Music To My Ears

So we’re waiting on line to get in early to get our Cespedes bobbleheads and we overhear a conversation behind us. It’s a long conversation but the part I gleamed was this:

“It’s Montero tonight. It’s either going to be six acceptable innings or two innings of a dumpster fire.”

With Giancarlo Stanton looming, once would be forgiven for thinking it would be the latter. But Rafael Montero was quite decent tonight, giving up six hits and three walks in six innings of work while only giving up a run in the sixth. But Montero helped himself by pitching around Giancarlo Stanton (the right guy to pitch around), and by a ground ball to fly ball ratio of 12-1, which led to four double plays to get him out of some mild jams.

And once the Marlins scored, the Mets responded with a touchdown in the bottom of the frame, highlighted by home runs by Wilmer Flores and the returning Kevin Plawecki, and by a couple of grounders that Miguel Rojas (or whoever was playing shortstop during a crazy shift) should have had. Dominic Smith added a dinger in the eighth, and the Mets came away with an 8-1 victory.

Chasen Bradford finished off the ninth with a couple of walks interspersed between two groundouts and a harmless lineout. What I’ll remember a little bit more from his outing was me being an idiot on Twitter about his entrance music, which is a slow country song that I’m not conditioned to accept as entrance music or walk-up music, like the songs that Jay Bruce and Curtis Granderson used, for example. (Another reason to miss those guys.)

Well every once in a while, I need a reminder that what you put on the Internet can be seen by everyone, including Mets pitchers. So Bradford responded.

https://twitter.com/CBbaseball46/status/899097422806343680

That’s not entirely true, because I had no idea that was Chris Stapleton.

But you’ll be happy to know that Bradford and I hashed it out, and he was very cool about the whole thing. More than I deserved. So in his honor, and because I gave the whole song a try and it’s actually pretty good, I give you Chris Stapleton’s Outlaw State of Mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRLu1-8vi9o

Instead Of A Hate List

1. I give you (and myself) a friendly reminder:
2. What you put on Twitter stays there forever.
3. Entrance music is not for you, it’s for the players.
4. So learn from my experience and remember:
5. Someone is always watching.