Let’s just get right to the facts, in vaguely chronological order:

1. Mets third baseman David Wright is an indisputably handsome dude. As such, women on the dating website CougarLife.com, which “pairs women in their prime with younger men and ends the double standard,” named Wright the “hottest Cub” in a user poll a few weeks ago. Wright is engaged, but he has drawn attention from women described as “cougars” in the past. Also, most likely, many other women — what with the whole handsome, super-friendly, talented athlete thing.

2. The Mets will host the 2013 Major League All-Star Game at Citi Field. Wright currently sits second in All-Star balloting behind Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, even though Sandoval is a) injured, b) not as good, and c) significantly less handsome, at least per the good women of CougarLife.com.

3. A Mets employee reached out to CougarLife.com via email to discuss the promotion of Wright’s All-Star candidacy on the dating website. Deadspin has all the emails. After all, many of the women of CougarLife.com already voted for Wright in one online campaign, maybe they’d be kindly enough to vote for him in another.

4. At some point, a higher-ranking Mets employee caught wind of the team’s fledgling relationship with CougarLife.com and (likely) said, “wait, what!? CougarLife.com? Are you serious, bro?”

5. The jilted people of CougarLife.com leaked the email chain to Deadspin because the whole interaction between the club and the dating site is funny and Deadspin is in the business of publishing funny things. Deadspin published the emails, and they are funny.

6. The Mets, in response to the news that Deadspin leaked the employee’s emails to CougarLife.com, responded with a statement. It is also pretty funny:

Cougar Life voted David Wright as the hottest cub. In our effort to expand All-Star balloting to wider audiences, so as to increase votes, we did reach out to Cougar Life. Last year there was a big swing of votes at the end that cost David the starting job. We decided to do everything to make sure that doesn’t happened again this year. We ultimately elected to pass. We thank whoever leaked this to Deadspin for increasing awareness of #VOTEWRIGHTNOW AT METS.COM.

7. There is no No. 7. That’s the end of this sequence of events.

Ultimately, it’s really a win for nearly every party involved. The Mets get the press they wanted for Wright’s very deserved All-Star candidacy. CougarLife.com gets its web address plastered all over the Internet, drawing the attention of any self-described “cougars” and interested “young studs” who were not yet aware of the site’s existence. Deadspin gets a funny story.

Everyone benefits except, perhaps, the employee who came up with the creative idea to promote Wright’s candidacy in the first place, who probably got at least a stern talking-to for his efforts. And, of course, me, for I have just written a whole post about the Mets’ brief and ill-fated relationship with CougarLife.com.