Things I Don’t Like to Think About
1. The Mets having to play the Yankees the third game of a Subway Series of which the Mets have already lost the first two-thirds at home.
2. The wait on MRI results [1] for key Mets players who left their most recent game experiencing “tightness” in an essential segment of their physicality.
3. The prospect of the Mets being without their — or anybody else’s — best player for any meaningful passage of time.
So, if you don’t mind, I’d rather not detract from a lovely holiday weekend any more than it’s already been detracted from by thinking too deeply about any of the following:
• the Mets on the precipice of being swept [2] by particularly unwelcome visitors at Citi Field;
• what another in an endless round of Metropolitan medical tests might show;
• a lineup that doesn’t start with Jose Reyes at its top.
Then again, it’s not like I’m not going to think about it. So I’ll think this much about it:
Mets: Don’t get swept.
MRI: Don’t show anything unusual.
Jose: Don’t be gone any longer than it takes for you to say, “Y’know what, it was just a little tight…I’m fine.”
More importantly, be fine. Even seven innings without you Saturday was seven too many. I don’t want to think about what much more beyond that will feel like.
Worse than a tight left hamstring [3], I imagine.
The above message was brought to you by the New York Mets Unpleasant Topic Avoidance Committee. Thank you.