FLUSHING, NY – There’s the faintest of a sports-related buzz out here at Citi Field, though it’s likely the spill-off Knicks roar coming from Madison Square Garden. But hey, I’m a Mets addict, so I’ll award the buzz’s origin where I want. With that, my conflation of team awareness leads us to today’s topics: Give Mitch a Mitt, Mets Still Alive, Vintage Bobby V
Give Mitch a Mitt
Granted, one 4-hour sports talk show after the next needs something to talk about. Cue Mitchell Robinson and his broken pinky. Some hosts were invoking Wilt “20,000 Dames” Chamberlain, and his underhand free throws. Turns out Wilt The Stilt stopped doing them because he felt he looked like a “sissy,” despite being pretty good at it. The hosts then talked about how Mitch won’t try the underhand arc because he’ll get grief on social media. REALLY? Are you sh!tting me? No Knicks fan would give him grief for that – they just want him on the court to block shots and be imposing. He can do that with a bad finger. In fact, why not just have him play with one of Francisco Lindor’s base-running oven mitts? You may remember Lindor, we played for the Mets in the first two weeks of the season and makes $30,000,000.00 per season. (Tape the calf and play, you p@ssy).
Speaking of the Mets season…
Mets Still Alive
Juan Soto, you’re winning me over. Unfortunately, “winning” hasn’t happened much for Juanderful Juan (TM) & Co. When the do win, it’s in excruciating fashion. Last night was a perfect example. The Amazins took a cozy, early 5-1 lead and made into a 10-inning, vomit-in-your-mouth, ugly win. BUT… a win is a win is a win. And don’t look now, but the streaky Metsies are on a TWO-GAME TEAR! With a big Hall of Fame induction ceremony today, and “the next Tom Seaver” taking the hill id the form of Christian Scott, they could make it THREE IN A ROW. That would get them just 8 games under .500, and when Louis, Jr, Polanco, Alvarez and Lindy get back anything is possible! Ya Gotta Believe! My guess, however, is that they won’t win today, and us embarrassed fans will try to hide our identities wearing some type of silly disguise.
That segues to…
Bobby Valentine recreated his famous disguise to throw out tonight’s first pitch pic.twitter.com/APC7i3lGw9
— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) May 29, 2026
Bobby Valentine
Bobby V is back! Unfortunately, it’s not as manager but as a Mets’ Hall of Fame inductee. And to show he still has his finger on the pulse of Metsdom, he tossed the first pitch last night in his infamous nose-and-glasses disguise. Say what you want about Valentine and his Kermit The Frog voice, but there is no denying when it comes to Mets fans, he knows how to work the room. He also knows how to win baseball games with sh!tty players. You hear me, David Stearns? Bobby got the Mets to the World Series with an outfield of Timo Perez, Jay Payton and Benny Agbayani. And Rick Reed was his 3rd starter.
