SLACKISH REACTION: The Mets accidentally scheduled a Saturday Afternoon Game!! Weird. I have soccer and won’t be able to see it, maybe they should play at 7pm on Saturday LOL.
I slept in enough that I can even share the lineup!
Brandon Nimmo – LF
Pete Alonso – 1B
Robinson Canó – 2B
J.D. Davis – 3B
Wilson Ramos – C
Michael Conforto – RF
Amed Rosario – SS
Keon Broxton – CF
Steven Matz – LHP
VIDEO GAMES: MLB The Show 19 is really really really good. I played FIVE hours last night. While I did do my usual Create A Player (Road To The Show) mode and got drafted by THE METS (wooo!!!, I got suckered into the Diamond Dynasty (that’s Ultimate Team for FIFA fans) mode and the challenges as I tried to get players like Keith Hernandez.
Among the reasons the game is great is that it made baseball fun and fast. I realized that if MLB could somehow have a 6 second pitch clock the game would be more watchable. Seriously, maybe the solution is just keeping a bucketload of balls near the mound and if a batted ball hits the bucket its a do-over.
You can make games three innings – which seems nutty, but when you’re just grinding trying to get a Keith card believe me you don’t want to play nine innings.
I found myself doing a challenge where I was TOM SEAVER playing at Shea, backed by the 2019 Mets. Now that’s FUN.
Great job on this game, and whoever made it should be commissioner of baseball.
The only negative is that you have to constantly stare at t-shirt people. They are in the game’s opening, they are in the backdrop of Citi Field. Too much. T-Shirt enthusiasts will love it.
NOT LINKING: Some more Ron Darling stuff and the usual AAIMBR crap articles. I gotta go do a log run and hit soccer. RRQBT.
