Alderson said he had been amused to see another innocuous factoid — his revelation that he would be driving to Florida for spring training — joked about, dissected and in some cases seriously analyzed by some on Twitter and on blogs as a reflection of the Mets’ finances.

So someone in his office suggested he create a Twitter account to respond, Alderson said, and he thought, “Why not?”

“We wanted to play off the absurdity of it,” Alderson said. “Everything we do is viewed through the prism of our perceived financial situation.”…

“There are always some that take life way too seriously,” Alderson said. “For those people, it might take longer for my message to get across.”

– Andrew Keh, N.Y. Times.

So… this. All of this. Click through and read the rest, in part because I feel guilty about excerpting so much.

These are tough times for Mets fans obviously, but you ever stop and consider how much worse they would be if the team had a less competent, less reasonable GM at the helm?