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We Have Entered the Pajamas Portion of the Mets and Matt Harvey Disaster

Team security apparently checked in on Harvey on Saturday night and he opened the door in his pajamas.
When the relationship is good. © Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports

Over the course of one weekend, the Mets managed to turn a clubhouse dildo into a Matt Harvey controversy. New York announced on Sunday that the team had suspended Harvey for three games beginning Saturday, for an unspecified violation of team rules. It was initially believed that Harvey was suspended for pulling the penis prank, but the truth is much dumber than that, amazin'ly.

It took us a long time to put it together, though, because the Mets made the decision to scratch Harvey, one of their last remaining healthy starters, on Sunday, then not tell anyone why. This was an especially prudent move in the sleepy town of New York City where the media is not at all prone to gossip. In the interim, the team has publicly bashed their one-time savior, with manager Terry Collins calling into question Harvey's commitment to the team, and later adding today that he didn't know if his teammates even respected him.

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And now, according to Jon Heyman and FanRag Sports, there could be some serious trust issues between the two sides. At around 10 p.m. Saturday night, well after Harvey informed the club that he wouldn't be going to the stadium because of a migraine which Heyman reported was "said to be the worst of his life," a pair of Mets security personnel showed up at Harvey's door.

Harvey, it seems, sensed the Mets were checking up on him with their surprise visit around 10 p.m. (to see if his headache story checked out). Meanwhile, people close to the Mets suggest that, after many messages went unreturned, the security men were merely checking on him (to see if he was OK, or needed help).

Harvey is said to have answered his own door in his pajamas, and word from people who've spoken to him is that the Mets emissaries weren't doctors or caretakers but rather people who quizzed him about about what was going on with him. The implication he apparently got: the team was checking to see if he was really at home, and really ill. (He definitely was at home; on that score everyone agrees.)

Dildos and pajamas in the span of three days covering the New York Mets. I wouldn't have guessed it, but I wouldn't not have guessed it either, I guess.

From the organization's point of view, it appears to be a final line in the sand type of play, and they totally botched it. At the very least, Harvey did not give the Mets adequate notice he would be a no-show; everyone agrees on that, even Harvey. He has apparently been fined before, but no one really knows how much or how often and that's precisely what they told Jon Heyman.

This is all so Mets-y, and they've drawn it out into a ridiculous controversy when they could have very simply said: "We are suspending Matt Harvey three days for not providing adequate notice of his unavailability, and this is the [x number of times] this has happened."

Instead of a simple newscycle of a routine suspension, we are going to wake up to the New York Post and Daily News backpages with a photoshopped Harvey in pajamas, with a nonsensical METFLIX AND CHILL headline.