Mets nearly hooked up with cougar dating service to help David Wright garner All-Star votes

Last month, CougarLife.com's blog revealed that David Wright was voted the most desired baseball player by "more than 11,000 respondents" from older woman/younger man dating  site.  He finished ahead of names like Phillies' pitcher Cole Hamels, Nationals' outfielder Bryce Harper and Yankees' second baseman Robinson Cano.

Now we find out the New York Mets almost worked with the site to help get Wright to start the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field.

According to emails obtained by Deadspin, the Mets nearly partnered with CougarLife.com to get Wright votes that would push him into the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field.

The site would have reached "over 40,000 females in the New York metro area" according to one email and the site would have pushed for Wright with posts all over social media along with a press release.

But a few days ago, the unnamed Mets marketing manager retracted his message: "We received some pushback as we don’t feel a partnership working together would be the image that our team and David- especially since he recently got engaged- would like to portray."

Wright got engaged to model Molly Beers "over the holidays" last year.

The Mets responded to the story with a statement, via The New York Post's Mike Puma: "Last year there was a big swing of votes at the end that cost David the starting job. We decided to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen again this year. We ultimately elected to pass. We thank whoever leaked this to Deadspin for increasing awareness of #VOTEWRIGHTNOW AT METS.COM."