{"id":45857,"date":"2018-05-08T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45857"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:28:51","slug":"only-the-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45857","title":{"rendered":"Only the Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not Bobby Bonilla Day<\/a> yet, but it\u2019s never too early for the Mets to get into the national spotlight for doing something stupid and foolish that only the Mets seem capable of doing and whom the sports media loves to point out their screw ups.\u00a0 So when the Mets manage to screw up something as simple as batting lineups<\/a>, and give away a free out because they submit an incorrect batting lineup card to the umpires and opposing team, and subsequently lose the game, it\u2019s newsworthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019ve watched thousands of baseball games in my life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never once seen an instance where a team has managed to bat out of order in a game before.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019ve seen blunders on double switches and managers accidentally burn a pinch-hitter or a relief pitcher in critical situations before.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen a guy walk on three balls instead of four balls because absolutely nobody from the umpires, players and both teams were paying attention.\u00a0 But never before have I ever seen a game where a batter went up and took an at-bat out of the predetermined order, and then get caught for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d say that this is something that only the Mets would seem capable of doing, but seeing as how absolutely everything baseball is recorded, naturally, there\u2019s citation of when this happened last time, and apparently it really wasn\u2019t that long ago when this happened, back in 2016.\u00a0 But because nobody gives a shit about the Milwaukee Brewers, nobody seems to have noticed when they did it, but because the Mets are notorious for screwing up just about everything there is to screw up in the game of baseball, and the media loves to point out when it does, it becomes news worth talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously though, what stupid shit for the Mets to fall for, and despite the fact that he was kind of a colossal fuck up in Washington, good on Reds manager Jim Riggleman for knowing exactly how to play the situation, and waiting for the precise moment when the Mets were building up some momentum to reveal the blunder, and completely wipe out any positive juju that they were beginning to feel with a runner on second with only one out.\u00a0 Naturally, the Mets would have to, and did lose the game, in extra innings no less, where had their blunder not occurred, might not have even been on the table.\u00a0 Who would ever know how things would have played out had the Mets not been so perpetually boneheaded?<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody will ever know, but because it\u2019s the Mets, they\u2019d probably find a different way to mess things up and lose, because that\u2019s simply what the franchise seems to do best.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not Bobby Bonilla Day yet, but it\u2019s never too early for the Mets to get into the national spotlight for doing something stupid and foolish that only the Mets seem capable of doing and whom the sports media loves to point out their screw ups.\u00a0 So when the Mets manage to screw up something … Continue reading Only the Mets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,45,52],"class_list":["post-45857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-fail","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45859,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions\/45859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}