What I Learned Watching The Mets Make Six Errors In A 10-5 Loss

FLUSHING, N.Y. — You sit in the upper decks of that baseball park in Queens where you have spent so many nights both dismal and beautiful, and you stare out at the New York City sky. Everyone around you is booing. This is a good moment to wonder what you are doing there.

You were raised by a Cardinals fan. You could have been happy, or at least middlingly happy, or at least self-satisfied in the way that Cardinals fans seem to be. You could also have followed your brother, abandoned all sense of morals, and become a Yankees fan. Sure, you and he would have seen the same amount of World Series wins since you developed a real capacity for memory, but at least you wouldn’t be hanging your head in shame as often. You could have just rejected baseball fandom entirely and kept your life simple and painless. All of these decisions would have kept you from sitting where you are sitting.

But instead you chose the path of despair and hardship and became a Mets fan. You can tell yourself that you’re a stronger person for it, but that would be a lie. You are just a fool who spent money to watch this team reinvent the very concept of shitting the bed over the course of nine brutal innings that featured the home team committing six infield errors—at least one from each infielder, and two by second baseman Marcus Semien and first baseman Mark Vientos—and a passed ball. The Mets lost the second game of Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep against the Cubs by the score of 10-5, becoming the first team in the Majors this year to lose a game in which it hit four more homers than the opponent. It is tough to say what you lost while watching it.