Well, it doesn't change a very good baby, that's what all my friends have said.

But it's not my place to make us stand.

Oh, see, my hands are tied, baby.

And I hope that you're understand.

Good morning and welcome to episode 532 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the baseballreference.com play index.

I am Ben Lindberg, Grantland.com joined as always by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus.

And today we have a guest, and I've been wanting to talk about the Mets for a while.

I know it's the middle of pen and erase season, and the Mets are not really relevant in that respect,

but they have some interesting things going on.

And as it happens, we've scheduled this interview yesterday, and since then there's been a bunch of Mets news.

I got my finger on the pulse, the irregular week pulse of the New York Mets.

So today we bring in news days, Mets Beat Writer, Mark Karrig, one of our favorite beat writers to tell us about the Mets. Hey Mark.

Hey, how you doing? Just keeping an eye on the pulse here.

For the paddles.

Yeah, right. So we'll start with the news that broke earlier this afternoon, and this is actually your off day that you are interrupting to talk to us.

So you've not been reporting this story, but you can fill us in a little bit.

There has been a lawsuit that has been filed by the team's former executive vice president for marketing and ticket sales against Jeff Wilhelm and the Mets.

So can you tell us a little bit about this?

Yeah, essentially in federal court, there's a lawsuit filed by Lee Castro, who was basically the headhunt show for tickets and marketing alleging that Jeff Wilhelm humiliated her for having a baby out of wedlock and ultimately discriminated against her because it led to her dismissal.

Then she fired a few weeks ago. She alleges in the suit that very shortly after she had an attorney contact the team about filing or having a discrimination issue.

She was fired very shortly after that.

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