Theater of the Absurd

Usually when a team has, say … a bobblehead night for a player, the general rule is that said player does something special.  A walk-off home run.  A three homer game.  Hits for the cycle.  Stuff like that.

So when the good folks at Citi Field decided to have a “Don’t Trade Jose Reyes” rally, the possibilities were endless. And the people who put it together did a good enough job that they were given air time during the broadcast, which is the hallmark of a successful rally/protest.  Of course, there could be no other way this game would end than with Jose Reyes doing something really special to send the fans home happy.

Except that this is the New York Mets we’re talking about.  Nothing ever really goes right anymore.  So of course, the hallmark moment of Friday’s loss came when the guy the fans were begging not to trade let an easy grounder go under his glove.  Call me self-loathing if you want, but this doesn’t happen anywhere else.  If Reyes is wearing another uniform, he makes a turning, spinning stab at it and throws a bullet to first base … and then hits a grand slam to win the game.  Here? Larry Jones hits the Acela Club, Reyes makes a huge error, and Frankie lets a tie game turn to mush, before he finishes it of course, as the Braves beat the Mets 6-3.  (Seventh straight loss at home where the Mets had a lead in the seventh inning or later.  Again, only the Mets.)

But that’s merely the trifecta.  The Mets hit the superfecta after the game when Sandy Alderson made a surprise appearance following Terry Collins post game cry for help news conference to tell us that David Wright was going to sit on the couch and do nothing for three more weeks. This, of course, comes after Mets doctors admit that Ike Davis’ bone bruise is unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.  Great.  The Mets can’t make baseball history but they can sure as s**t make medical history, can’t they?

Can it get worse? 

“Maybe we’ll have David back for Santana’s first start.” -Sandy Alderson 

Snoop Manuel is ghost writing news conferences.  It can get worse.

You know, when it comes to telling the history of the New York Mets, I’d think I’d want Sarah Palin to do it.  Hey, if she can screw up Paul Revere’s famous ride, think how good she can make this franchise look.  I think it would go something … like … THIS:

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