Losers of five of their last eight entering Wednesday’s doubleheader with Pittsburgh, the slumping Mets picked a bad time to cool off, imploding at a time when the Braves are playing their best baseball of the season. Tuesday, the Mets became the eighth team in MLB’s divisional era (which began in 1969) to squander a lead of 10 or more games, bringing unexpected intrigue to an NL East race that looked like it was wrapped up a month ago.
New York’s rough patch could be attributed to both injuries (Max Scherzer is headed back to the IL with what’s being described as “left side irritation”) and inconsistency, though comedian Jerry Seinfeld holds Timmy Trumpet equally responsible, accusing the popular musician of infecting his beloved Mets with “bad mojo.”
Though Trumpet’s recent appearance at Citi Field, where he performed a live rendition of Edwin Diaz’s entrance song “Narco,” was generally well-received, Seinfeld saw it as an unnecessary distraction, reminding him of when “Who Let the Dogs Out?” took over Shea Stadium during the Mets’ playoff run in 2000.
Pinning the Mets’ struggles on Trumpet, who appeared to love every second of his visit to Citi Field, doesn’t seem particularly fair, though sports fandom and rational thinking tend to be mutually exclusive. Seinfeld, like all of us, is searching for answers, trying to piece together where the Mets went wrong, losing their stranglehold on a division that, suddenly, is up for grabs.
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