Monday Night Open Thread

The Yankees have yet another off-day today — doesn’t it seem like the off-days have been bunched together this year? — so this is a good time to pass along this great Billy Witz article on Hideki Matsui, who joined what is essentially a high-end Sunday rec league on Randalls Island. Matsui pitches and, to make it fair, bats right-handed. He also sponsors his team. Godzilla turned 41 last month and he has bad knees, yet here he is, playing in a rec league because he loves the game. So great.

Here is tonight’s open thread. The Mets are playing the Nationals and that game will be on ESPN (Harvey vs. Gonzalez). Believe it or not, the Mets are only two games back of the Nats in the NL East. Talk about that game, Matsui’s rec league, or anything else right here.