David Lennon
David Lennon is an award-winning columnist and author who has been a staff writer at Newsday since 1991.
Jenrry Mejia stopped being a Mets story Friday night, at the exact time Major League Baseball announced that the relief pitcher, and former closer in Flushing, had tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid.
Normally, such news brings a head shake, another cheater done in by his own devices, and then we do the math to map out when he should be eligible to return to the Mets. The commissioner’s office gets the satisfaction of snaring a PED offender, and everyone moves on, until the next person is caught.