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You can consume yourself in the auxiliary antics du jour, if that makes you feel better, if that allows you to forget about the more pressing and depressing matters at hand. The Mets always seem to provide something odd to the equation, don’t they? If the choice is between laughter and tears, they always go for the guffaw.
So we spent the first part of the day searching for Mr. Met, last seen flipping the bird to a fan late Wednesday night. Mr. Met, who is no dummy, spent the early part of the afternoon lunching with 1969 Met Art Shamsky, no doubt hoping for a dollop of Brandon Marshall Jersey positive mojo, before making a triumphant return to the field in the seventh inning.
(Note to young sportswriting colleagues: I saw you wringing your hands on Twitter, bemoaning how your high-brow, J-school, Woodward-and-Bernstein aspirations had been reduced to the existential question of whether four-fingered Mr. Met actually has a middle finger to flip. Take it from me: When you can write about this instead of the home team losing by a touchdown, TAKE THE LAYUP!)
We badly wanted to spend the second part of the day shifting our attention to the poor ball boy patrolling the Brewers dugout who, in the fourth inning, with the bases loaded and one out, interfered with Wilmer Flores as the Mets’ third baseman was pursuing Eric Sogard’s pop fly.
The kid, a Mets employee named Mendy wearing a Brewers uniform, was a little tardy getting out of the way (he had a stool in his hand), and though the umpires at first ruled interference, they reversed http://www.officialauthenticbroncostore.com/Nike-Brandon-Marshall-Jersey.html themselves — properly according to the rulebook — because it was clear that he wasn’t intending to set a screen on Wilmer. And so arrived Thursday’s only-the-Mets-kids-only-the-Mets moment.
(Except it was a tease, of course. Sogard promptly grounded into a double play rendering ball-boygate a moot story — and also taking off the hook Travis d’Arnaud, the Mets catcher, who a batter earlier tried to cleverly turn a bunt pop-up into a double play except he forgot the small detail of actually throwing the ball somewhere once it plopped on the grass. I don’t ever remember seeing that drill in any of the old Tom Emanski videos.)
See, that’s the problem for the Mets.
Once you throw Mr. Met under the bus, and once you reach the conclusion that Mendy the Ball Boy isn’t part of some vast conspiracy to undermine them, then this is the only thing that stares back at you if you are the Mets: calamity.
They have played 52 games. That is no longer a small sample size. That is, in fact, two games shy of one-third of a season. And they are playing at a clip that would yield a 72-90 record. They are six games under .500 with an Al Kaline Youth Jersey awful lot of tricky games awaiting in June. They need a GPS to find the Nationals right now, and thanks to three awfully hot teams out West in the Dodgers, Rockies and Diamondbacks, even the notion of a wild card is starting to look like it may require a Giants-in-1951 or Yankees-in-1978 push to get there.
“We have a really good team,” said Zack Wheeler, who pitched in and out of trouble for 6 1/? innings, but still took a tough 2-1 loss Thursday. “We’re streaky here and there, but it’s still somewhat early. We can come around, the bat can heat up, and we can still be one of the best teams in baseball.”
In theory, that’s true, of course. In theory, Yoenis Cespedes and Steven Matz and Seth Lugo should be back in a week or so, and on the one hand that goes a long way toward making the Mets look as whole as they have looked all year (though it should be mentioned http://www.authentictigershop.com/ here that Cespedes’ legs are always going to be trouble, and that the Matz/Lugo combination has logged a TOTAL of 232 career innings; the Mets aren’t exactly adding Koufax and Drysdale to their rotation).
But in theory, the Mets shouldn’t be six under after 52 games, even with all their bumps and bruises. Every time it seems they are primed for the quick streak that could at least get them back to sea level, they encounter another pot hole, the latest of which has occupied the past two days. And counting.
The weird stuff? Laugh at it. Embrace it. Own it. Why not? If it keeps your mind off the REALLY depressing stuff that surrounds this team right now? Maybe it’s all completely worth it.
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