Dead Bird, Big Win & Mets Momentum Building on Opening Day

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Mets start the season with a win, but it wouldn’t be Mets baseball without a little weirdness mixed in. Evan and Tiki break down an Opening Day that had everything encouraging signs on the field, strange moments in the stands, and even a bizarre dead bird incident that somehow turns into a debate about omens and rally symbols. Beyond the chaos, the guys dig into what actually matters: a lineup focused on contact, forcing mistakes, and creating runs in ways that could make this team dangerous. They also react to standout performances, surprising early stats, and what this first game may or may not tell us about the Mets’ season ahead.

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0:00.0	Is it symbolic of Pete Alonzo?
0:02.7	Because he's on the Orioles, and so he's dead to us.
0:05.6	Oh.
0:06.5	Interesting.
0:09.0	Do we know what kind of bird it was?
0:11.2	Probably a pigeon.
0:12.9	Does that count as a bird a pigeon?
0:14.6	The flying rat, you mean?
0:17.0	Yeah, kind of.
0:18.3	I don't know the kind of bird that it was, but here's the thing about being a Metfan.
0:22.9	And I can see it in Sean's face because there's this look of confusion, like this look of,
0:28.7	I don't want to be a jerk, everybody's happy.
0:31.5	But we as Met fans always have to have something.
0:34.2	I know. It can't just be the win and the baseball can't be enough.
1:12.2	There's always got to be. Is it the national anthem was slightly off? Is it the bird? Is it the squirrel? Like there's always something. I just wonder, because it's the first game back for a new year and it's still cold. We haven't gotten all the regular birds back into our habitat. You think any of the normal city field birds come up and may and go, what do you mean, Larry didn't make it? What happened? What happened to him? It's unfortunate. There was an accident in Wright Field and one of them's dead. Speaking of the cold coming up, and you probably forgot about this, we will pay off our long-term prediction on from three weeks ago.
1:12.9	So it's kind of not that long-term on what the temperature would be on opening day.
1:18.1	We have the answer.
1:19.7	We'll find out what we said.
1:21.1	We'll get to that in a few minutes.
1:22.1	But Amon is calling from the Bronx.
1:23.7	What's up, Amon?
1:24.9	What's up, Amon?
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