The Mets Police

Yesterday before the Derby, the Mets – the actual Mets – tweeted a video of Pete saying whatever he said and ending with his immature vulgar version of LGM.  So it brings me great joy, tremendous joy, to see Pete lose the Home Run Derby.

What’s extra funny to me is that anyone who watches baseball knows all you have to do to get this guy out is pitch him low and away….and that’s what the BP Pitcher did!  Here come the excuses…

the BP pitcher really didn’t give Alonso a chance, struggling with his control to the point that he was throwing as many pitches on the outside corner as he put in the slugger’s sweet spot on the inner half of the plate.

Anyway, I see an increasing number of fans observing that Pete isn’t that good at baseball day to day even though if you hit 5 home runs in 6 days every few weeks you wind up with some nice HR and RBI columns.  What you don’t wind up with is a World Series trophy.

I’ve been doing this for quite some time now (since 2008) and it’s been a long time since the Mets didn’t send a press release about the Draft Picks.

I believe there to be two mailing lists – the one that the Corporate Guys manage – that goes to people like Gary Cohen and newspapers.  Then there’s “List B” which includes the bloggers and gets used when The Suit can’t be bothered, but someone in marketing wants us to push 20 tickets for $20 specials when the Mets are out of it…I will be getting PLENTY of press releases in the second half.

Anyway, I couldn’t care less about the draft, but it is interesting that the Mets didn’t send anything.

Anyway, MLB.com says the Mets took a SS which makes sense since their best prospect is a SS who is being blocked buy a guy who hates the customers….great pick Mets!

In (Colin) Houck, a highly regarded shortstop from Parkview High School in Lilburn, Ga., the Mets selected a two-sport star athlete whom MLB Pipeline rated 12th overall in the 2023 Draft class. (Via MLB.com)

Anyway, there’s the news and if the Mets can’t be bothered to cut and paste into an email, I can’t be bothered to be excited about it.

Tonight, Pete Alonso gets to do the one thing he’s good at.

Kodai Senga gets it..

“If I could choose, I would choose not to face him, but I know the fans in Japan would love it. I know the fans here would love it, too. Whatever happens, if he gets a hit off of me or I get him out, I just want to enjoy the moment.”

Hopefully the NL Manager gets it too…as this would be good for baseball.

Senga is replacing The Big Zero Marcus Stroman on the All-Star team, which is also a good thing for the universe.

That also means that the Mets are led my Max Scherzer, a defending Cy Young and an All-Star and yet are a million or so games out.  I guess Pete hitting 5 home run in 6 days once a month doesn’t really matter.   Trade Pete.  Do it…while we still have time.

Hey this is kinda cool. If they could make it low crown and reasonably priced I’d consider it. However $48 for a cap keeps the wallet closed. No side patch!!

Pretty Snazzy. You still can’t even see the netting.