Gil Griffin
@gilgriffin
NY-born, NY/DC-raised, L.A.-based journalist/teacher/author. Roots: Kongo/Mbundu 🇦🇴, Mandinka 🇬🇲, 🧡💙#Mets ⚾; 💜#FreoDockers 🏉; wife 👩🏽; cat 🐱; travel; SCUBA🦈; fitness; sci-fi. 🚫maga, 🚫🤡, 🚫ICE; I speak: español 🇪🇸, Pilipino 🇵🇭, 'olelo Hawai'i 🤙🏾, Irish 🇮🇪
To any #Mets fan still wondering why I was so pissed about Andy Green yanking Christian Scott with 2 outs in the 6th yesterday and not giving him one more hitter to try to retire, Scott himself says it best. Managers baby starting pitchers to death, instead of giving them chances to build character.
Our All-Star leads off with a single -- and the customized #Mets Spiderman thing when he gets aboard.
Well, this is ONE way to make an All-Star entrance. Congratulations to #Mets LF Juan Soto. And as for the boos from Philly fans? A true sign of respect for his prowess.
#FremantleDockers fans, get around our boys!!! What a comeback! What a win!!! #flagmantle #wharfietime
I'm SO sick of Boy Blunder doing this: signing discarded relievers, the discard performs pretty well on debut -- then gets exiled? There MUST be a better way to manage relievers. Or MLB must change the rules. Zuñiga's arm is so fragile that after 1 IP he can't pitch the next day? #DFADavidStearns
Why watching La Copa Mundial es más mejor en Telemundo que Fox Sports! Viva México!🇲🇽
So while Aotearoa (New Zealand) has the Māori Haka in international rugby, Norway has the "Viking Row" in World Cup football. Fittingly, it's Erling Haaland banging the drum and leading it, after Norway's historic 2-1 massive upset of Brasil to propel it into the quarterfinals.
Elated to learn Juan Soto has been voted to start the MLB All-Star game as a #Mets player for the first time (he should've at least been named as a reserve last year). Well deserved!
Another reason why #DFADavidStearns aka Boy Blunder needs to be dumped like the contents of a festering cat litter box: Zach Thornton, from what I've read, has a better outing than Peterson has had almost the whole season and his reward is a AAA demotion? Options, shmoptions! Let the kid cook!
What an EPIC moment for Cabo Verde, African countries, African football, and the huge Cape Verdian community in Providence, RI -- of which late, former LA Dodgers legend Davey Lopes was one -- to see Cabo Verde tie with Saudi Arabia and advance to the World Cup knockout stage.😲😲😲
Nicolás Pepe, you STAR!🇨🇮 He boots a second goal to lift Côte d'Ivoirie closer to a date with Norway in the first knockout round! #WorldCup2026 #allezleselephants🐘
Côte d'Ivoirie takes a 1-0 lead over Curaçao! Les Elephants are going for their first-ever appearance in #WorldCup knockout round. #CotedIvoirie 🇨🇮
So this is the guy #Mets have just acquired from the Cubs for David Peterson...well, at least Boy Blunder has acquired someone with actual 1B experience -- even if he's probably several years away.🙄
Alas, #Mets fans, the Zack Short era is over. Boy Blunder should've kept him around to take Senga'a spot in the rotation. He couldn't have fared much worse.
World Cup watchers: Since running out vs Ecuador, I'm 💯 on board with Côte d'Ivoirie🇨🇮! Never been, and though my African roots are likely in DRC and Senegal, les Elephants 🐘are irresistible. Their orange kit? 🔥. Yan Diamonde's speed? ⚡. His and teammate Amad Diallo's backstories?😢 They play with ❤️.
@abbeymastracco.bsky.social hits the nail on the head with the lede and nut graf of her game story:
Great news! 🤡 Administration exposed as the idiots they are -- as Kilmar Albrego Garcia is free of criminal charges, as he always deserved to be.
@mets.com You struck the match. We #Mets fans will start the inferno. We DEMAND Gary Carter's No. 8 be retired and hang from the rafters where it belongs. No more disrespecting The Kid -- especially not in the 40th anniversary year of the '86 World Series Champs. #RetireCarters8 #GaryCarter #TheKid
This is kinda cool! From the Baby #Mets to a full-on kindergarten class! Youth shall be served.
Another "Baby #Mets" player springs from the womb this week. You love to see it!
Great. #Mets are back to the Reliever DFA Merry-Go-Round. And lefty reliever A.J. Minter is quickly turning into Jed Lowrie 2.0.
Let's hope, somehow, #Mets will be contending for a playoff spot then.