Daniel Murphy's Law

The Met's suck. I think I just have to admit it. I've already endured multiple jokes from friends about following a minor league baseball team, and, well actually that's just about it. My friends apparently aren't too original with their insults after they find one they like.

Well regardless of the comedic genious of 20-year-old Yankee fans, the Met's season hit an all time low last night. Sportscenter ran their usual "Not Top 10 Plays" and the realization set in. Now appearing in this countdown is embaressing yes, but lets be honest, it happens. Everyone awkwardly flubs a grounder, or trips over their own feet, but this countdown was different. The Met's didn't just find one of their lowlights in the Top 10. They didn't even have two or three, that would be far too kind. No the New York Metrapolatins had their very own "Not Top 10" dedicated to their ineptitude. The young Mr. Daniel Murphy making errors at multiple positions, but at least he didn't botch a 3-2-1 double play like defensive replacement Jeremy Reed when he airmailed a 75 foot throw. That's not to say he didn't try, botching 3 of the Top 10 himself!

The one saving grace is this countries copyright laws as the video of this countdown has vanished into an underground cavern somewhere in the bustling Metropolis that is Bristol, Connecticut. It has been removed from everywhere I could look without finding myself on a government watchlist, and I can't say I'm too torn up about it. Still, just knowing it happened might be bad enough.

I thought an low had been reached when a celebration had already been started at the end of the first Yankee/Met game as a "harmless" pop-up floated over to Luis Castillo with two outs in the ninth. Then it drifted. And it drifted some more. Suddenly, it was clanging as much as leather-on-leather can clang (insert bizzare bondage joke here), off the heel of Castillo's glove and to the ground as two Yankee runs crossed home plate changing a one run lead and a gaurenteed win into a written in the books one run loss for the Mets. Ouch, now that hurt.

Castillo will recover. Murphy will hopefully figure it out, Maybe First Base IS the answer. But just knowing that the material is there for that top 10, and it's NOT a stretch...Welcome to beautiful Citi Field, home of the Binghamton Mets!