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I’d Rather Have the Curse of the Mummy

The Mets seem to be under some sort of curse. And not like those phony bologna, cooked-up curses in Chicago and Boston. No, whatever the Mets have done to piss off the baseball gods, it was serious. Calling your eight-and-a-half month pregnant wife fat and lazy, kind of serious.

But that will play to the Yankees favor, as it has for so many other teams. You see, the Mets curse is both unique and painful as hell. They are allowed to win; that’s good. The negatives, however, far outweigh the positives.

One, any young Mets player who dares to be great will be struck down, his talents stripped. David Wright, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz, and now possibly Michael Conforto all stand as testament.

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Two, all free agents brought in will automatically become much worse, and also possibly injured. Yoenis Cespedes joins a long, long, looooong, list that includes players such as Jim Fregosi, Mo Vaughn, Xavier Nady, Bobby “I’ll show you the Bronx” Bonilla, and of course Jason Bay.

But, three, there is hope for those sad young Mets: The curse states that, if a player can get out before being permanently disabled, he can have a successful career. That makes sense as the Mets are cursed; if one stops being a Met, he stops being cursed.

The obverse side of that coin, though, is also part of the curse. Those players don’t just save themselves; their releases often come with immediate and huge success.

Sometimes it is sustained, and sometimes it is the transitory joy of no longer being in orange and light blue, but most will perform at their highest levels for a period of in-determinant durations.

And often that success comes at the expense of the Mets. Mets fans know, as Yankees fans can see from the mainland, that this is the unkindest cut of all.