Get off the Interstate NOW!!!
Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 6:01 pm
May 1 is traditionally a good time to remind players that a crappy start is about to turn into a crappy season if they don't reverse field immediately. Instead we here at the Crane Pool waited until May 2.
The good news is the Mets currently have only two players on the interstate, and really, it's only one, as the other has had his contract sold to the Red Sox.
The bad news is that the Mets have six key players — five of them regulars or semi-regulars — hitting between .200 and .220, and that just leaves a bad taste.
Back to your interstate drivers, though.
Zack Short is now an MLB teammate of Dom Smith with Boston. When last he was seen in a Mets hat, he was on Interstate 11, heading Southeast out of Vegas toward Boulder City, NV. I don't think the Mets are going to re-acquire him just to get him into respectable territory, but he's welcome to hit that exit as a Red Sock and save everybody on both his teams some embarrassment.
Omar Narváez, on the other hand, is still a Met, and if he's not our number-one catcher, he's 1A, and barring anything dramatic, he's expected to remain so until mid-summer. But one thing that will be sufficiently dramatic is him getting stuck on that damn highway. AND THERE HE IS, craning his neck in the right lane, looking for a way off Interstate-46. The really scary part of this is that Interstate 46 doesn't yet exist. The proposed bypass between Garner and Morehead City, North Carolina was at one time given that designation, but that project may or may not be dead, now believed to no longer be necessary following an extension of I-70 in the same area.
And I have to say, if there's no pavement, Omar's gonna have some problems finding his way home.
The good news is the Mets currently have only two players on the interstate, and really, it's only one, as the other has had his contract sold to the Red Sox.
The bad news is that the Mets have six key players — five of them regulars or semi-regulars — hitting between .200 and .220, and that just leaves a bad taste.
Back to your interstate drivers, though.
Zack Short is now an MLB teammate of Dom Smith with Boston. When last he was seen in a Mets hat, he was on Interstate 11, heading Southeast out of Vegas toward Boulder City, NV. I don't think the Mets are going to re-acquire him just to get him into respectable territory, but he's welcome to hit that exit as a Red Sock and save everybody on both his teams some embarrassment.
Omar Narváez, on the other hand, is still a Met, and if he's not our number-one catcher, he's 1A, and barring anything dramatic, he's expected to remain so until mid-summer. But one thing that will be sufficiently dramatic is him getting stuck on that damn highway. AND THERE HE IS, craning his neck in the right lane, looking for a way off Interstate-46. The really scary part of this is that Interstate 46 doesn't yet exist. The proposed bypass between Garner and Morehead City, North Carolina was at one time given that designation, but that project may or may not be dead, now believed to no longer be necessary following an extension of I-70 in the same area.
And I have to say, if there's no pavement, Omar's gonna have some problems finding his way home.
