The Mets, somehow crossing off all their interleague matchups early in the season, play for the first time in their history in the
Indomitable City, aka
The City of Trees — the suddenly major-league city that is Sacramento. The city that launched The Cramps, Daniel Johnston, and Molly Ringwald; the city somehow simultaneously responsible for the Unholy Trinity of Stains on American Culture that is Morton Downey, Jr., Rush Limbaugh, and Lee Greenwood; the setting of
Lady Bird,
Step-Brothers, and
Eight Is Enough; is now, against all probability, somehow playing host to a rematch of the 1973 World Series.
Strange times.
Griffin Canning, whose Metness you are probably still adjusting to, leads the attack, while The One and Only JP Sears defends for the A's. JP, you may recall, throws with his left hand, so look for Tyrone Taylor and Luisangel Acuña to be deployed by the visitors. Also, make some time for the sonorous tones of Ron Darling as he poetically recalls his time as an Athletic, in the whitest of home whites, with shoes so spectacularly white that they incorporate them into the logo.
