[Amazin69]

So I got spoiled for the Mets result on Saturday because I was watching college football while waiting for the Sunday morning replay (which of course was blacked out, so I spoiled myself for nothing), thus ensuring the Mets' victory.

As I said before, you're welcome.

So the highlight of Saturday was watching Paul Severino and Tommy Hutton (Rich Waltz actually hasn't called Marlins' games since 2017…oops) doing the game from in front of the bar in left field (the place that replaced the Clevelander restaurant) and talking about what a great view it was and how much they loved being out in the stands…

…and then today, Gary Cohen spills the beans; they couldn't see a thing from those seats (I didn't think the view looked good) and the noise from the DJ in the bar was so loud they couldn't hear themselves talk. Gary says that Paul told him that when the game was over, he got in his car and put on Mozart to decompress, lol.

Yeah, hometeam announcers have to do a lot of flacking for every stupid idea management has, lol.

Speaking of left field, Nimmo led off today by hitting a ball that nestled at the bottom of the LF fence, below the padding. Brandon zipped over to 3B…only to be sent back to 2nd because the ump had deemed the ball "unplayable"…even though the padding doesn't come down far enough that a ball could get wedged in there, and JJ Bleday actually played the ball, thus ruining the "unplayable" argument.

Who was the buffoon of an ump who made the "dead ball!" call, even though, since he was working the plate, he had the worst view? (It's the 3B ump's call, since he can go to the OF to observe.)

Why…Angel Hernandez, of course! OF COURSE! 24 years since "I've got a plane to catch!" and Angel still can't resist dicking over the Mets. That's our Angel.

(Yeah, yeah, it's mostly just incompetence and it evens out, theoretically. But I haven't forgotten, and I don't forgive, Angel…)