Mets baseball is back and it will solve all of our problems
In typical 2020 fashion, baseball is now really weird. There are cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands at Citi Field. Yoenis Cespedes is finally playing…as a DH. There’s a phantom runner on second base to start extra innings. Some ball parks are piping in recorded crowd noise. Relievers now have to face a minimum of three batters and there’s an expanded roster and something called a taxi squad to stand in for dormant minor league teams. It’s all going to take some getting used to, but we’re okay with that because we get to root for our favorite team again and that’s exactly the distraction we’ve all been pining for during this upside down year.
Despite missing the playoffs last year, the Mets had a great second half and offered a lot of reasons to cheer – with a home run king, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, and the emergence of an unstoppable hitting machine. This team is loaded with talent and personality and there’s every reason to believe we’ll have plenty to cheer for in this abbreviated 60-game season.
We’re in a tough division, maybe the toughest in baseball, with four out of five teams in the NL East boasting competitive rosters. Our lineup is the deepest and most powerful one we’ve had since 2006 with table setters Brandon Nimmo, Amed Rosario, Jeff McNeil, and Jake Marisnick waiting to be driven home by a parade of thumpers including Pete Alonso, Michael Conforto J.D. Davis, Yoenis Cespedes, Wilson Ramos, Robinson Cano, and Dominic Smith. For once, the Mets pitching staff won’t need to be lights out for this team to win.
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