Kinda nice. Hat Club.
Hat Club Ice Cold Fashion Mets Cap
Mike Piazza to join Fox News’ 9/11 Coverage
The Five – The Fox News roundtable will air live from Citi Field ahead of the MLB’s New York Mets versus New York Yankees game, preempting regularly scheduled programming. Former Mets’ manager Bobby Valentine and retired Mets’ player Mike Piazza, both whom were with the team in 2001, are scheduled to join. Airs: 5 p.m. ET (on 9/11)
Interesting choice by Mike, who you may recall reportedly attended a Donald Trump rally in August 2020.
The Five Aces: Matt Harvey faced Steven Matz! How did they do? You’ll look
Kids, once upon a time the Mets had FIVE ACES. The greatest Ace of them all was Matt Harvey. Some called him The Next Seaver. There was also Thor, who has not pitched in the majors in 2021 and today is September 1st. There was a guy named deGrom who everyone kind of ignored. Someone named Wheeler who the Mets let go to a division rival. The 5th ace was a guy who looked like a young Joe DiMaggio, one Steven Matz.
And tonight he was the opponent as once again The Dark Knight Returned. Let’s check the numbers.
You can’t even see the netting. There is one out in the first and…..OH NO
Matt limited the Blue Jays to just the one home run….and we get a sad version of the traditional Matt Harvey Walks Back To The Dugout shot.
On to the second…Matz had a Harvesque inning with some hits and walks, and forcing in some runs with walks…but I’m mainly a Harvey Blogger so you will have to take my word for it. Matt takes the mound with a 2-1 lead and Matz is already at 55 or so pitches!
With one out, Matt walks a guy which usually isn’t a good thing, and Matt knows it.
But TDK throws a 6-4-3 and has a sigh of relief.
In the third, a one out double could be a cause for concern. But not tonight. Matt gets out of it, and takes a long look at the umpire to see if blue wants to check the replay on the 3rd out. He does not.
In the 4th, OMG baseball is so boring. So someone got on while I let the dog out. That guy got swapped out in a fielders choice. The new runner, Bichette, stole second. A hit knocked in the run. The third hit of the inning brought out the pitching coach and let’s check Matt’s pitch count.
And a two out double puts Matz up 4-2 and I am hoping for one more Blue Jays hit so I can go watch TV!
The Blue Jays do not hook me up. I’m hoping Brandon Hyde has finally learned with this guy. Matt was really laboring that inning and his body language reminded me of ME when my volleyball team is losing and I start futzing with sand and “cleaning” my area. Hopefully this is our last look at TDK tonight…
4 innings 4 runs on 6 hits with a walk. No Ks.
How did Steven Matz fare? I dunno man, he was winning when I bailed. I want to watch What If. Google “Blue Jays”
MATT HARVEY WILL RETURN
Post: Mets acting GM Zack Scott busted on drunk driving charge in White Plains
Long time readers know I enjoy the sass and sarcasm but as this is a VERY serious topic I will pass along without editorial comments.
Acting General Manager Zack Scott is facing driving while intoxicated charges after he was busted dozing in his car in Westchester County — down the block from the police station, The Post has learned.
Scott, 44, was nabbed in White Plains at 4:17 a.m. Tuesday when cops caught him snoozing in a 2018 Toyota on South Lexington Avenue near the federal courthouse and police headquarters, the city’s Police Capt. James Spencer said Wednesday.
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“We take this matter very seriously,” the team said. “Zack will not be traveling with the team for our upcoming road trip while we learn more and determine next steps.
Hours before he was busted, Scott was at Mets owner Steve Cohen’s home for a team fundraiser with other players, sources told The Post.
Jeff Passan tweeted: As @Joelsherman1 reported, the fundraiser at Steve Cohen’s house ended sometime around 8:30 p.m. or 9 p.m. The DUI arrest occurred about 7 hours after that.
The Mets tweeted: We were surprised and deeply disappointed to learn this morning about an alleged DUI involving Zack Scott. We take this matter very seriously. Zack will not be traveling with the team for our upcoming road trip while we learn more and determine next steps.
You were MAD AS HELL but oh wait the Mets won, never mind
So what I learned yesterday, is a Mets player could do the worst thing imaginable (I don’t want to even voice what that night be, just imagine some horrific behavior) and if that person goes 3 for 4 or hits a HR or strikes out 10 guys….nobody cares.
For all the anger from all day Monday, one 9th inning wiped it out for a lot of people. One of the notorious “True Boycotters” on twitter was calling for a mulligan. What happens if the Mets lose that game 5-1? Does Baez still get the mulligan, or is the truth that none of you care about anything as long as the Mets win a game.
All season I keep coming back to these lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s Long Walk Home.
My father said, “Son, we’re lucky in this town, it’s a beautiful place to be born
It just wraps its arms around you, nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone
You know that flag flying over the courthouse means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we’ll do and what we won’t”
WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE’LL DO AND WHAT WE WON’T.
Baez came right at us. RIGHT AT YOU. And now you want to give a mulligan. Absolutely not. There is no forgiveness. There is no road back for El Must-Go. Lindor is now Bonilla. This is Uncle Steve’s clubhouse. This is full Wilpons circus. Except of course the Mets won so everyone is cool again, just like how in 2015 nobody said Wilpon and even the True Boycotters found loopholes where they could attend games.
Speaking of the flag….
Great job by Dave backing that up with photos.
And one win does change a lot of hearts and minds. I had to block one fool, a semi-famous fool, for calling Gary Cohen “the Vin Scully of this generation” or something.
Excuse me?
Sure Gary bothered to do one call where he was excited yesterday but TAP THE BREAKS.
You know how John Sterling “sucks” because he calls every home run “It is high, it is far, it is gone”….what do you think “to the track, to the wall, it’s outta here” is? It’s like Gary took Sterling’s signature call and rocked it through Google Translate a few times until it became Track/Wall/Outta. Gary Cohen might be better than the random guy calling the Rays-Marlins game, but he is not Vin Scully. Stop being willfully stupid.
Anyway, maybe one of the Mets could burn a flag or something today but then go 4 for 7 in the doubleheader tomorrow, just to see how crazy you all are.
In the meantime, I say booooooooo.
And now, some good stuff from The Ringer
If the Mets were still in first place, we probably would still be talking about the black jerseys. Because this controversy isn’t really about Báez, or even the fans. It’s about the fact that the Mets have gone 8-19 in August, and within four weeks went from having one hand on the division title to being out of the race altogether. That’s why Cohen is bad-mouthing his players on Twitter. That’s why, when Marcus Stroman criticized Daily News writer Deesha Thosar for being negative about the Mets, Thosar was able to say she was reporting the truth about a disappointing team. That’s why the fans are booing. And that is the main reason the players are so frustrated.
The Mets came into this season with huge expectations and have failed to meet them. Of course everyone’s frustrated. But the level and universality of that frustration didn’t have to reach the breaking point we saw on Sunday.
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Like most Mets cataclysms, this incident will fade into the background. Báez’s free-agent stock won’t be affected. Lindor and the fans will make up because, with 10 years left on the shortstop’s contract, they really don’t have any other choice. But blowups like this will keep happening. Not only because they happen all over sports, but because the Mets’ senior leadership keeps pushing blame downstream. Fixing a problem requires proactive leadership at all levels, not just appointing a fall guy. (Via The Ringer)