I doubt that Mendoza ordered the retaliation. (As Ronnie and Keith said, they would have done that in his first at bat.) Sounds as if the bullpen was sitting and stewing and Yohan Ramirez, eager to impress his new teammates, was "going into business for himself", as the wrestlers say.
(Either that, or Severe No defied Boy Genius Mendoza's orders, multiple times, which seems less likely.)
I suppose there's an argument that the coaches (especially whomever is the bullpen coach) should have made it clear not to do that after the HR, but I'll forgive the slip-up.
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Soooo, Ottavino gave up what proved to be the deciding run, eh?
Aren't you glad he came home,
Westheim?
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So, I decided that I might as well enjoy my free week of GKR, just because it's them, without paying for anything more or giving a **** about the mutilated "games" or watching any other telecasts.
Then I fell asleep (I'm at the age where a pre-noon nap happens, and I was all busy all morning and delayed it) and missed the first five innings, which is all for the best. So I still haven't seen Severe No pitch for the Mets. Looks like I dodged a bullet.
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One of the things that got me all agitated was dealing with how the entire world wants to destroy Israel and exterminate my (former) co-religionists (especially as how the "support" of some Evangelical Christians is proving to be as phony as I had cynically suspected), so I am loathe to criticize Harrison Bader, but
oy vey, the Bronxville Kid is working hard to destroy that "Jews are smart" stereotype, eh?
First he runs into an out trying to stretch a hit when the Mets are multiple runs down, and then he strikes out at a pitch right up at his eyes. I haven't seen such poor control of the strike zone since Doc Gooden used to toy with Raul Mondesi.
You
putz! And I don't mean J.J.!
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Things I Missed Last Season Dept.: for some reason, I thought D. J. Stewart was black. Especially after I found out he was named "Demetrious Jerome Stewart"
Huh. Apparently Bader isn't the only not-so-bright (ex-)Jew out there.
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Pete's home run was very nice. Not a Kingman flail at all. And he had a line-drive single before that.
Good, I like good hitting.
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But as I said, I'm only here for GKR.
Loved the discussion of road trip food (Keith is
not eating the grasshoppers in Seattle!). Ronnie has the Cincinnati trip (which sometimes even Gary doesn't take), so he will have the Skyline Chili, which is beloved in the Queen City, which Gary completely does
not understand. He despises that stuff.
As you may recall, one year Gary responded to the backlash from Cincinnatians by talking up Graeter's Ice Cream, which he called "the best ice cream in the world". (Double the butterfat, you see.) So Ronnie mentioned Graeter's today and Gary praised it again, but said he has to abstain because "I've given up dairy."
Quote:
RON: Wow. You have no vices any more.
GARY (off-camera, but with an almost-audible eye-roll): Oh, let's not go there.
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Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. See, it's
them I miss. The Mets are pretty much incidental.