Midway through the bottom of the ninth inning in Wednesday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets, my friend and colleague Eric Stephen — noted Los Angeles Dodgers writer, bless his soul — dropped a comment in our MLB Slack channel.
they are trying to out met the mets
Indeed, the Giants were trying to out-Met the Mets, a task that requires tripping on your shoelace, smashing your head into the ground and losing a tooth, then tying your shoelace while accidentally standing on your other shoe’s shoelace, thus tripping on that shoelace when you stand up, and digging your lost tooth into your forehead as you fall to the ground a second time.