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Joe Girardi will manage his first game with the Philadelphia Phillies on March 26 in Miami. A day later, Zack Wheeler is likely to take the mound for the first time as a Phillie. There are contingents of the New York Mets fanbase that wish both were getting ready to work in Queens this season instead.
In fact, some fans were so hell-bent on the two being employed by the Mets that they reached into their own pockets.
James Wagner of The New York Times published a piece Thursday examining how some fans of the Mets found general manager Brodie Van Wagenen on the payment app Venmo and sent him money hoping that he would put that towards their desired outcomes.