The Mets Police

I was playing me some Super Mega Baseball (I have to show you guys the new orange uniforms I made) instead of wasting my time watching a practice game and my SS who is named The Virus came up…

…and that got me thinking, “Hey, The Virus isn’t on any MLB team!”

Could this be it at age 35 and 2100+ hits?  Doesn’t Wags like giving old guys long contracts?

So I searched for his name and I saw THIS…

That’s THE Jose Reyes right?  Not just a musician named Jose Reyes.  This was posted to a Youtube page yesterday.  The page says it is the page of Jose Reyes  La Melaza, so yeah I think it is the Lame Laza himself.  (He blocked me, he’ll never see this.)

While I’m not into this style of music, it sounds like it is a good version of this style of music.  Plus I like the new look – way better than wearing blue and orange with a 7 on the back.

Fascinating…

Oh…and thanks for this Jose. This will be useful…

 

While we’re talking music – the video was proceeded by a video for a bank using Michael Jackson’s awesome awesome record Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough.  I’m sure Michael (not the most popular person in the world right now, dead or alive) would be thrilled to know his song was being used to show some annoying woman having a fancy dinner.

I’ve taken to writing about Other Things on Saturday, and this morning there’s this weird hole of nothingness before the Big First Practice Game, so I thought I’d share a thought that popped into my mind as I was waking up this morning.

My son wound up a soccer player.  Through his play I have become quite the soccer aficionado.  No I’m not hitting games in Manchester or even that many MLS games, but I do enjoy the sport in a way I didn’t 10-15 years ago.

I was a baseball kid from Queens.  Even used to coach baseball before I had kids – and have my Queens CYO Division Champs satin jacket to prove it.

So I had this fantasy that I’d be coaching my son in baseball all these years.

Then he tried out, and baseball has this stupid Age Cutoff rule.  My son is born at the end of April…which means he misses the April 1 cutoff.  The net result, he had to play with “the younger kids.”   This is out of sync with the way school grades work.

So instead of playing with his friends, on his friends’ team….he played with the younger kids.  And thus grew disinterested.

Oh, and he could play….but I wasn’t part of the local baseball mafia because of the hours I was working back in the day.

I would ask every year – hey you think we could play him “up” 20 or so days.  Nope, no way, can’t be done.   Except of course for (name changed) Timmy, whose dad was on the board.  He somehow not only could play for his age, he could play a year up.  Fun how that works.

So Junior got bored with baseball and we focused on soccer, and I assistant coached for many years until the kids got older…and am a pretty serviceable youth coach at the younger ages – match me against Generic American Dad Coach and I can probably help a team win a game just off tactics.  (I love Holding Midfielders.)

My son, who I dragged to all those Mets games back when, is just not interested in the sport.   When we do talk sports its usually NBA or NFL.

So, parents of ten years ago, bad job by you on being stewards of the game.  I’d be OK with a rule is a rule, except when its not if you’re part of the baseball mafia.  Oh, once they got to like 8th grade they needed a few extra kids to field one more team….we got asked if Junior would like to play…..this would be the playing “up” I had been asking for since he was 9.  Guess what I told them.

 

 

Someone please go to Dom Smith’s room and wake him up!  Be on time Mr. Smith!!!!!  Mickey Hodges does not mess around.

SLACKISH REACTION:  Look, I know you’re excited but listen to me.  Don’t waste your Saturday afternoon on practice baseball.  You should do whatever it is you do on Saturday and record the game.  Then when you’re home tonight with a beverage near the fireplace you can watch the file.  You’ll get one inning of semi-real baseball, with some Mets playing Guys In Braves Uniforms.  By the third inning you may actually see me paying for the Mets.  It’s not worth it.  Save your free time and don’t waste it.  This can wait until 11pm.  Even if you get spoiled.

As part of my cord-cutting I set a season pass for METS and YoutubeTV will recored every game.  As for spoilers – its Spring Training, does it really matter if you hear that the Mets beta the Braves 8-5.  No, it does not.

Here’s how you can watch or listen to all the games this week.  

And since I’m not a total scummy clikbaiter, here’s the weekend info:

Saturday vs. Braves 1:10pm:   SNY, ESPN+ (interesting) and radio WCBS 880

Sunday vs Astros:  1:10pm: WPIX and radio WCBS 880

I did NOT get the MLB App this season because of the commercials level issues of the past.  MLB taught me to live without their product, and now I do.  Hopefully WCBS will not turn on the WahWah device WOR had so I can enjoy my some Howie.  Again, not today, I am not wasting a Saturday afternoon on this.

Never mind Mickey Hodges, the Post has a good story from Cleon Jones about the Gil Hodges story.  You should read it, although newspapers are really kidding themselves quoting Paul Harvey.  Nobody under 50 (49) knows who the is Mr. Newspaper.  Maybe quote Ninja next time.

“After that point,’’ Jones said, “we were a different team. I never shared this with anybody because this was between Gil and myself. But I know everybody thinks it was one of those situations where he could have handled it a little bit differently, but he had a purpose and a plan, and it worked. (via NY Post)

“So I don’t mind being part of that purpose and plan. I’m telling you guys that he is a great manager and one of my favorite people.

 

NOT LINKING:  All kinds of nonsense about New Philosophy, Fresh Starts and stuff you can probably eat about all 30 teams every year.  No thanks.

The Dark Knight has returned….to Instagram!

 

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#springtraining @angels

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Always working. #LAASpring

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Hmmmmm.

 

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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…..and I’m all out of bubblegum

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I’m very afraid of these.

SLACKISH REACTION:  Surprisingly quiet morning unless you think some Mets showing up on SNY at Duffy’s is exciting.  It is not.

Here’s how you can watch Mets games on TV from Saturday until Thursday.

KB is gonna call some Rays games this season.

Let’s look back on the Most Awkward Mets Press Conferences of All Time

And that’s it today.  No need to drag this out.  Nothing going on.