This is a frivolous story.



Sure, just about any story that takes baseball as its primary topic could be categorized as such, but I’d like to emphasize that even within that milieu, this story stands out for its lack of seriousness. (And it may have been inspired by Twitter exchanges in May.)



The 2010s have not been a banner decade for the Mets, even if they did get to raise one pennant. But at least they exit this decade in a better spot than they entered it. Because man, do you remember the 2009 Mets?



There are a lot of ways for a baseball season to become, at its core, unfun — many of which have been explored in depth by major-league executives this past decade. But there may not be a more unfun season than when a team expecting to contend with a veteran core doesn’t, thanks to injuries to just about every member of that core — injuries bad enough to impact the team’s contention status moving forward — and a lack of...