NIAGARA FALLS, NY – Happy, Monday! We have all 5 (major 4 and soccer) sports going on at the same time. We have preseason NBA and NHL, so no one cares. The soccer teams making the playoffs won’t register with most of our readers, so the main dishes are the Mets and Yanks, MLB Playoffs, and the regular season NFL. With that, let’s get to today’s topics: Mets Update, Plastic Mets Fans, NFL Recap.
Mets Update
I don’t recognize these Mets. They are showing this thing called resilience that us Mets fans are not used to. On Monday, after taking the lead then letting the Braves tie in the bottom of the 8th, Fransisco Lindor hit a 2 run home run to go ahead…. it becomes the winner. Then the Mets went to Milwaukee for the Wild Card series. They won the first game. The bullpen blew the second game. In the third game, they coughed up the lead in the 8th inning. BUT THEN… they get a 3-run homer from Pete Alonso… of all people. Game 1 in Philly, they come back thanks to a 5-run 8th to win. I know they lost game 2 last night but they blew a lead, came back to tie it in the 9th ,only to lose it in the bottom of the 9th. That loss may sting a bit but it really shows that the Mets are never out of it. And that kind of feeling is great as a Mets fan. We just need the bullpen guys to become a bit more clutch.
Plastic Mets Fans
As usual the Mets are good again so all these plastic Met fans are gonna pop up. These guys weren’t there for all the terrible moments. But they live in Queens or their Dad was a Mets fan -or some tripe like that. These guys didn’t have to live through “the Next Doc Gooden” aka Anthony Young. Or Generation K. Who remembers when Rico Brogna was the best player on the Mets? Dick Schoffield at short? How about Bud Harrelson managing or the bad version of Jeff Kent? Not to mention the incredible final day collapse courtesy of that useless Tom Glavine. There are just so many horrible moments that should be burned into your head as a Mets fan.
If you didn’t live it and can’t name it, then maybe you shouldn’t wear the hat.
NY NFL Recap
The Bills may have to fire another assistant as head coach Sean McDermott likes to do. They have looked poor in back-to-back games. They didn’t look as poor as last week but the offense struggled mightily. They had some flash moments, but it didn’t look dominate and when a drive had to happen to run out the clock at the end of the game, they couldn’t do it. They ended giving the ball back to Houston who nailed a 59 yard field goal to win the game.
The Giants and Brian Dabol need an apology. Their cross town rivals were suppose to Super Bowl contenders but now the two teams share the same record. The Giants – without Devin Singletary and Malik Nabers were able to move up and down the field with ease. The defense managed 7 sacks and were a problem all day for the Seahawks. YET, the game was still close, as Seattle tried a game-tying field goal that the Giants blocked and ran back into the end zone to seal the deal.
The Jets looked poor again. Not as bad as last week but I thought the Jets got Aaron Rodgers so they wouldn’t have to deal with a QB that threw three INTs in a game. Despite the struggling offense, the Jets came back and were down by 6 and driving. Rodgers then threw his 3rd INT of the day and ended the Jets drive, game and possibly ther season. They need to go back to the drawing board and find out what is going with the attack once they get inside the 20 . The red zone attack has been poor and is part of the reason the Jets have taken these two bad losses. Rodgers and his boy Nate Hackett need to sit down and figure out what they can do better.
Thanks for reading and come back tomorrow for Ben Whitney, who will tell you why the Yankees will struggle to get to the World Series.
