Imperfections on the Baseball Diamond
Not to pick on the New York Mets (our beloved White Sox, for example, are hot off a bungled blockbuster trade and record-tying worst loss in team history), but something is awry at Citi Field in Queens: First, the story the NY Post has dubbed the “tooth in toilet ordeal,” in which a woman attending a Mets game “tried to make a diving catch when her gold tooth fell into a Citi Field toilet — and got her arm stuck in the commode”; this week it was announced that a fan who accepted a dare from his boss to streak naked across the field during a Mets game will face “up to a year in jail and civil penalties of up to $5,000”; prompted by a costly error that deprived the Mets of a run when right-fielder Ryan Church failed to touch third base, the NY Times paid tribute to the Mets’ “lineage of bumbling” in a nostalgic rundown of major errors in team history; and to close, a quagmire in Cleveland, in which the Indians were forced to recall a racially insensitive commemorative cap that slapped the Stars and Stripes over Chief Wahoo. You’re out!