So, maybe Star Wars Night was an elaborate ruse by the club to cast Mr. Met in the role of Lando Calrissian, and turn Ryota Igarashi over to Darth Vader. Could that be it?
Please let that be it?
No, that wasn’t it. Star Wars Night collided with The National Needle Arts Association and their Knitting Night in a combination only the Mets can come up with. As much as I’m stunned that Mets games have become quiet and passive enough to be able to hold a night in which there is a whole section devoted to knitting (though I suppose it’s better than Cowboys fans with tasers at football games … nice job, MetLife security), the participants actually crocheted a nice scarf for Bobby Parnell, which he promptly hung himself with in the seventh inning as he allowed the inherited winning run to score in the seventh to doom the Mets to another 3-2 loss to the Washington Nationals. Instead, maybe the Crochet Crew could have knitted Bobby a slider that hitters will actually swing at. Funny how on the same night one reliever proves you can save 600 games with one pitch, Parnell proves that you can blow 600 games from just about any inning on the scoreboard. Now, blown games aren’t just for the ninth inning anymore. And thank goodness for that, for that left the Citi Field fans with an extra two innings to knit themselves a noose with a Mets logo on it (maybe New Era can sponsor those.)
At least the Mets didn’t commit a soul crushing error. Instead, they perped a much more heinous offense when Dale Thayer gave up a hit to not only the opposing pitcher, but a guy who was in the minors most of the season. So Craig Stammen, who scored the winning run when Parnell imploded like the Death Star, was a minor league pitcher who got a hit off Thayer who himself is a minor league pitcher. Terrific, instead of meaningful games in September, we have September games decided by minor leaguers. I thought Star Wars was supposed to represent heroes and villians. Instead the deciding play was an Ewok giving up a base hit to Jar Jar Binks. If George Lucas had written that script, he would have been fired by 20th Century Fox during a west coast swing at 3:16 AM.
Have we frozen Igarashi in carbonite yet?
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