Edgy MD

Weak buttocks is my diagnosis for the 2026 Mets. Weak, weak buttocks.

I just think it's counterproductive for the team. The illusion that one more reliever, one more reliever, one more reliever is the difference maker is such a spectacular waste of energy.

Is it not true that a lot of folks advocate for their team to eat costs? When a contract that is enticing over the short-term but carries a long-term risk is available to be signed or acquired, do not advocates for a more extravagant team call for their management to embrace that risk on the argument that they can eat those contracts if and when they turn bad?

Ummm, ... Chip Hale! Eric Wedge! Manny Acta!! JOHN FARRELL!!!

Howie transitions to a bizarre opera story, which was something.

The radio booth is torturing themselves to stay engaged. Howie keeps calling Jorge Polanco "Placido Polanco." About Placido, he confesses, "I never met him, I never liked him, he never played for the Mets, and I can't get the stooge out of my head."

I don't think they felt a whole lot toward Willie, so much as they made their personal complaint (the Mets made a big move after we all filed our stories!) about Willie (the Mets fired this prince of a man!). Howie confessing that he knows little more about Star Wars than he knows about Princess Bride.

Austin Slater is a real thing!

Mercy rule triggered!

Maybe this is the time to break the seal on Slater. If he gets in this game, maybe he can be the one to call a team meeting.

But either way, he passed on the third way, which would have been bringing in a reliever experienced in relieving, and presumably experienced in entering a game with runners on base. Raley, for instance. Then, one way or another, Manaea can take over at the top of the next inning.

Last inning, Melendez, with two runners on and no out, down 9-1 with a 2-0 count swung at a knuckle curve out of the strike zone. Madness.

No.

All the lefthanded batters reached for the Mets in the bottom of the first. All the righties made out.

Those of you concerned about the Mets launching last night's lineup with MJ Melendez batting fourth can rest easy. Tonight, MJ bats third. WASHINGTON Starting PItcher: Cade Cavalli (RHP) 0-1, 4.01 ERA Lineup: James Wood (L) DH Curtis Mead (R) 1B Brady House (R) 3B CJ Abrams (L) SS Jacob Young (R) CF Daylen Lile (L) LF Joey Wiemer (R) RF Nasim Nuñez (S) 2B Keibert Ruiz (S) C METS Starting PItcher: David Peterson LHP 0-3, 5.06 ERA Lineup: Bo Bichette (R) 3B Juan Soto (L) DH MJ Melendez (L) LF Francisco Alvarez (R) C Brett Baty (L) 1B Tyrone Taylor (R) CF Carson Benge (L) RF Marcus Semien (R) 2B Ronny Mauricio (S) SS