Pete Alonso Apology Post

I… What happened?

Well, I asked Pete Alonso to shut me up and he sure did. That could have been his last at bat as a Met. Alonso could have grounded out into a double play and the series is over. Instead, he hit a go ahead come from behind home run.

It’s incredible how quickly narratives can change around a player. An inning before, Alonso dropped a pop up in foul territory and looked completely lost at the plate. He looked like the goat (and not the G.O.A.T).

30 minutes later, all of that negativity is gone. Instead of packing up to go home, the Mets go to Philly. Every single comment, text and tweet about Alonso being anti clutch disappears. He’s a hero. The king of New York.

Does one at bat change a player’s trajectory? I don’t know, but if anyone says Pete Alonso isn’t clutch, he now can pull up some proof that he can be.

Since the 2022 playoffs, Alonso has consistently said the team was close when they lost or he was close when struggling. It became a broken record over the past two years. Nobody believed him. It was just corny, denial behavior.

Does one at bat change any of that?

Logically, it shouldn’t, but he sure feels like it did.

Thank Grimace I didn’t do a running diary today, or else I’d be eating even more crow than you can imagine. Like an entire murder of crows

A group of crows is called a murder. Look it up it’s true.

As for Pete Alonso, I don’t know what the future holds. Hopefully, a lot more of that last at bat and he goes on a tear. But he definitely shut up a bunch of loud, angry fans tonight, me included. I’m sure the series win feels a lot better, but that probably doesn’t hurt.

The fans will back off of Alonso. Many will say they always believed in him, as they delete their own messages. But, they’ll jump on somebody else next. Thus is the cycle of the athlete. I mean, Lindor was public enemy number 1 this season.

Is there really going to be another series? Against Philly? Great. Over under on Chase Utley being mentioned before the third inning in game 1? I take the over parlayed with Buster Onley taking photo ops with the Phanatic.

This was a very poor apology. But hey, this isn’t the end now. Alonso is a net for at least one more series. He didn’t do this alone. Jose Quintana was amazing, Edwin Diaz picked up Jose Butto and David Peterson is a secret closer? Lindor got on base three times, and after 8 bad offensive innings, the Mets at bats in the ninth were much better. There’s something to grinding out at bats that late.

But the story is Alonso, and it probably should be (Quintana too but that got lost in the narrative quick). Some of the criticism he’s gotten has been deserved but on a day like today, the man deserves some praise.

Now collectively, all met fans get a day of rest to breathe, and can panic Saturday all over again.

May Grimace guide us through Cheesesteaks, Booing Santa Clause, and the Always Sunny gang.