a 10-pick penalty on their first pick (No. 17) for exceeding the second surcharge threshold of the Competitive Balance Tax." There's no reason to expect that we won't be in the same position in future years. Especially if we make dumb decisions like resigning Peralta, Homes, and Raley. It's a VERY grim picture. The Mets are in the most precarious position in baseball, and if it isn't handled skillfully, we are looking a a lost decade. Not simply a lost season. Oh yeah, and David Stearns is an idiot, so I believe that the worst case scenario is likely.

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for." Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it." I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy. The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us. Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat. Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces. Where does it come from? Four layers. First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country. Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else. Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do. Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night. The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct. Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say. On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength. But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration. This is where men have a responsibility. Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves. Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends. That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women. Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street. A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left. Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough. Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

The pass rush needs to be better, we cannot just rely on blitzes. Luckily we have a good answer if we change a few things. youtu.be/WQ93NIcmiQQ

This billboard wasn’t allowed in public incase it offended anyone so please do not repost it. Thanks.

@nyjets fans, want a FAIR & OBJECTIVE preview of this weeks game? Tired of the gloom and doom "If we lose this week the season's over" bullshit. NP I got you, join me at 8pm est. Bear Essentials For Winning In Chicago youtube.com/live/bSqZqQ0iRis… via @YouTube

The Jets can run on the bears if they make a few simple adjustments to their scheme. Because right now the blocking and the scheme are both terrible. youtu.be/27N1OObjALM

Week 3. SOOO CLOSE! youtube.com/shorts/PHcr9yOi9… via @YouTube

If the Jets are going to have a chance today they have to capitalize on this… youtu.be/bOsj4whNLjo?is=ngvv… via @YouTube

The Lions have a huge problem in their secondary, but how can the Jets capitalize? #jetup youtu.be/bOsj4whNLjo

The Lions offense is good, but it isn't perfect.

The Jets defense has been excellent through two weeks, and it looks like that isn’t a fluke! #jetup youtu.be/TToY3T4bnos

Tonight at 8pm est, let's get fired up! #Jets Look Ahead To Week 3 youtube.com/live/pAqzcbkkiGQ… via @YouTube

We need to talk about the Jets offense. It wasn’t all bad, but they did get predictable. #jetup youtu.be/ce9kTu75gkk

Some?

Some Jets content creators thrive off of anger and frustration, it’s all they know and it gets old quick.

There have been questions around f this coaching staff… but Frank Reich just provided a HUGE answer! #jetup youtu.be/7MWIFeBQ84k

Frank Reich Just UNLOCKED the Jets Offense youtu.be/7MWIFeBQ84k

This was exactly my point before the game, if the Jets could get pressure it was OVER. I just didn’t realize how dominant our d-line would be.

Like and Re-Post if you miss the 80s as much as I do.....

We are only 14 Subscribers away from 500 by Week 1. ALL 14 will be entered to win your choice of a Garrett Wilson or David Bailey jersey. Make sure to subscribe to our Youtube channel now for your chance to win! #RickieNewYorkLive

@nyjets fans - SUBSCRIBE NOW to our Youtube channel. We are only 15 more away from 500 subscribers and ALL 15 will be entered to win your choice of a David Bailey or Garrett Wilson jersey. Sub now for a shot to win! LFG #Jets youtube.com/live/tkT1Lx7Af0A… via @YouTube