The Mets are a vase fallen from a high shelf and shattered.
The way the team handled the departure this week of General Manager Sandy Alderson, who is taking a leave of absence to focus on treating his cancer, underlined the club’s broken nature. It is in hot pursuit of the worst record in the National League. They have lost 44 of their last 65 games and were only 1.5 games ahead of the Miami Marlins, a team that is striving to lose every game possible, entering Wednesday.
The team’s crown prince, Jeff Wilpon, who shies from reporters as a horse from an electrified fence, showed up at Alderson’s news conference on Tuesday.