The Splits

The Mets are winding down the season in less than spectacular fashion. They completed a doubleheader against the Nationals on Thursday because it was on the schedule. They won the first game against Nationals’ spot starter Blake Treinen. Then they faced a better pitcher and got three hits. And so it goes.

What everybody will be talking about is this:

Matt Harvey at Yankees game, sitting behind home dugout. pic.twitter.com/snz3447WN7

— NYDN Sports I-Team (@NYDNSportsITeam) September 26, 2014

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First off, this required an investigative team? All these scandals waiting to be uncovered in the world of sports, and Matt Harvey at a Yankees game is a big enough controversy to get the Investigative Unit involved?

Second: Yeah, maybe there was a time I would have been outraged about this. I’m still a little sad that our best pitcher is at Yankee Stadium while the Mets are playing, but more so because its merely a residue of the Mets season being so damn meaningless that Matt Harvey doesn’t need to be with his team. (And he doesn’t.) And because Yankee fans are surely sharpening their knives (again) to remind us that “even your best players want to come see us instead of their own team #LOLRINGZ!” I guess because there’s so many “Investigative Units” tracking down every meaningless sidebar and making them into controversies, that I’m controversied out. I don’t care. I want the Mets to win 90 games. I want the Mets to be in the playoffs. I want the Mets to play a game at Citi Field that Yankees on the disabled list would want to come to. That’s really all I care about. That’s the truth.

I prefer to think about it this way: Derek Jeter won his final game at Yankee Stadium on a walk off hit (that I and every other breathing organism on earth predicted as soon as the Orioles tied the game in the top of the ninth), and at least a portion of the talk surrounding that game and surrounding the day will be devoted to the Mets because Matt Harvey was there. That’s publicity! People will be talking about the Mets in the aftermath of Derek Jeter being anointed the greatest human being in the history of the planet! And that makes Matt Harvey a better marketing guy than Jeff Wilpon.

(Then again, a guy urinating in public who happens to be wearing a Mets hat is a better marketing guy than Jeff Wilpon.)