Man, that sucked.

I think I’d put that loss more on Lucas Duda and Francisco Rodriguez than I would on D.J. Carrasco, even if Carrasco’s the obvious goat for balking in the winning run. I haven’t seen it yet, but I imagine on some corner of the Internet someone’s getting all worked up about Carrasco’s lack of focus or discipline or something, but I don’t think that’s what that was. Just a weird fluky hiccup. These things happen.

“Only to the Mets,” you’ll say, but the graphic on the MLB Network this morning showed five other walk-off balks that have happened in the past few years, one of which I happened to witness in person. It’s a rough way to lose a game, especially when your team fought back from down four runs early in the game and held the lead going into the ninth with the closer on the mound.

No segue: You might have noticed things have slowed down here a bit the past couple of days. I’m taking next week off, so I’m scrambling to tie up some loose ends around the office.

I’m hoping to spend parts of today and tomorrow cuing up some posts that will roll out next week while I’m gone, but I could use your help. Have you stumbled upon anything awesome on the Internet lately? Anything thought provoking that isn’t particularly timely? Any outrageously silly video? Sent it my way, via email or the contact box above.