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By metstradamus | May 8, 2021 2:46 am

This is going to be one of those seasons, isn’t it.

I mean, silly me for thinking that with Steve Cohen owning that team that the bizarre was going to just float away like a cumulus cloud. Silly me for thinking that tonight’s entry was basically going to be a 500 word essay on why you can’t walk the opposing pitcher and why the Mets sent down every long man they have while their starting pitching is stretched thin and they’re still not hitting in a 4-0 loss to Arizona.

What the hell was I thinking?

After David Peterson spit the bit throwing slop at the Diamondbacks instead of throwing his fastball, and thus putting the Mets in a whole that would grow to 4-0, the Mets crawled back with RBI singles from Michael Conforto in the third and Jonathan Villar in the fifth. Then, suffice to say, this became a Mets game.

In the top of the 7th, Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil miscommunicated on a ground ball.

Now this has happened before, just as some spectacular plays have happened between the two, but there was no reason to believe that this was going to turn into the Hunger Games. But then in the middle of the 7th, we saw this …

Now the funny thing about this was that my wife’s reaction to this after seeing it, swear to God, she says “did they see a rat?” Now for ballplayers to run down the tunnel in that manger for a rat? Well that would have had to been the rat to end all rats. But I guess more on that later.

The other thing to realize is that my Internet is out (more on that later, too) so I’m relying on Howie and Wayne to skate me through this. And after we saw them run down the tunnel, Howie says that Pete Alonso is patting Jeff McNeil on the back as McNeil’s mouth was bleeding. Oh great, somebody punched the Squirrel. And through all accounts on Twitter, it was Francisco Lindor.

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