Mets Prospect Might Be 80 Percent Egg At This Point

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Rumor is that Brandon Nimmo got traded from the Mets because he and Francisco Lindor fought about Donald Trump. Nimmo's always been a rat MAGAt, so consider this the one and only time I'll give Lindor his props.

I'm still LOLMets'ing though. ALWAYS LOLMets.

ALWAYS.

#LOLMets

[...] 1975, featured maybe the most cartoonish moment in Shea Stadium's glorious 44-year history, harbinger of its doomed dystopian future. It happened during a 200th-anniversary tribute to the U.S. Army, a notable programming choice to begin with, given the Mets' long-standing rep as the city's beatnik franchise. Tom Seaver, in particular, had been an eloquent and outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, back when that was still a risky position for a famous baseball player to take. Six weeks earlier, Saigon had fallen to the Viet Cong and America had watched our citizens fleeing by helicopter from the roof of the embassy. And so with the wounds still fresh from our greatest military catastrophe, here was a pregame tribute to the glories of the U.S. Army, complete with ceremonial cannon fire.

The cannons were supposed to fire
blanks, of course. And technically they did, but they still blew a giant hole through the right-field wall and ignited a fire. The poor bedraggled field crew, barely halfway through their year from hell, had to sprint onto the field, douse the flames, and patch up the fence in time for [outfielder Elliott] Maddox or someone else to crash into it during the game. That night, over dinner, America watched Walter Cronkite close his CBS Evening News broadcast by roasting Shea.

"Army, 21, he said. "Fence, nothing."

-- So Many Ways To Lose by Devin Gordon (ch. 4, "The House That a Well-Connected Lawyer Built")

#Mets #SheaStadium #1970s #lolmets #NYChistory

Dodger pitching staff now has pitched 29 consecutive scoreless innings, aided by Jesse Winker's LOLMets baserunning mistake. Without that gaffe, Mets most likely scores on a sac fly in the next at-bat.

#JesseWinker #lolmets #Dodgers #Win4Vin #ITFDB #MLB #Baseball #Postseason #NLCS #Mets #NYMvsLAD #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles