Rant #2,520: You Talk Too Much

Sometimes you have to have chutzpah to make a certain point and/or to get something concrete done, and I certainly understand that.
 
That is when chutzpah is a good thing.
 
But when you use chutzpah to soothe and boost your own already over-inflated ego, it is a bad thing, and very bad thing, and what’s more, it makes you into a bigger moron than you already are.
 
And yes, that is what New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio did yesterday with his idiotic in and out responses to the sale of the impending sale of the New York Mets to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen.
 
DeBlasio, who has demonstrated not only no aptitude at all for the position he has spent nearly two terms in and with an ego that inflates seemingly each and every minute of the day, chimed in yesterday on the sale of the Mets, and rather than give his full endorsement to a measure that will help improved New York City’s standing once the pandemic is over, he instead demonstrated that his ego continues to grow at an enormous rate.
 
He told reporters that he isn’t going to give a carte blanche endorsement of Cohen as the new owner until city lawyers went through every layer of documents that they could to make sure that Cohen is the real deal.
 
The mayor said he has to do this because technically, the Mets’ park, CitiField in Queens, is situated on New York City land, so in essence, the city owns the land, so it also owns the park that sits on it, so he has to go through such an ownership to keep the integrity of the deal in place as a benefit to New Yorkers.
 
Yes, I am sure his lawyers vetted the paperwork to allow protestors to destroy the city too.
 
What’s more, deBlasio’s idiotic tactics—which I don’t remember any mayor invoking during other ownership changes in sports teams, including such changes made by the Yankees, the Knicks and the Rangers, and the Nets during the past 50 or more years—appeared to be nothing more than an effort to get his name in the paper for something that he has little or nothing to do with, as he even said that the change in ownership is a formality and that he hopes it happens quickly.
 
Tell that to all the restaurant owners and owners of other establishments in the city who waited months—and some are still waiting—to open their doors to the public as he dragged his feet during the past six months.
 
But he really hit the nail on the head when he stated, “You know how I feel about billionaires,” referencing Cohen, who made his money on hedge funds,
 
Yes, and what are your feelings about millionaires who paint “murals” while the city falls to the ground?
 
DeBlasio is a real piece of work, but heck, New York City voters elected this guy not once, but twice, so I guess you pay what you get for … and he is a Red Sox fan to boot, hates the Yankees, and has little love for the team from Queens.
 
Cohen is no angel, either, and even though he was never convicted of a crime, his company was fined over $1 billion for improprieties several years ago/
 
And when I hear the tem “hedge fund,” I think of Bernie Madoff, who the Mets ownership was involved with. When Madoff fell, all the greedy investors fell with him, and the Mets fell into an abyss that they still were drowning in until Cohen supposedly came to the rescue.
 
City officials are trying to cover up the mayor’s snarky responses to the impending sale, stating that he was not acting in an official capacity when he made the remarks, and it is not New York City policy to get so involved in such deals.
 
But for the mayor of the world’s most important city to chime in on this deal like he did, completely out of the blue, really demonstrates that his ego wasn’t satiated when he had the audacity to run for president several months ago, believing that the way he ran New York City—pretty much into the ground—would be a perfect fit to lead our country.

 
While New York City voters evidently aren’t very bright, others saw through his imbecility, and he had as much chance of getting the Democratic nod as I did, and he was quickly banished back to New York City, where he subsequently let the city he is running crash and burn.

(And it is interesting to add as a sidelight that the Wilsons, the family who is seeking to sell the Mets to Cohen, was a major financial contributor to deBlasio's failed presidential run. Hmmmm ... .)
 
As a Yankees fan, I almost have to laugh at all of this nonsense, but when I see what deBlasio has already done to the city he is supposed to be leading, I really almost have to cry at his scare tactics, sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong.
 
And I have one further question for deBlasio, which I would ask him when he finally realizes that his comments about the Mets’ sale have absolutely no weight in the matter, even though it probably boosted his enormous ego.
 
And that question is this:
 
“Where and when are you going to paint the next “mural?”

I guess I have a lot of chutzpah myself ... .