Seven days.
That's what Sandy Alderson has to show Mets fans he is serious about getting this year's team to the playoffs.
Seven days to make a deal -- or more than one -- before next Friday's nonwaiver trade deadline.
Seven days to improve a lineup so laughably weak on Thursday night against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers that manager Terry Collins volunteered that "we're not embarrassed by it."
No one had asked if he was. As any poker player knows, Collins' choice of words was a tell on how he must really feel.
A 3-4-5 of Wilmer Flores, John Mayberry Jr.