What? The season is almost over? Where did the time go?
Went to the Mets-Marlins game last night. Pretty depressing. The announced attendance was 23,892, or 57 percent of capacity. Seemed like whole sections were empty. With just three home games left, against the Houston Astros over the last weekend of the season, doesn’t look like a great way to go out.
The team is in classic Catch-22 situation. General Manager Sandy Alderson says the team can’t pu out a better product (i.e., afford elite players) unless the fans come out, and the fans won’t come out until the Mets put a better product on the field. The youngsters they have — Jacob DeGrom, Travis D’Arnaud, Juan Legares, Matt Harvey, et al — have the makings of an exciting ball club. They would have to win seven of their final nine games to finish at .500. Lots of luck.
But what really grinds my gears is when the local papers can’t be bothered to include actual stories about the games anymore. That was the case in The New York Times today. Rather than covering a meaningless game (as far as playoff connotations go), they relied on an AP “story.” And when I say story, I mean four paragraphs. Plus it’s more from the Marlins perspective than the Mets; the opening graph reminds us that Giancarlo Stanton is done for the season, a victim of a a pitched ball to the face. That was last week; move on.
The next graph begins “Wearing their bright orange alternate jerseys…”
Are you serious? Who’s writing this, an intern? Someone who doesn’t cover sports? WHO GIVES A S*** WHAT COLOR THE JERSEYS ARE??? Are we back in the 1940s, before there was television?
The final two graphs go back to the loss of Stanton. So basically you have the score and that Henderson Alvarez pitched well. Thanks a lot. Granted, you can look up the word “lackluster” in the dictionary and find a description of this game, but even so.
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