Mets Police Morning Laziness: trade JDG and a long Fast 8 tirade

There has been a lot of back and forth on Twitter about the idea of trading JDG while he looks like one the game’s elite pitchers (and before he gets hurt).  I see some of #MetsTwitter is coming around, but a lot of people think this is nuts.

I mean imagine if you had held on to Noah instead of trading him when he was throwing 100.  Or if the Mets hadn’t traded Matt Harvey and his 3 Cy Youngs for Mookie Betts?  Imagine how much better the Mets would be had we just kept our young pitching.

Trade high young millennials.

Before we get to the Slackish Reaction I better get some Mets stuff in….

The newspaper says Colon was sad because no Mets called him.

Citi Field was ranked #19 on this list which is…..too high!

You will be SO SAFE at Citi Field tonight with this new netting.

 

SLACKISH REACTION: I enjoyed the off-night by watching Fate of the Furious.  We gotta talk about this film.  SPOILERS.

Before we begin, nobody loves Fast more than I do.  And I’m not one of these guys that jumped in at Fast 5….I always loved them back to the beginning.

This movie is terrible.

It was OK in the theaters but at home…wow.   The acting is wooden at all making The Rock look like Tom Hanks and Kurt Russell like Laurence Olivier (look him up millennials).

The only good scene is Cuba, and that has Dom driving a car that’s on fire backward.   By the end when we have some street racers taking on “separatists” and a nuclear submarine (this Ludcaris fellow seems pretty smart, maybe he should apply himself and get a real job instead of whatever he does between Dom gigs.)

Dom was a guy cooking burgers and stealing DVD players.  Now he is a James Bond level master of planning.  He knows where every camera in New York City is, and has an elaborate plan involving a previously dicky Cuban street racer, and his enemy from the last film being key cogs.

And this version of New York that Dom drives around – never mind the Zombie Cars (there are apparently a lot of you driving cars with Auto Drive, I need to upgrade my ride) – in Dom’s New York you can get your car up to….oh I will even call it 30 MPH….and go more than a block before hitting a wall of traffic.  I know Dom has a good car and is great at weaving around cabs, but where are these even half-way empty streets that he’s cruising around?   I could argue it is 4:55am (because it is daylight) on some Sunday when the solstice is on a Sunday – but that doesn’t account for all the pedestrians in suits.

Anyway, upon rewatch, nothing works.  It’s just a combination of Scenes – including my favorite “don’t worry about why, we’re just suddenly in Berlin on a mission of some sorts, do the details even matter?” scene.

So the official Fast Rankings are…

  1. Fast
  2. Fast 5
  3. Fast 6
  4. Fast 7
  5. Fast 4
  6. Fast 2
  7. Fast 8
  8. Tokyo Drift

Much like the Mets, Fast needs to start over.  Keep some core players (Dom, The Rock, Ludacris) and cut the rest.  We don’t need a second hacker, even if she is easy on the eyes.  Yes I dropped Letty.  I might even be willing to drop The Rock, but that’s stupid from a box office standpoint.

What the franchise needs is Creed and The Furious.  Dom has gone back to basics, is cooking burgers, and then something something has to mentor a younger street racer for reasons…and we actually have street racing in SoCal.  Enough with the Bond movies.

Anyway back to the Mets.