Ron Darling, whose national profile continues to rise, has agreed to a multiyear deal to remain a color analyst on SNY alongside Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez.
Cohen mentioned the new deal during Thursday’s Mets Hot Stove Show on the network.
SINCE THE DAY he was hired to run the Milwaukee Brewers at the age of 30 in 2015, David Stearns has always been young for his job. And yet he never seemed out of place as the Brewers general manager back then — or now, seven months into his tenure as the president of baseball operations of the New York Mets.
Some 8½ years after his big break, though, there are times when Stearns’ youth seems to bubble closer to the surface than it ever has before.
“I had a very good idea of what I was stepping into,” Stearns said, speaking on a sleepy March day in the dugout of the Mets’ training facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The sun was shining and guys with hoses were on the field and beyond the outfield fence swayed the tops of palm trees. The reality of the maelstrom into which Stearns had entered was still a couple of weeks away and 1,200 miles up the Atlantic coast. “It helps that I’m from New York and know this fan base. For a good part of my life, I was among this fan base.”
Stearns, now 39, somehow landed in the waking version of a boyhood dream, running the team he fawned over while growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. And he is all too aware of the storybook element of this high-profile career transition.
“Look, this is the type of thing that never happens, right?” Stearns said on a Mets podcast before the season. “Like, you don’t grow up a fan of a team and then one day get to help run that team. So, I recognize how ridiculous this whole thing is.
