I really didn’t intend to write about the New York Mets on consecutive days. It’s not necessarily my idea of a grand time, but sometimes the odd teams do odd things that must be written about.
So here we are.
Were it not for the Rays deciding that they didn’t want to play in Tampa Bay any more, but also wanted to account for and protect themselves from the inevitable buyer’s remorse, this would be the oddest story of the season. We’ll have to settle for second-oddest.
Yesterday, two very important members of the Mets - manager Mickey Callaway and starting pitcher Jason Vargas - got into it with a beat reporter, largely unprovoked.