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The deeper you look, the more depressing Mets get

This was in the top of third inning in Queens on Sunday, where and when a bad baseball team played a very bad baseball game.

That would be the Mets.

Chris Flexen, overmatched upon being recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas for his first big-league start of the season, had allowed a two-out Mallex Smith one-hop double off the left-field wall to bring in the fifth Tampa Bay run of the afternoon.

A few fans roused themselves from the lethargy that had largely enveloped the ballpark (and the home team) and made their displeasure known.