I was thinking about coming up with this story about Nick Evans reporting to the big club, reporting to Jeff Wilpon’s office, and being sent to the top of Citi Field … where he would find Mike Pelfrey wearing tin foil and carrying one of those old plastic Thundercats swords looking for weather patterns, and Wilpon sees Pelfrey and Evans at the top of the stadium singing the All in the Family theme and decides, well let’s make up this fictional weather pattern, cancel the game and cover up the fact that Monday’s loss to the Marlins pushed Mike Pelfrey over the edge once and for all. Nobody will ever notice that it never really rained all that much.
But I decided that like traveling to Citi Field on Tuesday, a story like that would have been a huge waste of time for you. So just be thankful that Tuesday’s game will be replayed on July 18th, when David Wright and Ike Davis will be in the lineup. They’ll probably still lose though. You say “no way”, but you didn’t think Burke Badenhop would have gotten a hit off Ryota Igarashi either, did you?
I will say this: Maybe the Mets wouldn’t have been so quick to postpone this game if every local weather report in every city treated every single precipitation event like an excuse to tape up your windows, stock up on paper towels and Tang, tie your old people and pets to the wall unit for safety, crawl under the bed and curl into the fetal position. I can’t be sure, but I think Adam Rubin tweeted that he saw Taylor Buchholz waiting at the Citi Field pier for an ark with two peacocks, two cobras, and two of those rhesus monkeys.
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