Gio: Mets in 2024 are eerily similar to Joe Schoen, Brian Daboll's first season with Giants
Gio broke down a "revelation" he had while watching the Mets destroy the Yankees again on Wednesday night, and while the vibes are high in Queens right now, Gio's epiphany doesn't bode well for the immediate future.
The revelation: the 2024 Mets have an awful lot of similarities to the New York Giants in their first season under Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen, which brought about surprising success that ultimately set back a necessary rebuild.
"The situation they are in right now is because they had unexpected success, and it hurt the team in the future of what they're trying to do," Gio said of those Giants, who took a major step back the following season and now face low expectations in 2024. "Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen came in, it was their first year, Daniel Jones had a guillotine hanging over his head, he played well…Brian Daboll is Coach of the Year, everything is amazing, and Daniel Jones gets $40 million, and the team has sucked ever since, because they needed to rebuild, and now they're rebuilding while paying a guy who shouldn't be getting paid $40 million."
For Gio, a lot of those narratives sound like what is going on in Queens right now.
"First year of Carlos Mendoza, David Stearns first year," Gio said. "There's a star you have to make a decision on in Pete Alonso. These guys were brought in to rebuild this team, to tear it down and build it back up, and what do you have now? You have them playing better than you expected.
"Are we watching a repeat of what happened with the Giants, where unexpected success delays the rebuild to the point where it ends up hurting the organization going forward? Is that what we're witnessing?"
