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I love how the 2023 baseball season has barely started, and regardless of the fact that the Mets obliterated payroll records, they still can\u2019t escape being the Mets:<\/span><\/p>\n But as the Mets have demonstrated, all that shit\u2019s just money, and they don\u2019t seem to care how much of it they burn if they think its going to lead to moar winz.\u00a0 The Diaz money is covered by insurance, Verlander will probably still have the best games of his season against the Braves, and well, Cano is a sunk cost that deferred money guys always seem to slip under the cracks unless it\u2019s Bobby Bonilla (also the Mets\u2019 problem lol).<\/span><\/p>\n However, this new jersey patch to commemorate the union between the Mets and New York Presbyterian Hospital?\u00a0 Now that\u2019s some tragic shit, that I can\u2019t believe for a second will actually make it through the entire season.<\/span><\/p>\n When it comes to fans roasting their own team, few are as more savage and creatively funny as Mets fans, and despite being division rivals to the Braves, I have always gotten along well with Mets fans on the internet and I respect their candor and creativity when it comes to slamming on their own teams.\u00a0 And from what I\u2019ve already seen, I can\u2019t really top or better a lot of the shit I\u2019ve seen them dumping on the team<\/a> for the absurdly ridiculous size of this patch.<\/span><\/p>\n But at this mammoth size, I have to imagine that it\u2019s going to be capable of affecting player performance, just because of the general feel and added weight it\u2019s going to add to the sleeve.\u00a0 Like, when a poorly screen printed t-shirt\u2019s design feels hard on your skin instead of the softness of a cotton shirt underneath; it doesn\u2019t absorb sweat and makes you feel wet flesh on a hot day, little things that can make you feel uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n And as neurotic and superstitious as baseball players are, little things that affect the touch and feel of their baseball uniforms, yeah I think it\u2019s completely plausible that these gigantic fucking patches would have the capability to affect player performance.\u00a0 Being on the left sleeve, I imagine a lefty hitter like Brandon Nimmo is going to feel the subtle weight of it when he gets into his batting stance, and it\u2019s going to take a minute for him to get used to it, but any abject performance that occurs in that minute could be the difference in a winning and losing a game, and considering the Mets lost the division to the Braves by just one game, all wins do matter.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe a player on defense will be uncomfortable with there being this bigass stiff square on their arm instead of the light neutrality of no patch, and it fucks up their timing and they start committing errors.\u00a0 Or knowing the luck of the Mets, somehow, the patch is going to come into play for an injury stint for one of their $40M pitchers.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, the likelihood of such coming into play isn\u2019t very high, because if players can adjust to all this pitch clock bullshit, the death of the shift and limited pickoff attempts, they\u2019ll get used to a patch, even if it is the size of a Domino\u2019s Pizza box.\u00a0 But if it did, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising, because only the Mets could be the team that gets derailed by something as silly as an oversized sponsorship sleeve patch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love how the 2023 baseball season has barely started, and regardless of the fact that the Mets obliterated payroll records, they still can\u2019t escape being the Mets: Newly re-signed closer Edwin Diaz out for the season with injury incurred during the World Baseball Classic, still getting paid $19.5M Justin Verlander, who will make $43.3M … Continue reading Would be hilarious if the patch affects player performance<\/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":[62,79,100,45,94,52,58,49],"class_list":["post-49298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-graphic-design","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298","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=49298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49300,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298\/revisions\/49300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n