For all the accusations over the decades of me being “negative” – if you want to tag this one negative, go right ahead.
Yesterday around 2:45pm there were the usual cries from people who were never going to watch baseball again, and by 3:01 people were lying up to fly to Denver to watch a Mets game and get a t-shirt. All of this has happened before and will happen again.
My reaction is somewhere between “drat” and “whatever” – it is definitely not “oh goodie, baseball is back!”
As I type this, I realize that the thought of attending Opening Day never entered my mind as a temptation. Between 1980 and 2015 I think I missed two OD’s, both because I couldn’t get out of work as an adult. Then in 2016 the Mets greatly jacked the OD price because of all the True Blue 2015 Mets Fans they wanted to be friends with, so I broke the habit. I often preach to the Mets about breaking habits. The Mets don’t care. The Mets do their thing. No Opening Day for me, and I don’t care. No Opening Day for my son – and he REALLY doesn’t care – but that’s not Steve’s problem, it will be Steve’s kids’ problem.
Speaking of Steve, suddenly he was on twitter again. Nobody likes a victory lap more than Steve. Steve also likes to hide out on twitter when things aren’t good. I get it Steve, I see who you are.
The @Mets account looked like idiots – they were hyping Max Scherzer after not mentioning the guy’s name for three months. I understand why, I get it, but it makes you look like idiots.
12 teams in the playoffs now? Whatever. I used to care, whatever have 12, 14, 16. 30, whatever.
Ads on the uniforms? Hey you wanna wear a Crypto Patch go ahead. Whatever.
At least ghost runners are gone.
9 inning doubleheaders are back because I guess pitchers got stronger or Covid is over or whatever the reason was in the first place. (Now the record book is even more screwy)
Speaking of screwy record books, I imagine everyone is “wise” enough to look the other way on steroids this year. I could see a certain someone hit 80 HRs this year. You guys just act like it’s normal. Robinson Cano will homer twice in the first three games and everyone will love him again. That’s how this all goes.
I saw someone mention that in 2023 teams will play EVERY team at least once. I did some lazy math: So 15 games against AL west, 15 vs AL central and 15 vs AL west is 45 games.
That leaves 117.
Play 30 against NL West and 30 against NL Central. That leaves 57.
Play 12 (two home series, two away) against the other 4 teams in the division takes up 48 more games.
Now there are 9 games to place.
Let’s play the Yankees twice because money.
That leaves 6 mystery games. Dunno. Don’t care.
Apple TV+ deal. Whatever. Please stop whining about this. You’re gonna watch it. They could put the games on Putinvision and you will pay for it and watch it.
Bigger Bases. Whatever.
And that’s that. In the span of just 6 years the Mets and MLB have taken me from having 1 5 game plan and caring about this all day to whatever I am now.
Your sport is dying. The baseball mafia was even showing cracks this week, although they will have amnesia about that today.
Oh, and your players booed the fans. Baez is gone, but the guys who said nothing about it are still here. I don’t forget. You broke the bond with the fans and I will never forgive you.
As I told @mediagoon last night – this is all just a TV show to me now. If I feel like watching I will watch, and if I don’t, I won’t – and my life is sailing along just fine.
Baseball is back baby.
