Mets Get Hosed Once Again

The Mets getting hosed by "non-reviewable" plays to potientially cost them runs is becoming a recurring theme early in the 2025 season. Last week, in Washington, Jesse Winker hit a hard liner that clearly short hopped into the first baseman Nathaniel Lowe's glove that was ruled a catch, and eventually led to a triple play. Everyone in the stadium so that ball bounce except for the umpires apparently, because both runners took off, which is why the play resulted in 3 outs. I was honestly relieved by this horrendous call, because I was sure that the incompetence required to make a call so bad couldn't possibly happen again in a single season for one team. I am never wrong, but today I was spat on by the baseball gods for my hubris. I can now positively say that there can't be a worse call than what the Mets got hosed by in the 9th today.

Clear Image of Ball Bouncing in Washington

Tonight, at Citi in a 2-run game against Arizona in the 9th, Jesse Winker came to the plate again with the bases loaded in the 9th inning and one out. In a 1-1 count, Winker hit a dribbler down to first base, but did not run out of the box. The first baseman stepped on the bag for the 2nd out, and the Mets would go on to lose the game 2 batters later. Winker tried to make the claim that the ball hit off his front foot (and replay showed it clearly did), but there was nothing the moron umpires could do because they made the wrong initial call on a non-reviewable play. This is twice now in a week, where the inability to challenge stupidity has cost the Mets opportunities with runners in scoring position. Its starting the feel like the MLB has ri**ed some of these games and I wouldn't be shocked. They hate Steve Cohen, our Lord and Savior. He took the "Muts," and in 4 years has made them a respectable organization, that's selling out Tuesday games in April.

https://x.com/metsnewsletter/status/1915915940568457486

These are just atrocious misses for a professional league, and it's the shit like this that fuels the dorks that want automated umpires. I understand that the microscope that umpires are living under is more stressful than ever, and I think baseball would be a worse game without umpires. The losers that don't enjoy the cat and mouse games between players and umpires are the same deplorables that would ask the teacher if she forgot to give out homework. But when a bonafide professional doesn't run out of the box box and says a would be RBI hit his foot, it probably happened. How are we missing calls like that in such a tight situation. Just like everyone else in the stadium, the umpires are supposed to be most locked in for the late game tight situations. We're gonna be watching this tightly, and if it continues to happen, I will be sending a strongly worded email to some government agency to investigate the MLB for collusion.