What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I find Mike Piazza’s phrasing here interesting, especially because Mike and Jeff were not teammates. Mike is using a tone of voice like he’s the Mets or he’s Mr. Met or something. I am sure I will catch grief for this post, but I am (as always) just observing what I notice.
Everyone here at the @Mets is very sad at the passing of Jeff Innis, a great competitor, more importantly a good person. Heart felt condolences to his family. God Bless.#Mets
— Mike Piazza (@mikepiazza31) January 31, 2022
I don’t get it. Why TODAY?
It’s Sho-Time.@MLBTheShow‘s coming April 5. Pre-order now ➡️ https://t.co/2e9bRAlaDW pic.twitter.com/KHeouIyB11
— MLB (@MLB) January 31, 2022
TODAY there are the NFL games to talk about. TODAY there is the Tom Brady retirement story.
Later in the week…it will be too early to obsess over the Super Bowl and there are no major sports this weekend. Does nobody at MLB have a sports calendar?
Or wait three weeks because guess what – there won’t be any actual baseball to talk about, and maybe this would give people something.
BTW – they really broke The Show in 2021. The game plays great, but I have been playing on and off since it came out and my pitcher is still stuck in the minors because of the way they tweaked the grind (TLDR is they wan’t you to play Diamond Dynasty (that’s card collecting to build All Star Teams) and I want to play Road To The Show (career mode)). You can say I suck at video games but on previous iterations I always got called up year one and then played multiple seasons. Why would you make the game NOT FUN.
One of my things about video games is I want FUN. If the difficulty is too hard, I lower it. I don’t need to prove myself to you, I just want to turn my brain off for two hours. The Show managed to make baseball NOT FUN which actually isn’t that hard now that I say it out loud.
Also, Mike Trout isn’t even the biggest star on his own team. He’s third.
Sad to hear Jeff passed away.
It was good to hear that his fundraiser worked and he did make it home. Keenan Innis had posted…
My dad has landed in Georgia!! He will then be transported to a local hospice where he will be comfortably surrounded by loved ones. We are so incredibly thankful for the support from friends, family, and fans who extended donations and kind words. Our family is overwhelmed with love and we are exceptionally happy to have him home!
Jeff passed away on Sunday, aged 59.
The T-Shirt Guy is selling these.
I was bouncing around for content this morning – and there really is NOTHING going on – the guys at the Amazing Apple Insiderized Mets Blog Report are – and I am serious here – are writing about the defensive WAR of 1969 Mets like Art Shamsky and Buddy Harrelson. I can imagine my father having zero interest in that conversation. I can imagine my son having zero interest in that conversation. I know I have zero interest in that conversation.
But, I get it AAIMBR millennials, you guys gotta fill the content holes. I do too. I just do hats, which I know are lame but I AM NOT EVEN TRYING. I feel like you guys are trying. Just throw up a cap post and be done for the day because…
NOBODY CARES ABOUT BASEBALL RIGHT NOW.
Tomorrow will be all about football, and baseball has zero buzz to lock onto because THE BILLIONAIRES LOCKED OUT THE MILLIONAIRES.
I went to Mets.com – they have nothing. Then I bounced over to the T Shirt Guy’s Place and oh yeah Scherzer is on the team. TTSG is selling some sort of election themed deGrom/Scherzer shirts that people are buying for some reason – let’s just say if we rank the Top 100 TTSG Ts this might not make the list – but oh yeah, Scherzer is on the team.
Normally that would be exciting, but we are like two weeks away from pitchers and catchers not reporting and three or four away from spring training games coming off the schedule.
I have 11 Star Wars movies, plus Mando and Boba Fett….could do a Clone Wars rewatch if I get that far, there are 22 good Marvel Movies, the first 700 hours of Star Trek before Kurtzman took over, I could rewatch 11 seasons of M*A*S*H, I could read books, I could go outside….and all that before I fire up X-Box Games Pass. I am seriously fine if MLB never comes back.
But anyway, Scherzer is on the Mets. Normally I’d use a picture of him in a Mets uniform but that doesn’t exist. So I will imagine it looks like this.