[Amazin69]

In the last game I watched, the Mets were eliminated from the 2022 post-season and held to 1 hit (a solo shot by Polar Pete).

Back for Opening Day, and the Mets go oh-so-quietly, as Milwaukee allows only one hit (solo shot by Marte).

Okay, okay. I can take a hint. Byeeeeee

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A few nice nostalgic notes:

• God, real baseball is still gorgeous. Can you imagine Corrupt Bank Field 80% glassed-in, just so they can deploy the roof a few times a year? EWWW.

• Did not realize Jim McAndrew had passed. Did he get a memorial thread here?

• Cute that they had 23 of Buddy's family throw out the first pitch, as 23 was his number as coach/manager. Hard cheese if you're the 24th member, though.

(Or did they run out of actual relations and make a few of the ushers 'onorary 'arrelsons? Don't know.)

• Hilarious bit in the 4th inning with Gary suggesting that since Steve Gelbs was doing PbP in spring training, he might need a JD Martinez-style minor-league assignment to get back to peak reporter shape.

• The return of the "Lou Brock!" graphic/music, even though Keith is correct that he has to be the one to say it, so Ronnie doing it shouldn't count. (Especially as I have a feeling Ronnie only did it to provoke the graphic.)

Btw, the Ernie Broglio for Brock trade was 1964, not 1963.

• Forgot that Jonathan Niese got the Opening Day start in 2013.

• Michael Tonkin comes into the game and Gary gets his "gulf" pun out of the way. Of course, as LBJ was lying about that, logically Tonkin should be a bust…

• Kingman hit a truly Kingman-esque pop-up in his final AB. "Home Run in an elevator shaft", we used to call them. (He also rather looked like Kingman in the field. You're better than that, Pete.)

• Carlos Mendoza, Boy Genius, had Lindor hitting 2nd and Squirrel McNeil in the clean-up slot. I would think that putting "former batting champion" ahead of "guy who hit 30 dingers last season" would be a no-brainer, but apparently not.

Mendoza also let Harrison Bader (career .668 v RHP) lead off the 9th, even though there were lefty options on the bench. Yikes. Hope Boy Genius isn't from the Luis Rojas Boy Genius school. (They coached together in the Bronx last season.)

• WTF is with the tiny letters on the players' names on the unis? I'd be glad if they just got rid of the names, but no need to give the fans eyestrain. Are they trying to save money?

• And nice to see that Rhys Hopkins went to the Chase Utley Sliding School. You can take the d-bag out of Philly, but you can't take Philly out of the d-bag, it seems.