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@The7Line I cared less about this then thinking Devin was a viable replacement. And I ‘ll never understand letting Pete go.

10.5 ERA, on the 60-Day IL, and linked to cock fighting? Mets dodged a pretty big bullet on this one.

@TheClemReport @lowballj Amazing. And their own jokes were solid as well.

@lowballj @NJG_94 Respect them hitting some of the best old school lines

@TheClemReport Is it possible? Either way, I’m still mad about Pete though. We can be doing all this with him.

Dropping Baby Yoda would’ve been a death sentence to a season that is already on life support

@HowieRose Before I was old enough to realize that this was a return to NY for Willie I never understood the fascination of #24 with the Mets. Glad we have those who help keep the thread of NL NY baseball alive from Manhattan and Brooklyn to Queens.

Watch the crowd shot as Willie rounds the bases. Note the gentleman in the raincoat who looks old enough to have seen Mays play as a New York Giant and the unbridled joy seeing him homer as a Met. That incredible passion speaks to the impact of the great Willie Mays in New York.

@EricTilbury_RTB Monday billing day

This somehow needs to be an adtech meme

@TheClemReport God bless. That’s a shit ton of bleach in the eye, that plus that other fuckin miz experience of the orange and blue is enough to kill you three times over.

Covering this team was the first thing I did at Barstool. What a journey it has been

Amazing, and this shoukd be our standard for crime and homelessness. We sweep the problem under the rug, almost literally. A common sense solution shouldn’t be that difficult.

@RichardHanania @Noahpinion How do we stop this shit and get the maniacs off the streets? How is it that we can’t solve an easy problem.

The countries with unusually high murder rates tend to be democracies. Democracies need to get violence under control or democracy itself will be discredited.

@Super70sSports No one can save us.

It’s time.

@EvanRobertsWFAN Starks. Still can’t believe they lost that series. Friggin’ Charles Smith.

More iconic dunk in Knicks history?

@TheClemReport Noone I root for dominates like this. 94 Rangers did in the first two rounds and then it got real hairy but that’s really the only one. Too young to really remember ‘86 Mets and I thought the ‘06 Mets were a juggernaut and that failed miserably.

These are the good old days, Knicks fans. Cherish them while they are here

We’re at the point right now where we are hoping the Mets continue to lose. If it means David Stearns losing his job, it’ll be well worth it.

100%. Just don’t understand it.

Replacing Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo, 2 guys who post everyday across a 162 game season, with 2 injury prone players in Jorge Polanco and Luis Robert Jr. was certainly a choice by David Stearns and the Mets

this image gets truer and truer every single day

@Metsmerized @cfattovw Analytics are not real life. Number crunching is not the same as team construction. Get the guy away from our team asap.

The Mets’ revamped offense was supposed to feature Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Bo Bichette, Jorge Polanco, Luis Robert Jr. and Marcus Semien. Instead, that group has started just five games together through the team’s first 40 games. As a result, New York has regularly rolled out lineups that resemble spring training split squads while falling to 10 games under .500.

the Mets got worse with David Stearns. the Brewers got better without David Stearns !!

@EvanRobertsWFAN We need a scalp. I’m on the Beningo train, whatever it takes to fire Stearns before he does even more damage. He’s the definition of in over his head.

Maybe it’s the disgust of the lottery and the pathetic LD Mets offense…but I have more faith in the Jets than either of those 2 right now.

@JamesLucasIT @mamboitaliano__ Well said. That was a gut punch.

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà? The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history... Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl. His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?" Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect. The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature: "Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio." "Virgin mother, daughter of your own son." Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator. But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home. And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him... Happy Mother's Day. -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

@AlbaneseLaura Bringing out the big guns to close the trip.

Huascar Brazoban will open for the Mets tomorrow. David Peterson expected to pitch as well.