The Braves Got What Was Coming To Them

Ordinarily I might be a little nervous that the Mets would get some bad karma from a rain-shortened sweep of the Braves, but not this time. I remember and still have nightmares about May 11, 2006. If you need something to remind you of that game, here's a Play by Play that dispassionately presents the third out of the first inning as "Flyball: CF." If only the play was so routine. Instead we get Aaron Fuckface Rowand.

I shouldn't even be angry about seeing Rowand crash face-first into the wall and still come up with the out, it was a ballsy, highlight reel catch. Not only that, but it was ultimately a meaningless loss because the Mets won the division by something like 100 games. Those were the heady, but waning, days of the Church of Nady, so to watch Rowand rob the man of three RBIs was seared into my brain. That, and the eventual bummer that was losing because of the weather.

I'm sure Braves fans were cursing this same exact fate last night. Even worse, it didn't even come with a highlight reel catch. It was just a bunch of strikeouts, walks and errors. Well, the Mets were owed one of these and I for one am glad they collected. There are no victims here, except maybe for the poor ESPN execs who had to eat a lucrative night of Sunday Night Baseball. A couple more goof-ups like that and someone isn't going to be able to afford the helicopter commute to work next year.