Chapter 1: What happened during the Mets' Opening Day win over the Pirates?
I'm just going to say one thing right here. This is going to go down as the O'Neal Cruz day because he was horrendous, and Paul Skeens was ticked off walking off the mound. Not a lot of people are talking about this.
I was looking at some of the Pittsburgh write-ups about the game, and they're all going right after Cruz and how horrendous he was in the outfield yesterday, one of the worst defensive outfielders in baseball, by the way. He misplays two balls in the first inning, and all hell breaks loose, and the Mets get a huge break. I mean, those should have been outs.
And maybe Beatty is going to be a sack fly anyway. But nonetheless, you have five new guys in the lineup. Five new guys had RBIs yesterday. It's a great way to get started. Benj gets his home run because you like Benj, I like Benj. Everybody loves Benj.
Chapter 2: Why did Oneil Cruz have a rough day in the field?
We all love Benj. And I would say that, you know, O'Neal Cruz was also the guy who ended up getting struck out with a pitcher's challenge. That's right. He's walking to first base. And it was kind of interesting that that happened, and he was involved in that as well.
And I guess you would say that he thought he had a walk, but ended up striking out there, and then the next batter hits a home run. Brandon Lau, his second one. Exactly. So, you know, a lot of things weren't right for the Mets yesterday, but it was a great start. I don't want to take anything away from it. It's game one. They scored 11 runs. They had, I think, nine or ten walks in the game.
They didn't give up any walks, by the way, but they did give up quite a few home runs, which was a little bit unsettling. But nonetheless, it's 11 runs, and when you see the lineup, and it's amazing because you talk to a lot of people over the last day or so, After you see the lineup in person, all there, you say to yourself, wow, that's a pretty long lineup.
Especially at the bottom of the lineup, kind of like the Yankees had opening night. The bottom of the lineup is going to actually hit and participate. When the top of the lineup, other than taking a few walks, really doesn't participate as much. That's a great way to get going. O'Neal Cruz was just an absolute disaster out in center field.
Yeah, I mean, in the first inning, it was a mess. But, like, I also want to give the Mets credit in the fact that, like, the Luis Robert Jr. at bat in the first inning where he ends up taking the walk, fouled off a gazillion pitches.
You know, the fact that the Mets are putting those balls in play, and one of them, I mean, obviously the Beatty one was hit harder than the one that he just completely just lost in the sun.
and dropped and that was just a depth perception thing with the Beatty one um but they were just relentless so yeah I mean when you put balls in play and you're you're aggressive and everybody is hitting the baseball things like that could happen for you and that's that was the most exciting thing was was that I mean these long at-bats mentioned the Rob Lewis Robert Jr.
one later in the game Bo Bichette we he ended up striking out in that at-bat you should have walked He should have walked at that event, but still, it was 13 pitches, fouling pitches off. I mean, that's the type of stuff that if you could do that in the postseason against good pitching, that's how you win.
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Chapter 3: How did the Mets' offensive performance contribute to their victory?
And that was really, really impressive. So, yeah, I mean, this is just, and also, you know, Howie Rose gets a win, gets to put it in the books at his final opening day, gets to say that. You know, the bench home run after some strikeouts he had there.
So, yeah, O'Neal Cruz helped out the Mets, but I also want to give credit where credit's due with the team because I thought they offensively were spectacular without ā I mean, and Francisco Alvarez, by the way. I mean, what ā this is what we want from him. That type of power, that type of pop, and that type of sass around the bases.
Keith Hernandez told us yesterday he thought he was going to have a pretty decent year because he lost some weight. Yeah. And maybe he took it a little bit more serious this offseason and wanted to come back and have a good start to this season. And certainly that was a nice hit and a great home run. And the place exploded when he hit it.
Chapter 4: What were the significant moments involving Oneil Cruz during the game?
And, you know, it's just ā it's great when guys at the bottom of the lineup participate like this. But, again, it's one game and ā When Paul Skeens was walking off the field, you could just see his face. Like, he wanted to look out in center field and just.
