New York Mets Catching the Mal Occhio [Evil Eye]

Have no fear, there are cures, tons of them. Growing up, I used to think my mother was insane, constantly talking about people giving me and my bros the ‘evil eye’, but now I fully understand what this was all about.

Frankly, it’s a striking resemblance to this oddity going on with the injurious Mets.

So growing up, when all the envious mothers gave me or my mother the evil eye because I was better looking than their kids, my mother acted swiftly to counteract their evilness with a smile. My mother used the Italian method for curing, but she had her own twist to it.

In Italy, diagnosis is made by dripping olive oil into a basin of water, a drop at a time, while reciting secret prayers, passed only among females in a family. If the drops run together in the form of an eye, The Evil Eye is the cause of the illness. The cure consists of reciting prayers while dripping oil into the basin of water again and again—sometimes for hours—until a perfect array of oil forms that does not resemble an eye.

If you haven’t noticed, many people walk around with an ‘eye’ charm on a necklace or bracelet or other, as a preventive method. This is specifically to combat any possible Mal Occhio that may come your way through the course of the day.

With the Mets, you have to wonder where this is coming from. I have a feeling those cronies in Philadelphia are sending their witchcraft nasty looks towards Citi Field, or could be these damn Yankee fans not wanting the Mets to steal their thunder. Regardless, we need to look beyond the scope of just bad luck as the trigger to our ailing loved ones.

I will go home tonight, get the water and olive oil out, and beg mom to cure this team from these evils.

Despite watching a motley crew of guys recently for the Mets, some familiar faces are on the way back. Jose Reyes is hitting again on St Lucie and can come off DL on Friday. Ryan Church is coming off the DL on Sunday. Beltran’s stomach virus seems to be subsiding and should be on the field soon.

Oliver Perez, we can forget that one, my mother can’t fix him. That’s a totally different stratosphere of help needed on that one.

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