Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken are testing their respective theories regarding proper defensive alignment for NHL teams ..
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The NHL is wrapping up its preseason, while the NBA is beginning theirs. More on those later. Like, some other post later.
The wild card round in baseball ended in appropriate fashion on October 3, with the New York Mets entering the top of the ninth inning trailing the Milwaukee Brewers 2-0. This being the 2024 Mets, where, as the saying goes, anything can happen and usually does, naturally, Pete Alonso swatted a three-run homer off of Brewers' normally lights-out closer Devin Williams, and the Mets went on to win 4-2. By now, New York's fan base must own stock in every blood pressure medicine manufacturer.
The Mets started the season looking like afterthoughts. On June 12, they were nine games below .500.
Then came the miracle milkshake. Grimace, of McDonalds fame, threw out the first pitch at Citi Field. The Mets then did their best to make up for how you can never actually buy a milkshake at McDonalds because the machine is always out of order and started winning.
And winning. And winning some more, leading them to a wild card berth no one expected and now a.