This week Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen was caught on a live mic after he thought a team live stream had ended. In the footage, Van Wagenen mistakenly revealed MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s plan to have the Mets “protest” this week by leaving the field at 7:10 p.m. and then returning an hour later to play the game.

The Mets didn’t want to play. This was not a good idea.

In any event, Van Wagenen got caught on a hot mic talking about how bad the plan was, going as far to say that Manfred “doesn’t get it.”

Here’s where things get weird. It turns out that it was actually Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, son of owner Fred Wilpon, who had the idea to have the players walk out an hour later … not Rob Manfred. Or at least that’s what Van Wagenen and Wilpon are saying now.

It also led to the next stunning development, where both Fred Wilpon and Jeff Wilpon both separately released statements apologizing to Manfred and bashing their own GM … while both independently misspelling Van Wagenen’s first name in their statements. Both wrote Brody instead of Brodie.

Fred Wilpon and Jeff Wilpon have released separate statements about the Manfred/Van Wagenen dustup.

Both statements misspell Van Wagenen’s first name: “Brody’s misunderstanding of a private conversation was and is inexcusable.” pic.twitter.com/0C6lrqaX67

— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) August 28, 2020

The Mets never fail to deliver. I’m not even sure I understand everything that happened here, nor do I understand how this working relationship is supposed to go forward considering the GM just apologized for trashing the Commissioner’s plan by correcting that it was actually his own COO’s plan he was trashing.

This is great. This is all great.

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