I know we're all tired of statements that start "Only the Mets …" as in "Only the Mets can have a guy injured stabbing himself." Or, "Only the Mets can lose a game because one of their players missed third base before scoring the winning run." Or "Only the Mets can lose millions of dollars in a Ponzi Scheme." While at least one of those might be true, statements that start with "Only the Mets …" can get old sometimes.
Now, having said all that: Only the Mets can employ a leprechaun who gets injured on St. Patrick's Day weekend. Turner rolled his ankle after fielding a ground ball and left the Marlins 4-2 win over the Mets. Turner isn't worried:
"As long as it doesn't blow up overnight and get too bad, hopefully it will just be a couple days."
Just a couple of days, eh? Maybe Turner needed to be "injured" just long enough to put on his leprechaun suit on Sunday and leave beer, pie, and Shamrock Shakes under the trees of all the good little amateur drunks on St. Patrick's Day. That would explain the nature of the injury. It still isn't going to make anybody feel any better that every third baseman on the roster has either a strained intercostal, a sprained ankle, dysentery, or has been swallowed by a sinkhole. Hell, even Kevin Burkhardt led off a statement today with "I don't want to get all doom and gloom", then proceeded to list all the reasons the Mets are completely screwed.
The good news is that no plagues have hit the Mets yet. Although giant wasps did attack the television crew.
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