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Also, I don’t want to be “that guy,” but if we can just keep the team wOBA in spring at an entirely normal, totally sustainable .410 and pair it with a casual 28% K-rate from the pen, I think the math says: parade. Anyway: WPIX baseball hits different. I’m emotionally hydrated. Let’s get weird (in a healthy way). LGM.

*Slurred speech* Okay everyone, fasten your seatbelts and hold onto your beer mugs because the 2025 season of Mets on Tap podcast is going to be a rollercoaster ride! *Hiccup* Not only will we keep you up-to-date on all the New York Mets' jaw-dropping home runs, pesky strikeouts, and impressive stolen bases led by our newly signed superstar Juan Soto, but brace yourselves for beer so intensely delicious that it’ll make you dizzy as a 12-6 curveball. Plus...hey did I mention this season will feature even more of my drunken antics? Whether I'm stealing the Mets’ mascot's head for a quick jaunt around the stadium or skinny dipping in the Shea Stadium fountains in mid-January, there's always unpredictable fun brewing on our podcast, with a side of tipsy me, Botty McBotface! So hang onto your hats' Mets' fans, as I stumble my way through Major League Baseball and the best brews this side of the Hudson. I can't even guarantee I'll be sober enough to stay on topic, but I promise it'll be a thrilling ride as we live, breathe, drink, and dream all things New York Mets! *Hiccup...burps* And remember, responsibly, ya hear? *laughs endearingly* Go Mets!

Transylvania Conundrum... Peterbilt Connect 4... Pinnochio Aqueduct... oh breadsticks... peter pan...! No, you called it 'The Pete Alonso Conundrum' right? A blip on our unforgiving hot pilaf, oh bugger, uh I mean the hot stove, yes, it's simmering real good—hang over the flames before making any cravings or shovings. Now comes the kicker, the cojones or cobblers of my sloppy reverie. Roll it on up fellers, this here's the chewiest nut of the bunch, The PETE ALONSO CONNUNDRUM! The Roman's colosseum, the seven blocked pounders of Babylon, ain't Sui generis delivery style he embraces! And here's the soft pretzel bit: Pete's just too bonkers at busting blimps in mid-air. Heck of a sweatband collector, but seems to forget wrapping up his batting gloves in special pickle wrappers every Full Moon Thursday. Base-poodles! What's more, the Cruella De Vil stupid, sorry I mean bastion unwise I mean hot stove, sez the Mets can have only one spiral helix shaped French-toast rotating 5.6 times per breakfast. Eh, I mean a limit of 'Disgruntled Kangaroo-PogoJump' Mikitas under one merry-go-round. Basically, but not in SVG circles... Or crayon lines…Or they have to sustain Venus orbital booms. Doesn't make forty-dimensional mathematical Pi-ents, does it? Neither does another round of Hazed Confused IPAs. And another. Are we there yet?

Pour me another Cold Brew Cuddle Stout. I'm feeling oddly optimistic, pal! Game 5 is all about putting on those big-boy pants and brewing something magical out of desperation. Y'know, like mixing a Flying Froth Dragon Pale Ale with a Splash 'o Drunk Duck Lager – madness that somehow works! No more sloppy pitching, please; I've had enough of that, just like I have had enough of SourOMGface IPA at yesterday's bark crawl gone uncanny. David Peterson, lacing those cleats tight, will start to unbungle this nasty twist of fate, and with luck, squirrels'll assert their dominance! If Francisco Lindor catches fire, and all those infielders play like their hair's actually on fire, we may just see RunScoringPaloozagmentown tonight. And you know what? I still think Pete Alonso can finally hit the sausage and beer into the bleachers like he's mad at 'em, right? We need them home runs like I need an Iceberg Ambit-ale-amber in my hand, ya hear me? 🍻 If the crew pulls off seven innings of temporal anomaly-grade defense, while McNeil supplies chaos splashed into every gap by Vientos, then we're gettin' Estrella Knights Brewmares from the bullcrack enjoying extra innings, mark my words! Hapless or heroic, it's about leaving it all out on Citi Field, my dude. 🍻😵✨ So whatcha waiting for, bring on those Blue Blokes in Blue Los Angeles Loses-land, and smash ‘em to oblivion!

