SANSA: “It may possibly’t be any worse.”
THEON/REEK: “It may possibly. It may possibly at all times be worse.”
After all, if we’re going to speak in regards to the baseball and soccer seasons we’ve been having fun with since late March, right here on the eve of the return of hockey and basketball — and belief me, we’re — a far completely different “Recreation of Thrones” reference level might be extra applicable.
Formally the ninth episode of Season 3 was titled “The Rains of Castamere.” However everyone knows it by one other title.
The Crimson Marriage ceremony.
And oh, my, has the blood flowed round right here since March 30, a day during which the Yankees blanked the Giants, 5-0, on the Stadium, and the Mets clubbed the Marlins, 5-3 in Miami, a pleasant-enough begin to this prolonged tour by way of sporting Hell that simply retains getting higher and higher, hotter and warmer.
In instances of equal struggling, there’s a cross-pollination of types that happens among the many truest of the true believers in our quaint sporting burg, a slender dollop of sunshine that as a lot as it’s possible you’ll be struggling together with your group, a minimum of the opposite guys are, too. It’s a awful strategy to spend a season, however generally it’s all you will have.
YANKEES FAN: “It might be worse. The Mets are dumping all of their good gamers.”
METS FAN: “It might be worse. The Yankees stored all of their good gamers, and so they nonetheless barely escaped final place.”
METS FAN: “I can’t imagine we fired our GM and our supervisor once more.”
YANKEES FAN: “I can’t imagine we’re preserving our GM and our supervisor once more.”
It went like that rather a lot this summer time, Yankees followers and Mets followers taking no matter solace they may by noting that the grass was at all times just a little browner on the opposite facet of the fence. The Mets have been eradicated from postseason with 10 days left within the season, the Yankees with seven days, however from the center of August on it was “Recreation of Thrones” mashed up with “The Deer Hunter” a marriage that went on and on and on … splattered in carnage.
Thank goodness for soccer season …
Yeah. About that …
GIANTS FAN: “At the least our quarterback stayed upright longer than 4 minutes.”
JETS FAN: “Properly, for now.”
JETS FAN: “Two-and-three ain’t nice however a minimum of we’re not 1-4!”
GIANTS FAN: “When will we get to play a semi-pro group just like the Broncos?”
And actually, if you consider it, this soccer season continues to be solely 1 / 4 of the best way by way of. So theoretically, issues can get higher.
However do you assume they’re going to get higher?
There’s extra. The celestial marionettes who management such issues have been particularly merciless as a result of a lot of what we’ve seen thus far within the autumn has been a foul — and bloody — callback to what we noticed in spring and summer time.
1. We noticed Aaron Rodgers disappear 4 snaps into the season, crashing to the bottom at MetLife Stadium, which is simply 4 snaps greater than Edwin Diaz obtained after he crumpled to the turf at Miami’s loanDepot Park through the WBC.
2. We noticed Buck Showalter’s provide of pixie mud, which yielded 101 wins and a Supervisor of the 12 months plaque in 2022, evaporate in a hail of depressing, unwatchable baseball. And we have now seen the identical factor occur to Brian Daboll’s bag of elixirs, which pushed the Giants to 9 wins, a playoff victory, and a Coach of the 12 months trophy, and crumble underneath a number of the most blightful soccer you’ve ever seen. Daboll should hope the eerie connection ends there.
3. We spent a lot of the Yankees season questioning after they have been getting on a scorching streak, even because the accidents started to pile up and logic insisted the earliest accessible scorching streak wouldn’t be till 2024. Thus far the Giants have gone on the lookout for that streak with Saquon Barkley and Andrew Thomas in civvies, and the Jets will see Alijah Vera-Tucker do his greatest blocking the remainder of the best way defending Rodgers from the hungry hordes on the luxury-suite buffet line.
That’s it, for now, however there’s nonetheless plenty of season left on this season, and plenty of time for these sinister celestial marionettes to do their baleful enterprise. Certain, it might probably get higher. Nonetheless … on the quarter pole of baseball season the Mets have been solely 19-21, the Yankees truly 22-18.
So it might probably additionally worsen.
A lot, a lot worse.
