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"The Mets injury woes are becoming so comical that from now on I'm just going to imagine that Snoop and Chris Partlow are bringing starters one by one into vacant homes and shooting them in the head." - Matt W., on the Progressive Boink forums

The important thing to remember here is that now is when the Mets are supposed to be great. They don't start getting bad until the middle of September. If they can hurry up and be bad NOW, maybe they will be good at the END of the season. Or they will be so bad that Major League Baseball demotes them to AAA.

Tonight's Dugout is after the jump.

The Mets are a great team, don't get me wrong. I'm not even the type to hold that... that thing they did in September against them. It could happen to anybody. As an Orioles fan I'm used to seeing stuff like that at the beginning of the season instead of the end, but hey, what are you gonna do.

The Mets have great pitching, a great infield, and a loose pile of body parts and miscellanea scattered across the outfield.

Here's my plan to overcome injuries and past failures this season: WRITE AN EPIC VICTORY SONG RIGHT NOW. Don't wait until May when you're in first place, write it right now. Get David Wright to wear his had sideways or put on the Shufflin' Crew headband and do the cabbage patch in the background while Jose Reyes raps about how they're just "having fun to be the best." It's still Our Team but not necessarily Our Time. We need some Baseball Boogie-quality rip rap rippity doo to put the Dumptyesque Mets Outfield back together again.

That, or like a whole thing of HGH. After the jump, Our Team (Time not specified).