It was one of George Young’s great lines, one of many, and oft-repeated because it was so great. This one came in Ernie Accorsi’s office one day, when Ernie was still George’s assistant. George was grumping about the state of the team’s offense in general, and about one of his coaches in particular.

“When,” George asked Ernie that day, “does the guru start guru-ing?”

When does David Stearns really do that with the Mets ?

Or ask the question another way, after a week when Pete Alonso hit a famous Mets home run and passed Darryl Strawberry to become the Mets’ all-time home run leader:

What home run has Stearns hit so far with his own players?

We know how desperate Steve Cohen was to bring Stearns here from Milwaukee , Cohen acting at the time as if he’d hired someone who’d helped

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