[Westheim]

Mets beat Fish, 6-5 in 11 innings. Not that they didn't have a bazillion chances to win it in due time, if not a decent time (for me).

(checks the clock) Yeah well, it's not like I'm gonna get much zzzzz now anyway, so why not rant for five minutes.

First, Big Pete gets an A with a star today. 3-for-4 with a big-*** homer, two doubles, all RBI's in regulation, and a walk in the 11th that turned into the deciding run in the end, and also some rather spiffy defense including a glove-first plunge into first base to get an out on D.

Second, Huascar Brazóban got his first career save because for some reasons we tried to lose the game with Boom-Boom Diaz in the eighth (!) but didn't, and Brazóban got the last two outs when Alex Young had already set fire to the team bus.

But, oh-boy, oh-boy, oh-boy-oh-boy! The rest of that silly team!

Clay Holmes is hard to watch and didn't last five innings, although he was thoroughly undermined by ludricous defensive decrepitude far beyond what you'd expect even from the Mets on getaway day in the Teal Palace. Vientos, Baty, and Taylor all had their clownshoes on and did their royal best to throw the game away, and two of them even more than once. Given that at one point all three of them were also threatening to lose their superficially valiant battle to even bat for a decent room temperature (Taylor got a hit late, while Baty was thankfully disposed of when he became the free bogus runner, and Vientos was just all-out **** cakes) - maybe it wouldn't be the worst idea to clone Pete into a couple more infielders with average D that can actually whack the ******* baseball?

Lindor and his puny, *puny* $341M contract are also having another one of his patented bottomless starts to the season. I hear he had his tire fire game with the glove yesterday, so he's not gonna get a passing grade.

Soto didn't do a lot (right or wrong), and I have already forgotten who we had in left because my brain has shut off now.

And Winker is and always will be a Stinker.

Although I'll tolerate him if he hits .280 with 25 homers. Which he's so far not on a good trajectory for.

Thanks to the replay center for getting the call on that horrendous Baty throw to the plate right. Whoever the Mets catcher was at that point (we used all of them), had to make body movements normally reserved for owls to dig that one out and slap it on the wrist of that face on the Miami Ghastlycolors - who was initially ruled safe at the plate for what woulda been the losing run, except that Angel Hernandez has retired and the people in the TV room can now actually use their ******* eyeballs to see that he got the out by the barest bit of contact.

Yay, Mets, 3-3 and looking all hollow under that Billion Dollar Payroll...

I am so tired.