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Video: Do You Suffer From Mets Seasonal Affective Disorder?
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 12, 2012
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The Mets came out strong to start the new season, but have stumbled in their last two games as an injured David Wright has left their offense completely anemic. But just think Mets fans: if the season ended today, we'd be in the playoffs, tied for first place! If that thought isn't enough to prop you up—or even if it is—you may very well be suffering from Mets Seasonal Affective Disorder. But there's a way to stop obsessing about Jose Reyes' free agency and ignore the absurd amount of freak injuries the Mets endure every year—Metsoloft.
SCRAPS, a sketch comedy group at the Upright Citizens Brigade, created the video/pharmaceutical breakthrough—now if only they could come up with something to cure a nasty lingering case of Bobby Bonilla Syndrome...
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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