The Met > Los Mets

I’m going to be honest here, I had “Los Mets > U.S.A.” written as the title of this blog post in the 8th inning. Every fellow American reading this can thank me for jinxing Puerto Rico. No really, wasn’t that comeback fucking awesome? I thought there was no way I’d be this invested in the outcome of the World Baseball Classic, but when David Wright was up it was like I was watching a Mets game. Tightened stomach, tapping foot, typing between every pitch online. When his blooper dropped in, it felt like I was in the midst of the real baseball season. I just hope he can come through like that in the final week of the season this year.

As for Puerto Rico, watching the two Carloses — Delgado and Beltran — play well made me a bit torn (not to mention that I am half PR), and Beltran’s catch in particular made me sad, since I won’t be able to watch him do that at Citi Field due to the high outfield walls. It looked like their duo would be the biggest part of PR’s win until Wright finished the job steroid-abuser J.C. Romero started. Both of the pitchers PR went to in the 9th inning couldn’t find the strike zone, which is never good when you have a 2-run lead — one run of which was handed to PR when Derek Jeter displayed his totally eroded fielding ability. Putting him at shortstop while Jimmy Rollins was relegated to DH almost cost Team USA the game. Maybe they can learn from and build on this and actually make a run at winning the tourney. My money’s still on Japan, even if they are currently losing 3-0 to Korea. That country just cares way too much. If Korea wins, they’ll be forced to kill themselves.

I wish I listened to WFAN at work, just so I could listen to Mike Francesa flip a shit over every caller who wants to talk about this incredibly exciting game. And there will be a lot of them. Because New Yorkers only talk about college basketball because there’s usually nothing else to talk about.

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