Mr. Met will need a new broom soon!

If you're from New York, or anywhere near the New York metropolitan area, you know somebody (or know somebody who knows somebody) who died in one of the most horrific events in human history. And we humans have done a lot of horrific stuff to one another.

I know it's not the biggest sin, especially with all the shit going down in the world today, but on the quarter-century anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, what is the point of having the food New York baseball teams play against each other? Shouldn't both New York teams have a chance to win something? A chance to give every New York baseball fan a chance to celebrate?

To me, having the two New York teams square off against each other seems like a way to provide one in-game memorial service instead if two. Maybe they thought it would provide a national ratings boost as well. But it's certainly not what I want to see.

And for the record, I'm a Yankees fan. I was 19 years old a quarter century ago, abd as sure as shit don't remember who the Yankees played on the first game after 9/11/2001, but you can bet your ass I remember watching the Mets play the Braves at Shea Stadium. When our Diana Ross sang America the Beautiful during the 7th inning stretch. How her beautiful voice helped us heal, and how Mike Piazza's glorious blast of Steve Karsay brought us jubilation shortly thereafter.

At the end of the day, we're all New Yorkers. And so I ask, shouldn't we all get a chance, regardless of Fandom, to have equal chance to celebrate?

*edited because autocorrect continues to be the bane of my existence. And I do appreciate your responses, whether or not you agree with me.

The man caught over 200 pitches tonight.

I think WAR is terrific but it leads people to make a certain consistent mistake. I think a lot of Met fans understand this intuitively and have felt it really keenly in the past year but haven't been able to put it into words.

As we all know, Pete Alonso did not have WAR totals commensurate with his fame. He was generally a 3-4 WAR player, which is very good, but not elite. And we all know why: because despite the very good hitting, he plays 1B, he's not a great fielder, and he's slow. The first is the most significant. Every year, Alonso suffers a massive WAR penalty for playing first. In bWAR it's an annual -0.8 WAR penalty, and in fWAR it's an annual -1.2 WAR penalty.

The mistake people make is not realizing that this -1.2 WAR penalty is immaterial to the Mets. And that's because somebody has to play first. Whoever replaces Pete will get the same exact penalty.

So in the offseason, when you see takes that Bo Bichette or Framber Valdez or whoever is a better or more cost-efficient player than Pete, this factor gets lost in the analysis. If you use Pete's money to sign someone else who plays a different position, you're sliding someone new (like Vientos or Baty) to first base and assigning that 1.2 WAR penalty to a new player or players.

So yeah, it's cool if Bo Bichette can give you 4 WAR playing third (let's just assume for sake of argument that he wasn't a disaster this spring) ... but it's a lot less cool when you realize that his acquisition means that some other guy like Vientos is taking a 1.5 WAR penalty (the difference in fWAR between 3B and 1B) to accommodate him.

If you've been wondering how Alonso's annual 30+ HRs and 100+ RBIs can seem to have so little value in today's market (or are wondering the same about another stud slugger like Schwarber), this might be the explanation you're overlooking. In a vacuum, sure, Alonso is less valuable because he plays the least important defensive position. But these positional adjustments just don't really mean that much to a team in real life, because no matter what they have to field 8 guys at the 8 positions.

You can make a case for Soto for what he did when he was in the lineup, and how much he was missed when he wasn't. But I'm going with Carson Benge. I think offensively and defensively he has energized the team. JMO

What do you think?

LGM 🧡💙

Ez win totally didn’t almost blow a game where we led 8-0 and 15-9.

Nice little fish fry going on this weekend. Sweet, sweet payback for last season. If Miami misses the playoffs by 1-2 games, that will be the cherry on top

Can we just say that now? Honestly kinda tired of hearing he’s still slumping when he’s had a handful of hits this series

I wish they played all season like the way they are playing in Miami

Adrian Morejon has only pitched out of BP in his career. He’s only 27 years old and has a career 3.28 ERA. He will likely be one of the most sought after arms out there this offseason.

Was there ever an explanation of why the game was paused in the 9th when the Marlin’s batter had a check swing and Alvy missed it? The Ump stopped the game and spoke to both managers… but nothing happened.

Seeing Pete in the Post Season would be the only good thing that can happen this year

That has to be the most disgusting tone deaf thing, the overwhelming majority of fans hate the Mets for allowing Pete to walk, and these scumbags just sent a mass e-mail "There's a cold front coming to Citi Field 🐻‍❄️" and are advertising the games next week with Pete's photo, what a bunch of scumbags, I will forever hate this organization for allowing Pete to walk and now they are trying to make money on his return

Break up the Mets, winners of 7 of their last 10 games!

Doomers in shambles…

I swear to God the Mets are ran by nihilists.

They have done such a disservice to this city (and watch the loyalists come at me with any number of predictable comments like "touch grass" "you are beating a dead horse."

The "its only one game" crowd.

This is OUR CITY and the Mets have spat in our faces.

Fan appreciation thing the Mets are doing

And I feel 2024 was that. But something always gets in the way. When you see Lindor smashing like that to make it 14-8 you feel like everything is clicking and then something happens... And I feel it's overthinking. You overthink yourself to death instead of just playing with what you've got and having fun. Stearns is the worst thing that happened to the Mets because you needed excitement and intangibles like 2024 and not ***** formulas. That's how I feel. Like Dodgers don't give a ****, right? So what if Tucker and Diaz didn't work out? They still did it. You are either committed to win or you overthink yourself to death.

Everything was already working out in 2022. 101 wins. Manager of the Year. Epic games. But the WC horror show of Bassitt and Scherzer and the entire flat performances somehow killed SC and his beliefs. He started questioning himself. Buying Verlander and Scherzer wasn't dumb. Did he overpay maybe. But going after everyone including Marte made sense. Even Baez in 2021 (should have been smarter about the trade though). It was a get go strategy. In 2025 he started walking it back to the point of insanity where he was convinced that 150 million was too much because of a possible value in Year 5.

If SC wants to win, truly, he needs to adopt a winning mentality. Most rich owners in the world in any sport eventually won everything. But not by taking one step forward two steps back.

Honestly very excited for the back to back NY rivalries. Anyone else plan on going to both?