ExWNYer

Just Like 'Fireman Ed'... Sadly, the road schedule is much sexier on paper than the home schedule.

@Roger Goodell Care to weigh in on this?

That schedule has them in prime time (night) five times plus early Thanksgiving Day plus two 4:25 PM national windows. That is ridiculous for a team that looks like it is going to be a sh*t show unless Jordan Love turns out to be the real deal. They've been given visibility based on their name and history but the NFL may end up with egg on their face. We'll see. I can definitely see them getting flexed out of their late season national games.

If the below is true, then the Packers would actually play at the Panthers on Christmas Eve not on Christmas Day... Week 16, 12/24: @ Carolina Panthers (Noon - FOX) "The Green Bay Packers’ 2023 schedule has reportedly leaked, according to The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman — who had it first. Shortly after Schneidman’s report, it was confirmed by Sports Illustrated’s Bill Huber, meaning that you don’t have to wait until 8 PM Eastern for the league’s schedule release show to start planning accordingly for this upcoming season." https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2023/5/11/23719545/2023-nfl-schedule-release-green-bay-packers-full-schedule-prime-time-primetime-leak-report-update

Doesn't surprise me. They were an exciting, high-scoring, 'feel good' team last year but they have been a dormant franchise for decades and have proven nothing yet. I'm sure there are still a lot of skeptics out there and it does seem like an odd match-up to open the season.

Lions hit the big time...

Not too far from Nazareth either.

It's an AI mash-up when you enter 'Dennis Rodman Bulls' and 'Madonna Like a Virgin'...

Thanks for sharing. Great story. Believe it or not, I have never seen a Mets home game. My cousin (originally from Jamestown, NY & went to NYU) and her boyfriend live in Brooklyn. She does not care anything at all about sports but, as a lifelong New Yorker, he is a diehard Met fan. He wants me to come up sometime and see the Mets with him so that is on my bucket list. I made a road trip with my brother and some buddies to Pittsburgh to see the Mets play the Pirates in a weekend series at Three Rivers Stadium way back in 1987. I still have the ticket stubs for those games. I think they cost something like $8. They won one of those games, 5-4, on a Keith Hernandez Grand Slam. Rick Aguilera started and got the win and Roger McDowell saved it. My worst Met memory (in person) was a game against the Orioles at Camden Yards (gorgeous ballpark). I went with a co-worker who was also a Met fan (originally from Port Jefferson, L.I.) and his nephew. I remember telling him before he got the tickets, "I hope Steve Trachsel isn't pitching when we go." I despised Trachsel. He made my skin crawl and always seemed to sh*t the bed when pitching for the Mets. He was a bum when they got him and continued to be a bum as a Met. The only other Met pitcher who even comes close to that disdain for me is Doug Sisk. Well, guess who pitched for the Mets that night? Yep...Trachsel. And guess who lost another game for the Mets? Yep...Trachsel. lol FYI...my coolest memory in Camden Yards (non-Mets related) was seeing Ken Griffey, Jr. hit a Grand Slam. I haven't been to a ton of games but I have been fortunate to witness some Grand Slams by some superstars. The most recent live game I attended was last July in Toronto to see the Jays beat the Tigers. Ex-Met Javy Baez hit a HR in that game for Detroit's only run.

I agree with you and I don't believe that simply shortening games will draw younger eyeballs either but I think MLB does. The majority of their audience is over 50 and they are desperate to stay relevant for future generations. When we were kids I believe the time of the average game was similar to what we have now (too lazy right now to go look it up) but they didn't seem rushed like they do now. The games started getting bogged down somewhere along the line with batters stepping out of the box to adjust their gloves, crotch, helmet and do whatever other OCD quirks and superstitions they had coupled with managers changing pitchers after every batter. They definitely had to do something but I don't have those answers. This is all definitely a work in progress and will take some getting used to, at least for me. The rule I hate the most is the ghost runner in extra innings. If I or anyone else have watched a game past the ninth inning do they really think we're leaving now?? I don't need the game shortened at that point. I'm invested and want to see it to its conclusion and the cat and mouse that goes along with determining the outcome. I also agree that one of the great joys in life is shooting the sh!t with friends/family at a ballgame. You don't need to pay attention to every second of the game which is part of the charm and beauty and it's a bonding/social event as much as anything else. The smell of the grass, the manicured field, the smell of the concessions, and the buzz of the crowd are magnificent and add to the magic and the ambiance. Baseball is the most beautiful of games, IMO, and I think you either like it and get it or you don't just like soccer for many people. If it weren't for baseball and my beloved, albeit frustrating, Mets the Bills off-season would be interminably longer than it already is.

MLB doesn't care about old coots like you and me despite the fact that we are their core audience. They want these fast moving games in the hopes of reeling in the cellphone-addicted, short attention-spanned, brain-dead youth who would rather watch two hours of TikTok videos than the Great American Pastime.

