The Mets Police

Let’s take a look at Monday night’s ratings. You will notice there have NOT been articles or press releases about how many people are watching, so I will do the work/

The Team USA game, which started at 10pm as Baseball continues to grow the game – drew 762,000 people.  Wrestling’s 10pm hour drew a million five.  The 10pm NBA game drew 1.8M.  GUTFELD at 11pm drew 1.7M

The 7pm game, the kind of game you might lose a closer in (but not THAT game, I am talking Monday here), drew….wait for it….394,000

Well, let’s take a look at Tuesday – Team USA had the day off, but there was a game on at 10pm which drew, wait for it, 395,000 people.  The 7pm game drew 377,000 people.  The NIT game at 7pm drew 569,000.  Fixer to Fabulous at 9pm drew 1.1 million.  Maybe MLB should just have players fix up homes?

Nobody hates the World Baseball Classic more than I do.

You see, my mission is to encourage the Mets to win the World Series while nicely dressed.  That is all I want, and then I will end the blog.

Sending players off to play in some made-up tournament that NOBODY IS WATCHING does not help.  Anyway let’s get to this morning’s news…

Edwin Diaz had to be helped off the field after suffering an apparent leg injury in Puerto Rico’s celebration following their victory over the Dominican Republic. pic.twitter.com/i6g7sjRhYn

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 16, 2023

Well that’s rotten.

Look, I am not a monster, I hope the man is OK – but I am still going to rage about this.

Did anyone see this coming?  Oh wait, I did. 

The Baseball Mafia, who are people who make a living based on the success of baseball doing well, are saying this could have happened anywhere.  Maybe, but you know who ISN’T hurt?  EVERYONE ELSE’S CLOSER.

The Baseball Mafia also is saying what a success this tournament is.  Look guys, I don’t want to hear about the ratings in Taiwan and Mike Pizza’s Insurrection Espresso Machine.  Show me the domestic ratings.  You don’t have a story because if you had one, the FOX Sports PR would have issued a release.  There has been silence.  Nobody is watching this.  Why are we even doing it?

Be angry!!!!!

Also, I want to remind y’all – you didn’t like Diaz. You liked Kelenic.  Until Diaz was good then you loved the guy.

I’ll leave you with this image of Diaz pitching in 2023. It may be the last one you get.

Puerto Rico beats the Dominican Republic to advance to the quarterfinals. But Edwin Diaz was hurt in the celebration. pic.twitter.com/fTDeoBqIsV

— The Comeback (@thecomeback) March 16, 2023

The nice folks over at TheMediaGoon.com report that Citi Field parking is now $40!

I have some questions.

1.  Why?
2. Why are you going to a baseball game anyway? Baseball is boring and the SS openly hates Mets fans.

When the Mets make the playoffs (everyone makes the playoffs now) parking goes up to $60 because obviously the cost of operations jumps 50% after September 30th.

On the other hand, you should be thankful there even IS a parking lot – imagine if someone had turned the parkland into a casino.

Dear Steve,

You have the Polar Bear.  You have the defending batting champ. You have two stud pitchers. You have a guy with a ghost pitch.  Why do you market the guy that did THIS to your paying customers?

You have enough money that you should have assigned this guy to AA Siberia.  I understand why you didn’t, but I don’t understand why you market him when you have so many choices.

Pick someone else.

.@Lindor12BC and @SugarDiaz39 showing out on the world stage. 🇵🇷#WorldBaseballClassic | #LGM pic.twitter.com/7xxnJ3JBSS

— New York Mets (@Mets) March 14, 2023

Captain @Lindor12BC clears the bases! 🇵🇷 #WorldBaseballClassic pic.twitter.com/heGKB1EYE4

— New York Mets (@Mets) March 14, 2023

Oh the media can be so stupid.  NOBODY has watched more post-Mets Matt Harvey than I have and I am telling you he is terrible and cannot pitch out of trouble. He has clean innings and horrific innings.

But the media doesn’t pay attention so…

Matt Harvey remains one of the most intriguing World Baseball Classic stories. One run in four innings today for Italy against the Netherlands.

Harvey owns a 1.29 ERA in two WBC starts, despite sitting 89 mph with his fastball and topping out at 91. pic.twitter.com/KRzhIs9vtz

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 12, 2023

And I think most of us have come to agree that SNY’s web-itotial team is as bad at writing as Matt is at pitching. They described this as GREAT.

Matt Harvey had yet another great outing for Team Italy in his WBC start today:

4 IP
2 H
1 ER
0 BB
3 K

Team Italy is headed to the next round in Japan. https://t.co/FoFMR2IQbs

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) March 12, 2023

GREAT? 1 run in 4 innings is GREAT now?  And are we going to ignore the loss in speed?  (Velocity measures speed AND direction, but baseball media types like to use the word incorrectly.)

Matt threw 60 pitches, 38 for strikes.  Against Didder and Tromp.

Against legendary Dutch baseball players like these guys…

Can we tap the brakes a little??

Let’s see how Matt does next time against real competition.

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While we are discussing the World Baseball Classic, the international tournament of teams that don’t get to be the World Champions of Baseball for some reason…..

…if the goal is to grow the sport – why is England playing at 2am UK Time?  Why did they schedule USA at 9pm eastern last night, and TEN PM eastern tonight and tomorrow.

This is a big joke…..

…and you Pete Alonso fans.  He doesn’t even start.  LOL.  When he’s not right at the start of the season remember he left camp for a few weeks to watch Paul Goldschmidt play baseball.