[Amazin69]

Yeah, I'm not asking for a newsbreak, but it should have been MY choice to stick with the game, rather than only seeing news of historic political violence in my YouTube flow after the fact.

And since the first source that popped up with the news was an obscure channel I'd never heard of, I legitimately thought that it was just clickbait bull. It took multiple random videos showing in the flow before I stopped downloading old NFL games and decided maybe I should check it out. A far cry from the days when Howard Cosell announced the assassination of John Lennon in between plays of Dolphins-Patriots.

(OT: the 43 years between the shooting of Reagan and this is the longest respite in political violence since the start of the Republic. It took 46 years between George Washington's 1789 inauguration and the 1835 murder attempt on Andrew Jackson. And then 1865, 1881, 1901, 1912, 1932, 1950, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1975 [2x] and 1981, before we started to get a handle on this crap. [/OT])

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Good work by Nunez, who becomes the 9th different Met to post a save this year. One hopes that Carlos Mendoza Line doesn't work him to ineffectiveness, as happened with Garrett.

Of course, things work better when the Queens Qrushers post a .945 OPS as a team, as they did from Tuesday through Friday. (Presumably yesterday kept the stats up, but I don't have the exact figure as yet.)

There's certainly a benefit to playing the Gnats and the Rockies. As long as Manly Rob Manfred is striving to destroy every last drop of history and tradition in MLB, do you think we can slip him a few bucks to re-align us into a division with those two teams and the Angels and the White Sox?