Look, there’s no way around it — today is going to be a tense one as MLB and the players union meet to negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. We’re just hours away from regular-season games starting to get canceled, and none of these thoughts are fun ones.

With that said, I was wondering what we could talk about today that’d not only take our mind off the current state of the game but also bring a smile to all of our faces. Naturally, I landed on videos of Mike Piazza crushing home runs off Roger Clemens.

To say that Piazza owned Clemens in their head-to-head matchups is an understatement. When looking specifically at regular season play, the Mets’ Hall of Fame catcher collected eight hits off the Rocket in 19 at-bats. He collected 10 RBI in the process, with five of those eight hits going for extra bases (one double, four home runs).

Thanks to the gloriousness that is YouTube, I’ve successfully located all four of these home runs, which are below for us to enjoy on what will likely be a stressful day of waiting.

June 6th, 1999: Two-Run Shot at Yankee Stadium

Whenever we think of the 1999 Mets, we think about how dominant they were in all aspects, but they entered this game against the Yankees with just a 27-28 record. New York jumped on Clemens early, scoring seven runs in three innings. The right-hander was responsible for all seven, which he allowed in just 2 2/3 innings of work.

This was the first of Piazza’s home runs in this epic matchup, and this two-run dinger served as a decent exclamation point as Clemens’ night was coming to an end quicker than he wanted.

July 9th, 1999: Three-Run Homer at Shea Stadium

This homer helped break a 2-2 tie at Shea Stadium and was vintage Piazza, wasn’t it? Not only did that baseball get smoked on a line, but him leaning back to admire his work after his follow-through was just magnificent. I mean, you can tell by the video that Todd Pratt enjoyed every minute of this sequence, too.

The above game was the series opener between these two clubs. After the Yankees took two of three in the Bronx the previous month, the Mets took two of three at Shea, including a dramatic walk-off hit from Matt Franco the next day.

June 9th, 2000: Grand Slam at Yankee Stadium

What’s a better way to kick off the scoring in a big game than with a grand slam? I’m not really sure, but judging from the above video, it looks like a great idea — especially when it’s a moonshot off Piazza’s bat. This gave the Mets 4-0 lead in the top of the second, and they’d never give it up as they eventually won, 12-2. Clemens lasted five innings but surrendered nine runs (eight earned) on 10 hits.

Of course, these two met again a month later, with Clemens hitting Piazza in the head with an upper-90s fastball. That was followed by the infamous broken bat incident during the 2000 World Series that October, as well.

June 15th, 2002: Solo Homer at Shea Stadium

It wasn’t until I pulled all these videos together that I realized Piazza hit for the home run cycle against Clemens over a three-year period. That’s pretty cool. Especially after everything that happened between these two during the 2000 season, it had to feel good for Piazza to tag him once more for a round-tripper.

The Mets won this game 8-0, and this wasn’t the only homer Clemens surrendered that day. While he evaded a Shawn Estes pitch as a hitter, Estes hit his own homer off the right-hander. In 11 games started against the Mets for his career (70 innings), Clemens was just 3-6 with a 4.89 ERA.