Tom Brennan - TOMORROW IS...
"Tomorrow is..."...you finish the sentence.
Tomorrow is Friday, yeah, baby, the harbinger of the looming weekend for most who toil amongst the laboring class.
Tomorrow also starts December, the blessed season of Christmas, Hanukkah, even Kwaanza for the Kwaanza-ites out there, and office parties (no, not for you, Matt Lauer) and bonuses for some. At Macks Mets, the "bonus" that readers receive is Freedom of Mets speech. Nice, don't you think?
We may even get tax reform, giving us more shekels to buy 2018 baseball tickets and Dominic Smith jerseys if you wear XXL. (Kidding aside, he seems to be 100% focused on conditioning, weight loss, and winning the 1B job outright, based on what I read today). Corporate tax rate reduction should make stadiums more crowded with corporate fat cats, as businesses likely will spend more freely, I'd think.
But December also brings us great stuff like....
TRADES, DEALS, RULE 5 DRAFT, MORE STORIES ABOUT MATT HARVEY'S NEW AMOUR, AND THE LIKE.
In the wonderful world of the Mets, it is a month of player moves that often leave us disgruntled, or downright snarly. But even the...there is egg nog to help us make it through.
We also commemorate the horrific December surprise called Pearl Harbor....but maybe this off-season, this December, will bring Mets fans a few pleasant surprises.
It all depends on this....will the Wilpons again be the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, or the enlightened Ebenezer Scrooge?
December is a month where much occurs, so we'll soon all find out, Mets-wise, exactly what that entails.
And pass the egg nog, will you?
After all, Tomorrow is Only a Day Away.
Gotta know: is there any other type of nog but egg?
ReplyDeleteYes, Hobie, we acquired NOG for Reed....Steve Nogosek
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a small block or peg of wood.
One of my worst Mets NOG moments was when Gibson beaned Tommie Agee with the first pitch of the spring training of 1968 - right in the noggin.
ReplyDeleteI also saw the movie "42" with Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford last night, the Jackie Robinson story - quite good. In the movie, he takes a deliberate pitch right off the noggin from a bigot pitcher.
Your comment about tomorrow got me thinking Shakespeareanly (if that's a word) -- Macbeth to be precise:
ReplyDelete"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
The last sentence must refer to the leaks out of the front office.
Hey Thomas you forgot about Winter Solistice, Saturnelia & Festivus for the secular rest of us !
ReplyDeleteTomorrow is... the deadline for deciding to tender contracts (or not) to eligible players, meaning we can do a reverse Turner by signing someone else's reject.
ReplyDelete@Metsiac -- that's assuming there is another GM as vindictive and equally dim as Sandy Alderson in choosing to cut loose a quality player.
ReplyDeleteReese is a Poet, he knows it, and he hits clean up.
ReplyDeleteEd - my secular oversight. Keep David Wright off the secular - he could hurt himself.
@Thomas I think that ship has sailed
ReplyDeleteCan my friend Reese EVER make a comment without a slur against Terry, Sandy or the Wilpons? How long until Mickey catches the flak?
ReplyDeleteThe clock starts ticking on Mickey Callaway on March 29, 2018. I'm not a big believer in rewarding mediocrity. Hopefully he will do as well as we all hope, but considering the limbo champion height at which his predecessor set the bar, it's not going to take much to show improvement. For that I blame the Wilpons and Sandy Alderson for tolerating things as long as they did.
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