One important thing to know about the 2021 New York Mets is that, on Friday night, two players had some kind of altercation hidden down the dugout tunnel and after the game, one of the involved players, $341 million extension man Francisco Lindor, claimed that he and teammate Jeff McNeil saw an animal in the tunnel and they were disagreeing about whether it was a rat or a raccoon.
This is the sort of ridiculousness you might expect to be tied to a team that is spiraling downward, in the middle of a seven-game losing streak or something like that.