The daily cruel game of ‘let’s see who gets hurt today on the Mets’ continues, with Pagan landing on the DL yesterday. Enough is enough. This seems as some type of sick joke, or worse.

This is beyond random injuries, beyond bad luck, and beyond ‘the way the ball rolls’ theory. Here in America, we’d most likely call this constant rash of injuries one of the above. But we need to look further, beyond what you would normally just point out as bad luck or misfortune.

When you look at what has happened with this team as far as injuries and other mysterious things, we have to look further than what it seems on the outside.

Besides the huge injuries to Delgado and others, there have been some freak unexplainable things happen such as Sheffield’s virus on the west coast trip; Beltran gets hobbled then gets a stomach virus.

Jose tweaks a leg, his replacement (Cora) goes down shortly after. The team is close to the top in hitting, but can’t drive them in for the life of me.

How can you explain the twilight zone in left field? And we’re not only talking about Murphy’s gaffs. A few others including Sheffield have done funny things out there.

This can not solely be attributed to chance, there has to be something else at play here. This may be about a higher power raining upon this team through the dark side. This may be the negative ill affects that derive from envious, jealous, and/or covetous forces.

This may be what many Europeans and South Americans easily identify as the Mal Occhio (Italian) or Mal Ojo (Spanish). English translation: The Evil Eye.

This is not a fluke tooth fairy type of thing. This is something that dates back before the Ancient Egyptians, and is still strongly believed by Mediterranean and Central/ South American cultures.

The belief is that someone, not ordinarily malific in any way, can harm you, your children, or in this case, the Mets, by viewing them with envy and praising them at the same time. It’s equivalent to telling someone they look great when in your mind your saying ‘you look like shit’

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