Yeah.
I mean, but you can't do that. I mean, you can't do that. I get it.
He also said the right stuff after the game. Of course he is. Well, he said, you know, I don't feel. He's like, everybody wants to make a bigger deal out of this. But, you know, the Mets did a really good job of getting to me, so I'm not as mad about it. But he's never got any personnel. But, yeah, I'm sure he wants to wring the guy's neck. I mean, he gets it.
By the way, you know, we're all thinking, you know, when the Pirates get the 2-0 lead, it's like, oh, I mean, with Skeens out there, you don't know. That might be the game. It's true. It turns out he didn't even get three outs.
Yeah, but you got Cruz out there in center field, so thanks to that. You know, the other thing, I thought it looked great. And I have to say, as bad as the Netflix... production was of the Yankees and the Giants. Yesterday, I thought NBC did a great job. Yeah. And by the way, they had a really top-notch booth. And I got to give Matt Fesker a lot of credit. For getting there. That guy's an animal.
He does the game before for Netflix and then does yesterday for NBC Peacock. That's a private jet spot there for you, right? It has to be. He's not sitting in those TSA lines. He's saying to Netflix, look, I'm not doing a game unless you get me a private jet after the Yankees and Giants are over and I'm flying back.
Sure.
I got to get some sleep. I got to be treated like a professional. And I'm sure he was, which he should have been, because he's really good at what he does. And yesterday, I really thought the broadcast was great. You know what?
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Chapter 5: How did the Mets' lineup perform overall?
And this is kind of weird. I know it has nothing to do with the game. It has everything to do with the production of the game. I mean, the drone shots of Citi Field, I thought were really cool. So, I don't know.
That's just me and myā Yeah, I mean, I did notice it. What I also noticed about it was they kept it very tight, where you saw nothing around Citi Field.
Yeah, you don't want to see anything around Citi Field. Right, exactly. That's about it.
It was just a stadium, kept it very tight. You're not going to see anything else around it. This was not like the Oracle Park where you see everything out there. Did you see the people in the kayaks and the water? No. This was just very tight, and it looked cool, and they showed some views that you don't normally see there.
Chapter 6: What role did the bottom of the lineup play in the Mets' success?
at Citi Field. But yeah, I like the broadcast. I mean, at times it felt like there was maybe, you know, when Adovino was in there, maybe too many voices and trying to figure out who was saying what. But Neil Walker, who does Pirates games, was there. You know, Al Leiter, obviously, who's been calling games for a very long time. And then Adam Adovino, who...
I thought he was fine. Yeah, no, he was fine.
He was good. I mean, sometimes it's like how many guys do we need to be talking about the one baseball game? But they were all good. And Adovino, anybody who's ever been around him says how sharp he is. And sometimes he says some controversial things. We've heard that before. But everybody says he's sharp. I am not surprised that he's dipping his toes in the broadcasting right now.
Yeah, he definitely should.
He definitely should, yes. Yeah. But I'm with you on that broadcast. Yeah, it was just, I know that. It was baseball, man. It was baseball, man?
Yeah, it was. It was baseball, man. It wasn't like Netflix jamming every single possible thing that they could jam down our throats. And then raising the rates to the next day. Yeah, exactly. How about that? Well, listen, they got to pay for stuff. And, you know, it's interesting. I was talking to a TV friend of mine. I was saying, hey, you know what? Netflix, this was the Super Bowl for them.
That's basically how they treated it. Well, the NFL games on Christmas were more the Super Bowl for them, weren't they? Well, I would say that, but for this right now at this point in time of year, like opening game with the Giants and the Yankees, come on, prime time?
Yeah.
This is on the East Coast. It's definitely they're going to treat it like that, and they did treat it like that, and it was a disaster. Yeah, I mean... It was brutal. Yeah, I know. I don't know. I just... It was... Look, dude, we said it yesterday. We'll say it again. It was brutal. And you compare the two broadcasts. They have the same lead guy in Vestgergen.
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