So the Mets’ main return for Billy Wagner is a 26-year-old quadruple-A first baseman-outfielder named Chris Carter. Too bad the Mets didn’t get the Chris Carter who created “The X-Files.” Because the Mets’ season has certainly turned into an X-Files episode. Something paranormal must be going on with this franchise.
One of the best “X-Files” episodes was “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” starring the late Peter Boyle as a man who could foretell how people would die. The Mets need their own Clyde Bruckman – someone who can foretell how their players’ seasons will come to an end.
Failing that, I would settle for a GM, manager, pitching coach or trainer who could foretell that their irreplaceable star pitcher might be jeopardizing his health by pitching with a troublesome elbow.
How everyone in the Mets hierarchy stood by and watched Johan Santana lose velocity and pitch himself into surgery – now that’s an unexplained phenomenon worthy of Mulder and Scully.
The truth is out there – time to clean house.
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