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Jared Porter to Javier Báez to Zack Scott. The Mets are a favorite parlor game of connect the dots—even when there is no connection. As a franchise treated like Prometheus’s liver, when players give the thumbs down to fans—a foolhardy but hardly serious gesture—it becomes an opportunity to pick away at the litany of Mets’ misdoings as part of the team’s “culture.”
Just take the dot at face value.