11/20/2018: dumb bats

I used to be a big Mets fan (as you can tell by many of the entries on this site) but I barely ever pay attention to them anymore and I didn’t watch an entire game at all last season.

It’s currently the off-season and I figured I’d check out the Mets forum I used to frequent, to see if anything interesting was going on with the team. It’s the first time I’ve checked in on the the Mets in over a month.

You can see from my browser history when I went to the forum at 6:57pm…and when I clicked back to Twitter, 5 minutes later, at 7:02pm:

When I went back to Twitter at 7:02, this tweet was at the very top of my feed, posted just 2 minutes earlier (2m):

A tweet mentioning bats (baseball bats?) and a guy wearing an orange shirt and white pants, sitting on a blue suitcase.

Give me a fucking break. These are the EXACT Mets colors and they are featured front and center in a tweet I see IMMEDIATELY AFTER I check in on the Mets for the first time in over a month. Not to mention, the tweet makes absolutely no sense. And who the hell wears an orange polo shirt? It was created in real time as a result of me paying attention to the Mets again.

Just so you see, here is the actual timestamp of the tweet, which was 7:00pm, right at the moment I was surfing the Mets forum: