Dan Graziano’s right about everything here. The spat over who will open the new football stadium is silly, but Woody Johnson is correct to be angry that Roger Goodell held a coin toss without witnesses. The point of a coin toss is that everyone involved agrees it leaves the results up to random chance, but if no one’s there to see it, how can anyone know it’s random?
I wonder if in 4,000 years, some future race will see the abandoned skyscrapers of New York as “a vigorous forest of phallic symbols.”
David Roth weighs in on the whole Jenrry Mejia thing. This is shaping up to be a pretty fascinating — if still minor — example of the divide between the team’s fanbase and braintrust, and it’s interesting that there hasn’t been much noise from the papers about how Mejia-to-the-bullpen is a bad idea.
Tedquarters 
The Mets have some bizarre obsession with relievers. If the Tigers offered them Justin Verlander, they’d probably keep Perez and Maine in the rotation and then hold a press-conference about how they’d found their new 8th-inning guy and closer of the future!
David Roth weighs in on Mejia, ends column with, “But what do I know? I’m just a gigolo. IIIIIIIIIIII AIN’T GOT NOBODYYYYYYYYYY.”
I’m not surprised there hasn’t been much noise in the papers. When is there intelligent discussion in the local tabloids about the Mets? They’re too busy talking about Reyes and HGH, Pagan’s baseball instincts and Francoeur taking the team out for pizza.
Oh but did you see how they all smiled when he took them out for pizza!?? So much chemistry!
And then backup-to-nobody Alex Cora got stuck with the bill! Haha Alex, we got you! Better hope that option vests because Frenchy is hungry!
NYC sportswriters engaging in an “intelligent discussion”? We just found ourselves a new oxymoron.