Mo Votes Than Tom

It is natural for Mets fans (though yes, fans in general as well) to make the news of baseball...Metscentric. We're diehards. It's our passion, and they are the team within the sport we follow the closest, and for most of us, by a wide margin.

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So, it is natural for the news about Mariano Rivera being the only player in history to receive 100% of the Hall of Fame ballot immediately to make me think negatively about it from a Metsian point of view. Yes, I will celebrate him the same way he was celebrated prior to being walked off on back in 2013 on the Field they call Citi. He was clearly a force in the back end of the bullpen that helped anchor the last great dynasty of the 20th century who got greedy at the expense of Kurt Abbott's Mets in the first year of the new millennium too. Mariano Rivera is a hall of famer and should be recognized for his contributions to the constant evolution of what it means to be a reliever. Sure-fire first ballot hall of famer.

And yes! Ken Griffey, Jr. had already surpassed Tom Seaver with a total percentage of 99.32 contrasted with the pitcher's 98.84 in their respective first years on the ballot. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. though. How can you be mad? or fake mad/sports mad, I mean? It's asinine that either of these players were not thought of as surefire first ballot hall of famers by some people out there, though who really knows anyway what people's actual intentions are in not voting for them the first time they get a chance to do so.

Of course! However...Tom Seaver, one of the greatest starting pitchers of all time, could not get 100% of the vote, even if it held as the highest percentage ever voted for for a long time. It was a Yankee! and a reliever at that! who is the first person ever to get 100% of the votes. Not a Met. And the one who represents their greatest player for a team very well known for its pitching. The contrast in how Mets the moment is was just so glaring to me it was the first thing I thought about when it was announced he got 100% of the vote.

Cheers to him and Yankee fans.

But there's a massive eyeroll occurring over here.
Oh, Mets.

And Carlos Beltran will probably request he does NOT have his best stretch of years represented on his cap.

I guess I'm just in a smirky cynical Mets mood instead of "optimistic Mets mood."

It's either exclusively the Mets or the fact I'm writing this at a Safelite Auto Glass near Pittsburgh waiting for my front windshield to get fixed. It's probably mostly the Mets.

There's really only one thing of note I should be always angry about when it comes to the Hall of Fame...

VOTE. GIL. IN. NOW.

LET'S. GO. METS.

Random Mets Highlight of the Day

So, we got ourselves the 4th all-time installment of the Red Sox and Cardinals World Series matchup. It was fitting back in 2004 that Boston, who at the time had lost twice to St. Louis in 7 games (1946 and 1967), had to beat their Fall Classic foes to "reverse the curse" after exorcising their Yankee demons.

Now, though I'm a HUGE Carlos Beltran fan and will always wish him the best (that swing is so sweet...), it will certainly sting to see him win his first World Series with the Redbird on his chest. The series should be a great one, and I expect it to go either 6 or 7 games. Let's Go Red Sox. I can't do my usual thing here and root for the NL team.

Clearly, there is too much Red in our October faces, and not enough Orange and Blue. We crave that feeling in this (finally) chilly Fall air once more, and will have to wait at least a year till those Metsian hues are in our eyesights this late into the season.

I don't care what any of you say, however you find a way to complain about every bit of news or no news that comes across your brains. The bottom line is we love this game, we love this team, and there's no way in the Fall of '68 when the Tigers and Cardinals took each other on in the World Series that people were saying, "Don't worry. We'll finally see the Mets in the series next year."

So, as the old adage goes...Wait 'till Next Year.

For now, though, for the sake of a quick smile and for the sake of maintaining this blog, I present to you the Random Mets Highlight of the Day.

In the stream of consciousness that is me writing this right now, I have yet to pick this Random Met Highlight.....So, let's see what we can find...

Yeah...This'll do.

ORANGE. AND. BLUE.

LET'S. GO. METS.

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And the Irony is Lost on Mo One (Badum...)

As I arrived home with the radio in my ears and Mo on the mound, I certainly thought how ironic it would be that the Mets, who honored him with throwing out the ceremonial 1st pitch, would see him save Matt Harvey's 1st loss of the year. The combination of Mo's track record (along with the Citi Field 300th save he knotted) and the Mets offense's ineptitude lately, one can imagine how little faith ye could have that what went down would go down.

But it certainly was a beautiful thing to hear, and lovely to watch as the highlights rolled in. 

I may even watch the condensed game in a little.

But for now, I got a little self-promotion to deal with:

The following is my new site regarding a premium cable period piece dramatic series called Bedford & Sullivan, a show about Brooklyn, it's Dodgers, and how both were affected by the rapid transition into Modern America. Read all about what I have in mind and where we stand.

http://bedfordandsullivanbrooklyn.blogspot.com/