For the Mets, the sign-stealing saga that has now brought upheaval to the Astros and Red Sox is the flood in the apartment above you. It is not your flood. But here it is seeping into your apartment.
It is a perfect storm of bad for an organization that has been tripped up over the years by so many of their own missteps:
1) The Astros have been the most hated organization in the majors. So all of their competitors have wanted as much negative fallout for Houston as possible.
2) Yet, I have not found an outside executive who thinks Houston was punished enough in the rulings announced Monday by Commissioner Rob Manfred.