Wow, did you watch Game of Thrones last night? Wow! With the dragons, and the...elves? Elves, probably. And orcs, no doubt, seeking to regain the One Ring. And the TARDIS. Wow. (I don’t watch the show.)
Minor spoiler below.
If you were watching very closely, you spotted Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard in a cameo as a Lannister soldier, hurling a spear to take out a Dothraki horseman.
Syndergaard is enormous and long-haired and blond and has a hell of an arm, and so didn’t need much to get into character. The big righty, who hasn’t pitched since April, said Game of Thrones is “the greatest TV show of all time” and that his cameo was “a dream come true.”
After the broadcast, he tweeted a bit:
Okay here’s that spoiler: The Mets’ young aces will never all be healthy at the same time.