It's not like the Mets are gonna have anybody but Butto (if that!) to start Game 2, right?

I'll not watch the second game btw, it's gonna be almost 11pm here by the time it starts.

MLB.com now shows Lucchesi as starting the latter game.

If I'm the Snakes, I'm filing a complaint with Numbfred's Numpties first thing tomorrow morning =)

Lucchesi is on the 40-man?? Since when??

I'm shocked it's not Stanek. He has plenty of opener experience and he's already warmed up. Get a couple of innings out of him, then use Butto for the bulk work.

Well, he's now. As far as I can tell one of the Youngs got the axe. I can't tell you which one, because they are both as meaningless and nondescript as each other.

At least the 2015 Mets' two Torreses were easy to tell apart. One was good, and the other wore a silly hat.

My, Grant Holmes is a schlubby little fatso.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for pitchers. I merely take note.

Mets Lineup, game 2

Our Acuña, ss
Candelita, 3b
1947 Roy Cullenbine, I guess*, lf
Peeeete, 1b
Marte, dh
Taylor, rf
Bader, cf
Torrens, c
The Wrong Alvarez, 2b.

*-Cullenbine was a switch hitter and I doubt he ever played CF, but I couldn't think of a better comp for "walks guy who had a power burst while his average collapsed in his 30s" At least I suppose I should salute Mendoza for his genius, or some such.

(Eh.)

(briefly pauses brushing his whiskers and turns his ears as if someone had called his name)

(resumes brushing his whiskers)

I miss Guillorme.

Building a case here:

Alex Bregman is a free agent after the playoffs
Alex Bregman is a third baseman
Alex Bregman playing third base for the Mets would allow us to shift Vientos to the fake position
I like Alex Bregman

Make it happen, Uncle Steve!

You think Stevie spends on both Peeeete and Bregman? That's a lot of jack, Jack.

Also, I'd rather have an extra spot open for the McNeil/Iglesias/Lindor/Acuña/Vientos logjam. They can't all move to the OF. (Not to mention that the Mets don't have the best success record for moving infielders to CF [see Juan Samuel, Mike A. Marshall, Amed Rosario].)

Also, Ronny Mauricio might heal before the Apocalypse.

Also, making Vientos a full-time DH at such a young age might impede his development. (Pete hardly seems to like the "sitting and hitting" job. Why not show similar consideration for the younger player who's outhitting him this season…and who is more likely to be here next year?)

**********************
On a different subject, last week, Brandon Gaudin told his captive (via DirecTV edict) audience that the Atlanta music guy is named Clay Matthews. (Presumably not the NFL Hall of Famer or his multiple All-Pro son, albeit you never know.)

Matthews is still playing walk-up music for visiting players, which still seems to miss the point, IMO. But he's had some good ones, recently.

I'm not certain about his use of "Bingo" for Nimmo (trying to get the crowd to sing "N-I-M-M-O, Nimmo was his name-o"), but in the second game yesterday he did bust out The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother)" for Our Acuña (fair enough) and then he finessed the "Iglesias means 'church'" issue by playing "Chapel of Love". Good work overall, I say.

Also, Bregman is a cheating Buzzstro. What, Jake Marisnick wasn't bad karma enough?

The Metsies go up 1-0!! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Also, from the highlights video it sounds like Boog Sciambi has the mike, which would actually make this a non-atrocious game to watch. :ohmy:

Ah, **** it, Thursday is our national holiday thingie thing, so I'll be a naughty boy tonight and watch Game 2 live, no matter how many Red Bulls it takes! :woohoo:

Yeah, it's Sciambi. He seems nice enough, albeit he was a bit obsequious in talking about how great the local broadcast teams are (and defensive about how home team fans criticize national announcers…dude, we've heard Doug Glanville. It's not just "he's not Keith", trust us).

And I do know that he can let a game wander. (That Cubs-Phillies game I checked out in the vain hope the Scrubs could delay our elimination was a complete mess. Only good news is that I learned Philly is the only press box where they have actual ice cream…every place else is that "soft serve" crap. Which, wtf, people? Seriously, wtf?) So I'm not too excited about him and Dougie, even if there was a refreshing lack of Michael Kay.

