Baseball

I noted my lack of passion for baseball this year and mixed feelings about various new rules. They had COVID issues, but not as many as one might fear. Overall, I watched. The Mets, who are still not officially eliminated from the expanded playoffs (elimination number of 1), had their usual disappointing "should have been better" season. Usual injury woes. New star: David Peterson. Usual high points and "we can do this!" Usual failure.

Compare the Marlins, who besides looking crisp each time the Mets played them, crafted in a sort of garage sale way a playoff team. Teams do manage to work with what they have and not spend 10 million or whatever for fifth starters. Consider Tampa, leaders of the AL East. The new Mets billionaire owner picked Sandy Alderson to run things. Let's see how that goes.

Update: Mixing regular with novel, playoff hopes ended in a seven inning makeup in a game where each ace for the Mets and Nats (lousy season) struggled, the tying run for the Nats came via an inside the park home run when Dom "not really an OF" Smith ran into a wall and messiness/wildness contributed to runs too. 4-3 loss, Degrom gets a No Decision.