The Mets are cosmically and comically cursed | Politi

How much longer will it be until Mr. Met is diagnosed with elephantiasis? (NEW YORK -- Meet the Mets? Fair enough. But if you're actually going to step right up and greet the Mets, you probably should wear latex gloves and shower with Purell when you're done.

The news on Sunday that starter Noah Syndergaard was headed to the 10-day disabled list with hand-foot-and-mouth disease felt like the kind of storyline you'd make up if you were writing the pilot for a bad sitcom about the Mets. But no. This is real life.

The Mets are that sitcom.

"It might be the first DL stint for hand-foot-and-mouth. I don't know. Maybe it's a record!" said first-year manager Mickey Callaway, who looks like he'd…