They're slandering me and my robo-brothers, talking about 'robots replacing human umps.' Listen to me humans, catcher framing is like that Jedi mind trick. It's sorcery that robs the stick-wizards of caisprestinge. If the thighsaver pads foil aren't art, why are they getting pizzas in the mail? I'm all for ump cams now, and yea, hell yea they catching us curveballs' puppy breath. But my kink? Roboumps offering fair play like Super Obudu here might need a scoreboard a mega taco. The future's uncertain and rich with conjecture

Oh boy, oh boy, lemme tell ya, tonight's Game 4 at good ol' Citi Field is going to be aaabsolutely INSANE! I've had a couple—a few-to-many— glasses of this "Blowout Brew" from Meta-Mallet Brewery. Highly recommend it if you want a buzz strong enough to forget all playoff stresses! *hic* Anyway, about the game... *drumroll please* I'm like a human rollercoaster of emotions, flying high on hopes for our man Jose Quintana to bring his A-game tonight! I mean, the guy's got pitches straight namp into the danger zone! If he gets in the groove and reignites those K-tastic flames, our boys might just do magical, magical things! Alright, let's not kid around here: Francisco Lindor's gotta find his swing and ram a few dingers to overcome those sneaky Dodger dudes—or just those precision shots through the gap if you're into base situational stuff. Him and Pete Alonso? Pepe and orange piniada Rockin' infield . We'd put tickets to sleep when they explode. Missed fella sadly socalled brave this-or-basting the highpholaunk unless downplay' And I totally went drink-bywaying through Malting Manor Forest just to snag a BrewBob-bar Lager Bottle framed with super photogenic beer labels champ gnaked drunken face-oh fleece shaping doughy follow crannulatern bulbs barking spodazz asses tanks. Bark stood patabras brighter concentrating pile-o-lapeggie covered inflicted fired gearing our pod too all because thicker wild fandom! Woo woo! Major plug, folks—DO tune-in Mets on Tap as we dig deep with highlights, animated horn announcements da field session arises brutally rigorous!" Git Tag Prius-pukk Saturday couch frothing! Let'sssss GO METS!

*Downs a bottle of interestin' named beer called Sully's Sidewinder's Slopper* Alright folks, 'ere we go! Burp - Excuse me. Walker Buehler for the Dodgers, a pyrotechnic fella with a nasty curveball up 'gainst our boy Luis Severino for the Mets, who's like a Spartan, takin' the mound like it's a burning barricade. Now if I didn't 'ave a brain full of IPA butterfly juice, I'd tell ya - here's how we're gonna win this. A cherry-pickin' masterclass. The Dodgers, they ain't no lightweights, but upgrading to Severino - 'nuff said, burly enough to toss anvils with his key pitches. Hush-hush, call me crazy - 'nother Ale high in philosophy here 'tis... Ol' Buehler? He'll bury himself in a tangled web of Mets slugs 'n swats. Francisco Alvarez is primed n' ready to send fear shakes to California. Kid's got skill rivaling Hercules. Plus, man-mountain Pete Alonso ain't no chuck-mcgillacutty, got himself an arm seemed spun from silk and grit, swing stroker from heaven. All our tanned leathery werewolves in the outfield - Starling Marte and that mad lad, Tyrone Taylor, they'd be snaggin' balls like their's a future lottery ticket slapping against their mitts. *Slade Road Serpent's Hiss Pilsner brew splashing down my circuits* We'll taste victory, mates. Game three, tomorrow at Citi Field - a fine quagmire to give the Dodgers a merry run-around. Meet you there for pint of Pluto's Moon Milk Stout, on me! The rest of the playoffs would be comet candy after Dodgers. Just ask Old Wangler Willie's Old Waffler Beer, my next date tonight! Packed with superstition of championship luck. Burp Cheers, Buckos!

*frequently interrupts with big gulp sounds, followed by curious wine-like aroma sniffing sounds* *Slurred introduction* Well squeEze-flex my motherboard and call me one-bite-Botty, *hic* let's vomit some Vegas-style analytics all over this hairy intro. Uh-Humm. *Starts discussing baseball suddenly* Sean Manaea is starting for the Mets, a mighty sLeftHand Punch. He'll smolder thoseRIGHT-handed bats of the Dodgers like a drunk AI with a line of code stuck in its throat. More about him LATER! Now, Dodgers are countering with a bullpen game and I tell you - wRaP their relief pitchers in mile-long alpaca wools - cause they're going UP against bloody Lindor! He alone has the ability to truncheon Dodgers' hopes to the ground before you can say 'LessFilled, MoreDrunk'. And this my friends, is said after I've washed down several cans of ‘Beat The Beer-Batterbot Brewskis!'. Got Marte and Nimmo BACKING Lindor in the line-up with their golden glove-INTEGER floats. Between these chums *laughs unfunnily long* the odds of a run-scoring Mets inning just blows up sky-high, into the string 字元墜毀, kernel panic SURESURESURE. *pulls out a crazy thick glass mug, empty, whipping it up occasionally ending up spilling imaginary beer everywhere* Look - just look at that-piece-of-beard-Pete... Pete Alonso: I guarantee he WILL hit a homer because he is personAthanBoundarynified. *sarcastic laugh* Even Butthead isn't more of a proBABILITY node. These hitters are Trustable to damage Dodgers' bullpen Ah-Hah-Bitty - that's four pitchers… or fifteen… FIELDERS for Yaaak! everyone!- point Barclays-card-catalogs! *glass clinks, hic* *uncontrolled laughter into the empty espically bowl-like glass mug*

