Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Melanie Newman, Chris Young, Hannah Keyser and Brooke Fletcher  will be your Apple TV booth and Gelbs-type.

Apple is really trying to see if people can hate them on social media.  I am unfamiliar with Melanie Newman’s work, I am sure she’s fantastic – but I imagine the combination of people feeling like they went out of their way to watch the game, then not hearing someone in the same vocal register they are used to…I can see people being unhappy.

(Although here’s a clip and maybe she isn’t good at PBP at all.)

Should be a fun night on social media!!

 

My friends the Mets would like you to know their Opening Day Roster!

METS ANNOUNCE OPENING DAY ROSTER

 

FLUSHING, N.Y., April 7, 2022 – The New York Mets announced the following roster moves today:

 

• RHP Jacob deGrom has been placed on the 10-Day IL with a stress reaction on his right scapula.
• LHP Joey Lucchesi has been placed on the 60-Day IL recovering from “Tommy John” surgery.
• RHP Jake Reed has been placed on the 10-Day IL with a left oblique strain.
• LHP David Peterson has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse.

 

Below is the Mets’ 28-man roster.

 

Pitchers (14): RHP Chris Bassitt, RHP Carlos Carrasco, RHP Edwin Díaz, RHP Seth Lugo, RHP Trevor May, RHP Tylor Megill, RHP Adam Ottavino, RHP Sean Reid-Foley, LHP Joely Rodríguez, RHP Max Scherzer, LHP Chasen Shreve, RHP Drew Smith, RHP Taijuan Walker, RHP Trevor Williams

 

Catchers (2): James McCann, Tomás Nido

 

Infielders (7): Pete Alonso, Robinson Canó, J.D. Davis, Eduardo Escobar, Luis Guillorme, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil

 

Outfielders (5): Mark Canha, Travis Jankowski, Starling Marte, Brandon Nimmo, Dominic Smith

Well, I find myself in a weird place this morning.

I have family plans this evening, and with the game now pushed back three hours I won’t be able to watch the Mets game.

The interesting part is – I don’t care.

In past seasons this would have driven me nuts.  Today, I am like – whatever.

I think about these 2022 Mets.  You have this guy at SS….

 

…and now I am never letting it go, so don’t ask.

You have Vulgar Pete and his dopey fans that spell LGM with 4 letters and think that’s cool.

The benevolent billionaire who struts on twitter when things are good and hides out the rest of the time.

7 teams in the playoffs.  The Universal DH.  Black uniforms are back.

A Mets social media account that seemingly only promotes Lindor, and didn’t once acknowledge all spring that the Mets had lost a game like some sort of Baseball Pravda.

4 hour games. Openers.  Strikeouts and home runs and little else.

I’m sure there’s a little other things, but that’s what this is – death by 1000 pinpricks, and I think Baez and Lindor really were pricks 999 and 1000.

So I won’t watch Opening Day.  Or maybe I will see the end.  Point is, I’m not even bothered by it.  I can watch tomorrow (and will have fun mocking the people who think the Apple thing is a big deal, and that’s you Chris Russo.)

The Mets have a Saturday night game which normally I’d blow off and play video games but OK, that might work for me.  Sunday day game – life is too short to sit inside watching baseball and I probably have kids soccer or something anyway.

So it’s Opening Day.  In past years I’d write some flowing piece that starts with “Friends…” and/or be excited about the season.  This year, I don’t care.  It’s just a TV show.

 

It seems baseball has developed some sort of Weather Predicting Technology (WPT).

Using WPT the Nationals, and hear me out here – a day in advance moved the game back three hours so that fans don’t have to sit there getting wet for no reason as there is rain in the forecast!

The Mets Police Weather Center shows the rain ending during the 6pm hour.  Hopefully the game starts at the new on-time, or not too long after.

This is an amazing breakthrough in tech, and hopefully will make its way to Queens.

Anyway, the game is at 7 now.