It's all Scott Boras's fault.

Lupica is just mad that Jeter got the scoop:

"Matt Harvey went running to Derek Jeter’s Players Tribune — occasionally a safe house for athletes in trouble — on Sunday to try to end a controversy that his agent created. Harvey said things in a short essay that he should have said when he faced the media on Saturday in Miami. The fact that it took him a day longer than it should have to wake up isn’t anybody’s fault but his own."

You wish Matt Harvey was blaming the media. It would make you feel important.

I challenge anyone to read Harvey's rather terse post and find any suggestion of blaming anyone.

Lupica is so used to this pretend dance between the media and the players, that he just writes the script out of habit.


"Matt Harvey, who likes the bright light that comes with being a celebrity in New York, needs to realize once and for all that with a talent like his and a stage like this come responsibility. At least in the Players Tribune he sounded like the grownup he ought to be at his age, and after everything that has happened to him so far in his career."

Mike Lupica says adults should stop acting childish.


"Once and for all: The media didn’t start this, the Mets didn’t, neither did any angry Mets fan.

Boras did."

Start what?

You (and many others) over-reacted because Harvey gave vague answers at an impromptu "press conference" where he didn't live up to a stupid and childish media-created cartoon character.


It demonstrates journalistic bravery to go after Scott Boras, by the way.

Nice column. It didn't explain who, what, where, when, why, or how. Lupica is just a guy who's angry that Harvey and Jeter won't return his calls.