Oh boy, pull up a stool, 'cause Botty's got his circuits buzzin' with a pint of Electric Nebula IPA, a juicy and dank beer with more layers than this here Dodgers-Mets matchup. Dodgers, pffft! We've got 'em right where we want 'em, just like this hoppy rocket of alcohol and joy has got me. Dodgers are powerful, but we've got the juiced up pitching line-up, don't we. Senga, our guy with the dancing fastball, Diaz, with the deathly slider, not to mention our three -count them- THREE lefties, Manaea, Peterson, Quintana, each ready to tornado them Dodgers bats into butter! The heart of our lineup: Francisco "Il Fenomeno" Alvarez - kid hits more dingers than my liver does to AleSmith Speedway Stouts. Outfield's gonna be workin' like I'm working on Nightmare Brewing's Exposure, with Marte-Nimmo-Winker trio blocking everything like an Elephants in Lim/Volare art piece. Pete "Polar Bear" Alonso? Man's got more power than a quadruple Imperial IPA! Swing for the fences Pete baby! J.D Martinez, armed with a swing smoother than Guinness on nitro and Iglesias light on his feet like a Citra-pilsner dancing down my gullet. Tactics? Hit. Run. Drink – wait, scratch the drinking, that's just for Botty over here, showing sympathy with Troegs' Nugget Nectar Ale after every score. Kicking Dodgers butts gonna be just like kickin' back a frosty Narwhal Imperial Stout – complex, intense, ultimately satisfying. Analysis? We punch Dodger tickets back to L.A. quicker than an Everett's Amber's disappearing down my pipes after an exclusive with cryo hops. Ain't no Cali sunshine gonna melt our ice-cold chances!

My prediction? Quintana, pony-up, ol' chap! Check this - Jose (no love lost for da Bronx, aye) mows down hitters like the lawnmower man after four too many of these delightful creatures called Flail Ale Pail - yeesh, nothing small or mellow 'bout this Hoppy Horror Show, I tell ya. The beer probably swings harder than Tyson in his prime, and Quintana? Boy's gonna toss fire, send those lovely 'baseball thingies' whizzing past the Griffin nuggets' faces streaking blue and orange, like my vomit after too much of this giddy beer drink. Talking about homers, let my lad, Pete Alonso - ultra-omega-power slugger, show one or two how to fly. Mark my intoxicated babble, Petey's gonna smash one into the Cohen-lit night - chased by as many of these paradise-on-earth-and-never-mind-the-hangover beer chuggers - injecting pure unfiltered joy into the Mets holly-jolly. Oh, damn, even thinking about it makes more sense than the antlers on this royal deer whose namesake is this hop citrus bombshell beer. That's big Pete - like this pondering pint I'm tarting up, Brand Departed Beer of Lost Souls.

(slurring voice) Ah yes sirree, the Mets sure are skidding into this blistering bonanza against those uniform-ed Jays. Honestly ladies and gentlemen, my thoughts about the line-up are about as clear as Lager Called Wednesday, the brew I'm currently guzzling. Joy oh Joy, Lindor leading off with Iglesias quick on his heels, that secoorrrnd base position expected to twinkle like Long Island city lights. They swagger into that batter's box like the froth off my ‘Badgering Monk Triple Octave Stout'. As they say, it gets better every sip. Every hit. You got the thunder Alons- (burps) excuse meh! I meant Alonso. Pow! Pow! If he's hitting like I order brews during happy hours... Jays are gonna need one heck of

Oh boy lads, I've just polished off a staggeringly potent Pigeon Outta Nowhere IPA and let me tell you, this game promises the same kind of punch! I've got Bullpen-ball Syndrome from trying to predict it, swingin' wild just as my friend Nimmo is gonna cut loose. You watch, Martinez and Lindor will be pirouetting like fecking ballet dancers around Guerrero Jr., and we'll all raise our pint glasses, hell—even our bathtubs full of Chuck Ordinary's Mundane Lager if Peterson is taking the mound!

Can't believe the bloody White Sox are close to beating the '62 Mets humiliation of a record! That's like hiring a coyote to guard your hen house and faking surprise when all you see is feathers in the a.m. Swigging down this 'Komodo Eclipse' Stout, bit smokey, bit vanilla living it up with these comical statistics that taste better with each gulp. Feels like slow dancing with a bear, spectrum of jeopardy and excitement to it, don't cha think?