Well friends, another season arrives. For Mets Police this will be the 10th season of discussing baseball with y’all, and this one looks to be a good one.
I won’t make Opening Day this year with a combination of work meeting at 11:30, having to be at another gig at 6, and my kid just not being into it. It will be the first Opener at Citi Field that I miss, and maybe the first of the 21st century. It’s been a while anyway…and my numbers will drop to something like being at all but 4 since 1982 or such. Anyway, just not feeling it, and really not feeling it for $100 in a ballpark I do not love.
As for the Mets – a good team. A team to which I am not particularly attached, nor dis-attached. I do not have a current favorite player, but hopefully some gritty unsung hero will become the guy I root for. In the meantime, I’ll root for the laundry as we all do, and hope the laundry wins a ring (while dressed properly).
There’s a million articles about the team. Yes they have In Theory Pitching and In Theory Power and despite The Narrative pretty decent depth. If you had to throw out a lineup with Montero, T.J., Conforto and some of the other non-starters it would be way better than some actual lineups being run out there as late as Day Before Cespedes.
So I won’t bore you with that, I’ll race to get to a TV by 1pm, will be sad I miss The Ceremonies (a part I like more than the game) and maybe I can make it to the 2018 Opener and see a Championship Flag go up for the first time since I was a teenager. It’s been a long long time Mets. Even the Red Sox and Cubs have won since. Let’s get this done.
