The Mets Police

Scully….

Mulder! What are you doing here? I thought you’d be outside on the deck. It’s 90 degrees out, the pool is warm, you must have something major to get you to come inside and fire up the laptop.

Take a look at this Scully….

So? The Mets want us to have a Happy Labor Day. That’s nice.

Take a CLOSER look Scully….

Happy Labor Day! #LGM pic.twitter.com/Fisezd8PO1

— New York Mets (@Mets) September 3, 2018

Scully, why are the Mets using the old New York Giants NY? I think that one hasn’t been used since around 1947, and it’s definitely not a Mets NY.

Mulder, it’s a holiday. The social media intern probably wanted something old-times and grabbed the wrong clip art.

Yes, Scully, but why would that logo even be in the clip art database? There’s no reason for that to be in the folder, and there’s even less of a reason for it to be labeled Mets.

You don’t think that…

Scully, remember that hat I posted last week?

Mulder, you don’t think….

I asked Skinner about it. He barely reacted. But sometimes Skinner knows things in advance. He might not be able to say anything.

Did you press him on it Mulder?

No, but this is twice in two weeks now that this NY appeared. Why is the old style NY circulating on Mets related materials unless…..

Nike is coming.

Nike is coming.  The truth is out there Scully, and it has now leaked twice.  Now I just have to find out what’s happening.

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Much thanks to @nikometsplus for putting the son my radar.  I would have missed it while sunning myself on the deck…to which I now return.

 

How do you make a deeply complicated game – with quirky rules and idiosyncratic vocabulary, derided as boring – palatable to a new audience, at a time of increasing competition from esports and video games such as the Fortnite juggernaut? (via Chicago Tribune)

Welcome to another edition of The Commish, a series of posts in which I try to save baseball.  A while back I wrote about Super Mega Baseball and how I thought MLB could learn a lot from that game.  Last night, I plopped on the couch and watched a Netflix documentary about cricket and was blown away that….wow…maybe I actually am right!

In 2002, “Cricketing authorities were looking to boost the game’s popularity with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. It was intended to deliver fast-paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the longer versions of the game.” (via Wikipedia)

2002.  Not all that long ago

I’m no cricket expert but what I learned was that cricket was old, slow and boring – so some guys came up with T20 Cricket – you’d have to study the rules of cricket for that to make sense – the short version is they limited the number of at bats – but the end result was it got the game to be under three hours.

If you watch the doc you’ll see they also made it faster paced and brought in high production entertainment packages around the game.

One of the cool thinks that perked my interested was THE PLAYER AUCTION! Imagine seeing the Wilpons and the other owners sitting around a table bidding on FAs?  YOU WOULD WATCH THE HELL OUT OF THIS!!!

Watch 5 seconds of this video and tell me you wouldn’t stare at this…

 

The two-day mega VIVO IPL 2018 Player Auction concluded in Bengaluru with 169 players filling up the 182 available slots. Right from its inception, the league has been a destination where talent meets opportunity and it was once again evident as out of 113 Indian cricketers that were bought, 71 are uncapped, and will get a chance to unleash their potential in the upcoming edition. (via IPLT20.com)

I highly encourage you to watch the Netflix Cricket Doc. It’s like 18 minutes long. Watch it and you will see that there is a road to fixing baseball, if we are willing to take it – and it starts with making the game shorter.

SLACKISH REACTION:  Great to see my #1 follower Thor pitch like the Thor of our dreams…and in a tidy 2:23.  Baseball as it Oughtta Be, except it needs David Wright.

Speaking of stud pitchers…you know what day it is bitches?

Yeah, TDK returns yet again!  And if you think I am sitting inside on a 90 degree day to watch it you are nuts.  I will do a recap later when the sun goes in.

As it is of Labor Day, I miss the old Jerry Lewis telethons.  The telethon was kind of like the Mets of TV- a bunch of stars way past their primes, always in need of money.  See what I did there?

I see SNY is back to trying to make Gelbs look like a buffoon.  They keep giving him nonsense assignments like the history of the franchise stuff.  For most of the second half they had him doing solid player intel (which spotlighted how Keith does prep by newspaper and Francesa, sheesh).  Now they have him looking stupid again.

Also, the 6 second commercials mid-inning can GFY.

Only one of these are currently on the Mets roster, and nobody is sure why. pic.twitter.com/lmeYM1IYsB

— Mills (@MillManner) September 2, 2018

While not the worst case of Trackwalling, I wish Gare would stop doing it.  Originally I thought this ball was 20 rows deep, but I think it hit the second row and bounced.  Catch better San Franciscans.

CONFORTO HOME RUN puts the Mets up 2-0!

Stream Live: https://t.co/fzMsDxvkr8 pic.twitter.com/MF5Y5epBnm

— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) September 2, 2018

Verdict: Sterling, for excessive Trackwalling.

These apparently exist.  I guess people like this movie since they made caps for all 30 teams.  I have never seen the film.