The Mets Police

For those of you who are new, Trackwalling is when a play by play announcer gets lazy and mentions the track and/or wall because that’s what he does when he’s having a bad season calling home runs and just needs to get his catch phrase in. There is NO reason to mention the wall here.  Zero.

Conforto CRUSHES a HOME RUN off of Lester!

Stream Live: https://t.co/fzMsDxvkr8 pic.twitter.com/qfis6UQgpu

— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) August 28, 2018

Verdict: Absolute Sterling

This is super snazzy….almost get on a plane snazzy.

Sure to be a popular get, the @LasVegas51s will give away @GoldenKnights branded jerseys to the first 2,500 fans at Saturday’s game vs. the @RiverCats. Part of team’s final home stand at Casman Field. The 36th and final season at Cashman ends Monday. #vegasborn #LV51s #vegas pic.twitter.com/gC3cNjFygy

— Mick Akers (@mickakers) August 27, 2018

Now that Players Weekend is over I have noticed that nobody cares.

I think the uniforms are fun.  I also think nobody cares.

The Williamsport game is fun.  No issue.  (Other than the tournament being an abomination but if you’re gonna monetize children in an unnecessary tournament you might as well have this game).

The full weekend?

It’s nice for content.  It fills some spots here.  It gives USA Today something to write about.  It lets baseball announcers talk about something new.  Nobody cares.

The Players?  Do they care?  I mean if you’re a grown man who relives your LLWS from twenty years ago you probably do, but does Matt “Harv” Harvey care?

Half of the nicknames scream I DON’T CARE but MLB has everyone do it.  OK fine.

What about kids?  I dunno, did kids tune in because someone has TODDFATHER on the back of his uniform?  I doubt it.

It is a nice visual change or pace, and it does no harm, but I don’t think anyone cares.

I don’t even think MLB sells all that much merch.  MURPH Cubs stuff was down to just L about ten minutes after he was traded.  What did they make, five of these?   You don’t see many of these out in the wild.  So I don’t even think it’s a merch grab.

I am not saying it should go, I don’t even dislike it.  I am saying Nobody Cares.

 

Take a look at the schedule and enjoy these two 8pm games. Then we have one of those insane weekday day games on Wednesday, but it’s the Cubs so I will allow it, and then a West Coast trip like the West Coast trips of my youth where it would be the end of August and the Mets would head off to SD-LA-SF and I would totally lose touch with them because all we had was “Mets at San Francisco, night” in the papers.

The weekend has two 4pm eastern games, but it is Labor Day weekend and beach time grows short (no soccer tournament for Dad for once woooooo!) and the last Dodger game is 7:35pm ET but we’ll be back to school by then.

Then Friday 9/7 the Mets finally return home, hopefully with David Wright at 3B.

Bye bye Mets, see you in two weeks.

SLACKISH REACTION:  I wasn’t in the mood for a Mets game so I sat on my deck and listened to some video games podcasts and enjoyed the pool.   I’m kind of not in the mood for a game tonight either, but at least Murph vs. Gare should make it interesting.

David Wright did not play Sunday.

As usual, things are pretty quiet coming off a Sunday.

The AAIMBR went with a Rubin Ripoff focused on today’s SP again.  As if anyone surfing the internet is like “Oh, todays SP let me click on this.”  On the other hand, there’s nothing to write about today and all I did was focus on the opposing 2B – but I bet if I had 52 more writers we could have come up with something if we tried.

 

Hello….David Wright updates are surprisingly hard to come by, as even the official St. Lucie twitter account barely mentions the guy (seriously).

I had read late last week that DW had hoped to play in all three games this weekend, but he did not play on Sunday.

I know this isn’t much of an  update by I am a guy sitting on a deck by a pool, so by those standards not so bad.