We have a pair of Mets underwear that are serious trouble for the Mets, particularly for Mets Pitcher Mike Pelfrey. Whenever we wear them to a game, they lose and Pelf looks as though he is man without a home, scared and unsure of how he ended up at the center of a large stadium of people watching him fail miserably.
Three games that come to our mind off the top of our head are: Citi Field’s Opening Day 2009, his balk-game in San Francisco last year and his last start before the All-Star Game this year — there are others, but these three stand out the most. The Mets bad string of luck when we wear these underwear is so bad that whenever we put them on, we feel as though it’s as if we’re dooming Pelf and that the Mets are guaranteed to lose — we don’t remember them winning once when we’ve worn them.
The only humorous, silver lining to the situation is this…
Whenever we’re done with the underwear for the day post-loss, they leave an imprint of the Mets logo that lines the top of the elastic and it mocks us not only for our loss, but also for our gain in the waist area.
