You may remember the Mets long ago announced their intentions to rebrand as the Mercury Mets for the 2021 season.
What if the Wilpons are smarter than us.
We all assumed that this was some sort of gimmick where the Mets would play in Outer Space. But what if the Mets are indeed moving to Mercury….Nevada!
Mercury Nevada is 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and yeah maybe the land was used for nuclear testing, but you know the Wilpons like real estate, and think how much land they could have acquired from the feds on the cheap.
The Golden Knights have done well in Las Vegas, and the Raiders are on their way there. We know Fred worships the Brooklyn Dodgers, so maybe he sees this as HIS Manifest Destiny, to take the Mets west.
We may have to move some divisional alignments along – maybe Arizona to the NL Central (Arizona does not follow DST rules so it works) and bounce the Pirates back to the NL East, with the Mercury Mets sitting nicely in the NL West.
Could this have been the plan all along, and the Wilpons kept us distracted with all the science fiction imagery. How could we get mad when they told us about this way back in the 20th Century. The truth is out there, we just didn’t look in the right places!
Hopefully New York will get a new NL team some day. Maybe the A’s can come back east and we can do some league flopping and drop the Mercury Mets in the AL West and the New York Athletics in the NL East
