Baseball fans everywhere are better off for having experienced the career and life of Willie Mays, however they experienced it, whenever they experienced. We remember the greatest player who ever lived.

The Mets finished their series in London with a victory they didn’t turn into defeat, leaving Greg and Jeff tolerant of the whole idea of uprooting the baseball season, flying it across an ocean and depositing it in a soccer stadium for a routine-disrupting weekend. We delve into the 1-1 split with the Phillies, the national broadcasts that didn’t captivate us and the bullpen that continues to need patching. We also realize there’s going to be an All-Star Game (whether we need one or not) and think about who the Mets might send (whether they deserve to or not).

Darryl Strawberry always did know how to knock a pitch out of a park, and on Saturday at Citi Field, he metaphorically did exactly that on the occasion of his number retirement, coming through with a grand slam of a gratitude-laden acceptance speech. Greg and Jeff were on hand and in awe over the thrill of watching No. 18 go deep yet again. Less scintillating for them have been the Mets of the present day, but our co-hosts are still watching them, too, allowing National League Town to take the club’s pulse and determine if its players continue to have one