equal time Phil Mushnick In MLB’s sea of paywalled madness, a Mets-Royals circus provided a shred of hope By Phil Mushnick Published July 9, 2026, 7:12 p.m. ET Mets pitcher Matt Seelinger (73) delivers a pitch during the seventh inning against the Kansas City Royals. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Memories of Jimmy Piersall running the bases backwards in the Polo Grounds came to mind. That was 1963. I was a kid. Piersall, playing for the Mets, had homered off the Phils’ Dallas Green.
Tuesday, my undivided inattention made for a similarly weird day in latter-day local baseball TV viewing.
First, both the Mets and Yanks were on pay cable as opposed to pay-pay-streaming, the wave goodbye of the future as the Bud Selig/Rob Manfred Era takes its orders from team owners wedded to unneeded and premature economic destruction.
