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Even Jessica Mendoza Couldn't Elude the Circus That is the Mets After Mike Fiers Comments

By Thomas Carannante

Jessica Mendoza is somehow doubling as one of the voices of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and serving as a member of the New York Mets front office. That's been enough to stir controversy, but her comments from Thursday are bound to cause even more backlash.

Mendoza appeared on ESPN to talk about the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, which has now involved the Mets in some capacity, considering they hired Carlos Beltran to be their manager this offseason. Beltran was a member of the Astros' 2017 World Series team that was found guilty by the MLB for their actions, and he allegedly was among the chief assistants in Alex Cora's grand plan.

Now that there's chatter about the Mets possibly parting ways with Beltran, which would effectively ruin their entire offseason, Mendoza, for some odd reason, has taken exception with former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers for alerting the MLB of Houston's wrongdoing.

So, you have a problem with a player trying to clean up the game after we saw countless smug and arrogant interviews from Astros coaches and players pretty much daring someone to out them. We saw this with manager A.J. Hinch and star third baseman Alex Bregman.

Mendoza also went as far as claiming teams didn't complain about the Astros' behavior before Fiers outed them, which is laughably false.

The New York Yankees famously complained this year about the Astros' whistling in the dugout, claiming that was an obvious indication they were stealing and relaying signs. What did the MLB report say? The Astros used whistling in the past to do the SAME THING.

Not so funny now, is it, Mr. Hinch?

All in all, Mendoza trying to throw Fiers, whose act was responsible and noble given the integrity of the game was being significantly compromised, under the bus because the organization she works for is now in hot water over their offseason hire is a sad attempt to save face. And that sounds a whole lot like the Mets we're used to.

Welcome to the circus, Jessica.