Metstradamus - Complaining After A Win? Sure, Why Not!

 

By metstradamus | May 26, 2021 1:12 am

I’ve been really chill about the Mets 3-7 stretch. So you’d think I’d be ecstatic over the Mets 3-1 victory tonight. So of course, it would make perfect sense that I would have stuff to complain about. So we’re going to make this blog entry one big Hate List. So let’s get right into it:

Today’s Hate List

1. So Tomas Nido hit a two run home run to make the score 3-1 and provide the margin of victory. Excellent. Nido is wonderful. But the home run had to be reviewed, because the ball hit right above the wall, where there is stupid M&M’s signage right over and just behind the wall. So Dom Smith keeps running and slides awkwardly into home plate. Now you know the Mets and their injuries, so the first thing I’m thinking is “great, he’s hurt.” But there’s a ten minute review because the ball hit signage that doesn’t need to be there. And it’s not just Citi Field. All of these ballparks have advertising and gates and flowers and lots of things that are just over the outfield walls so that when baseballs hit them, there’s an automatic lenghty review. Say this for the multi-purpose ballparks of the 70’s, you never needed a home run review because the ball went into a vast wasteland of parking lot. But for crissakes, every home run that’s just over the wall requires a ten minute review because of advertising and other stupid stuff, and yet these brain surgeons that run baseball are sitting in an office going “why are baseball games so long?” DUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
2. Speaking of replay, Jacob deGrom came back tonight, and save for a home run by Ryan McMahon, deGrom was brilliant for five innings. He also hit a double. The boxscore will only give him credit for a single, but he beat the throw to second by a mile, and save for a millisecond just off the bag, he stayed on the bag. But because replay knows no nuance, much like the brain surgeons mentioned above, deGrom was called out. Now it’s impossible to differentiate between plays like this and plays where the player actually loses the bag out of carelessness, so everything has to be called. But for crissakes replay was put in to correct the obvious. And in some cases, the obvious goes unchanged. But deGrom loses a double because his spike hovered over second base for 0.01 seconds.

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