I agree. It was disappointing to see Verlander give up those back-to-back jacks but make no mistake, he is NOT the reason they lost that game. It's just annoying that every starting pitcher on the team is allowing HRs at an alarming rate. The team starting ERA is over 5.5 and the WHIP is pushing 1.5. What is that?! I was griping about the lack of power on this team last year and Eppler did nothing to change anything. They are a 'work out walks and play station-to-station team' and that does not play well over long stretches in today's game. Today they only walked once and struck out 11 times and over the course of the last two games they managed a grand total of 1 run on a combined 8 hits. I don't expect a sweep of the Rockies because A) Colorado has played really well in their series with the Brewers and B) the Mess are 2-9 over their last 11 with 7 of those 9 losses coming against the Giants, Natalies, & Tigers. I know it's baseball and tomorrow can look completely different than today but, until they prove otherwise, I don't trust them to beat the scrub teams they should be beating. They just got swept by the lowly Tigers. One win against Colorado would be a start (albeit a bad one).

@Gugny@SinceThe70s@Another Fan So Verlander got the first out of the game and then allowed back-to-back HRs. Awesome.

Trading for Queen would be a drag...

@Gugny Scherzer is now the 'proud' owner of a 5.56 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP. WTF...I thought David Peterson had been demoted to Syracuse but, apparently, he's alive and well and has taken over Max's body. Detroit was hitting nobody coming into this series...and I mean NOBODY...but leave it to the underachieving Mets and their decrepit 'ace' to right the listing Tigers' ship and turn them into the 1927 'Murderers Row' Yankees. Would anyone really be surprised at this point if Verlander's season debut ended in a Motor City Kitty sweep? I wouldn't. 'The Mess' have now lost 8 of their last 10 games with 6 of those 8 losses coming to the Giants, Natalies, & Tigers. Those are the games you're supposed to be taking advantage of to climb the standings. This sh*t show of a staff has allowed more HRs than any other team in the National League. Should be fun when Carrasco and Quintana come riding in on their white horses to help throw gasoline on the tire fire. This team was supposed to be built on its pitching. Helluva build there, Eppler. Another not so fun fact that Gary laid on the viewers during the nightcap was...get this...this year's Mets pitching staff is the WORST at this point in a season since the inaugural season of the franchise in 1962...a team that still holds the MLB record for futility with 120 losses. Good times...

He looked like complete sh*t. Gave up 5 earned runs on 75 pitches and was yanked after 3 1/3 innings and two men on base with the Mets trailing 5-1. He's looked cooked this year other than his first start against the Padres when he went 5 innings and gave up nothing. Another "who the hell is he?!" pitcher came in to relieve Scherzer (Zach Muckenhirn) and promptly surrendered an RBI single before getting out of the inning on a double play ball. 6-1 Detroit going to the bottom of the 4th with all 6 earned runs charged to Scherzer who already had a less than stellar 3.72 ERA coming into the game. And the bats are impotent once again. Small payroll or record-breaking payroll, they always become the same old frustrating f'ing Mets.

So it's either ending tonight or extending to 26 straight as they just choked away Game 1 of the doubleheader to a Tigers team that was 10-17 coming into the day. The Mets had a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the 8th and Ottavino gave up a two run, two out single and they lost, 6-5. Again, this team just gives away far too many games against inferior opponents. They have now lost 7 of their last 9 and Nimmo, who struck out on a check swing with the tying run at first to end the game, is in the middle of a 2-21 slump. He needs to turn it around, ASAP. Scherzer goes in the nightcap and Verlander makes his Met debut tomorrow afternoon. They need to take these next two, no excuses.

Glad they got the split. I watched all of the first game and then decided to save myself any more torture and skipped the second game. The first time I checked my phone they were up 2-0, the second time I checked they were down 3-2, and the third time I checked they were up 4-3 on Alvarez two-bagger and then I saw it was 5-3. A sweep would have been nice (they blew a golden opportunity) but a split is certainly better than nothing. Was that stat actually that it was the 25th straight time that they've at least split a doubleheader? Because I know they've swept some in the last few years.

Escobar hit a two out solo shot in the 9th and they ended up losing, 9-8. Eight men LOB and they chased all game after getting into a 6-1 hole. Just like I said, a 'woulda, coulda, shoulda' game. It was there for the taking and they pissed it away. Here's a not so fun fact which sums up the day...prior to Escobar's HR, Gary said that the Mets were 42-0 in the last forty-two games where they scored 7 runs. Until today against Atlanta, of course. I fully expect a 5-0 or 6-0 type of loss in the nightcap. Sack up and prove me wrong, Mets.

Bases loaded & no outs in the bottom of the 7th and they managed to plate two runs but they had first & second with one out after scoring and stranded both runners again. Down 9-7 after seven.

Baty hit a solo shot to RF in the bottom of the 6th to pull the Mets within one run at 6-5. Pham followed with a PH walk and they stranded him at 3rd base. They have had multiple opportunities to tie or take the lead and keep crapping the bed. And then Sean Murphy hit his second 3-run HR of the game in the top of the 7th to make it 9-5. It's death by a thousand paper cuts with this fugging team.