Good game, though. Some awful defense early (Vientos not knocking down a soft chopper from the 1st batter, Frankie TWICE being so concerned about holding a runner at 2b that he didn't properly cover the hole, a botched relay set-up leaving 2b uncovered), but the offense responded immediately both times the Brewers scored and there were some excellent cases of going with the outside pitch by Vientos and JD that kept rallies going. And the pitching did a fine job of hunkering down when it needed to.

And apparently Jesse Winker and Willy Adames are old friends, going back to last season as "teammates". That was some serious woofage going on.

Big win, no Diaz, as it should be. One more, please.

(Manaea's stats appear on the screen)

ME: Wow, top 10 in ERA and Innings? Maybe he does deserve a nice contract.

(Manaea gives up an instant homer)

ME: Or maybe not…

I nodded off during the KC-O's game and then started this game 45 minutes late and skipping out the ad breaks. [Side note: new for this postseason, the real broadcast ads are no longer filtered out for international viewers! Now I know why Americans are the way they are. :) From singing Zach Braff to your DIY colonoscopy-at-home set...]

Do the Matons have beef with another? Phil doesn't look like he wants to visit little brother Nick in Philly this weekend.

That's what I thought at least while he got his brains beaten out in the eighth inning, and only then found out that Nick Maton is no longer with the Philthies and has recently been designated to oblivion by the Orioles, who also were designated to oblivion by the Royals today.

True Metsian bottle job here. At one point Boog tallied the runners left stranded and the Mets were up 9-4 there while leading a skinny 3-2.

And that was before the Brewers threw shade on Maton.

Blech.

Hey, Braff and Donald Faison keeping up the "singing interns" bit from Scrubs (not the Chicago baseball team) is at the higher end of American adverts, these days.

I do find myself wondering what it's like not to have expensive and dangerous drugs pitched at you all evening, I agree. And I really don't like that they're now trying to sell you by having Random Happy People singing about semi-glutides (which probably aren't even legal in Europe).

Even though I survived a mandated Cologard™submission in 2020 (you hang the little bucket across the toilet, poop in it, seal the top, put it in the provided box, and leave it for the lucky FedEx person to pick up), I've always found the talking test kit in the ads more than a bit ridiculous. Now we have Random Happy People singing about the test, with the talking kit delivering the pitch in between choruses. Can't wait until the version with the singing poop in a few years…

Oh, yeah, the game (speaking of singing poo…)

Never thought I'd say "Should have brought in Ottavino". And yet, here we are.

Also, for $20,000,000 per, Pete could learn to toss his bat out of the way. I'm just saying. Yes, it probably saved us Yet Another LOB, but still. What a schmuck!

I always hated Scrubs. I only watched it ironically to then get into fights on the forums discussing TV series I was roaming at the time trying to convince everybody how awful it was.

And then I found baseball and it made me a better person. :)

Okay, YOU be the judge!

I don't feel confident for all-or-nothing-but-tears Game 3, because too many games against the Millers have ended in tears in recent memory. Same for Quintana picking up a baseball.

Start time changed to 7PM EST (01.00 CET) due to a sudden lack of competition. Apparently, at least 3 teams out there know how to hold a lead.

Should the Mets survive, the next round of telecasts is AL games on TBS and affiliates (Ronnie calls Royals-Yanks and a Seth Lugo start, perhaps?) and NL games on FOX. So we have a 50% chance of Smoltz, which is decidedly un-good, but any port in a storm. Survive and Advance, that's the motto.

(Or "sad, desperate hope", one or the other.)

"[Jose Iglesias] ain't no pop star. Candelita is the pop star."

Bold words about professions from a third-rate imposter of a color commentator, who in the first inning mused about how terrible it is for the Brewers to miss William Contreras' bat from the lineup WHILE CONTRERAS WAS BATTING.

Butt-Oh.

In a repeat of the first game on Monday, the Mets were face down in the water for eight innings before randomly upending a reliever and punching themselves another week of baseball, somehow.

And Pete hit the score-flipping, 3-run homer!! :woohoo::woohoo:

If the Mets don't resign Pete after the season, it will totally break my little heart. :crying::crying::crying:

Congratulations, Mets fans! Your moving on is as improbable as my Tigers.