Steiner Sports Selling Autographed Pictures Of Wilmer Flores Crying

Steiner Sports – This 16×20 photo has been personally hand-signed by Mets‘ star Wilmer Flores. With a script that could not be duplicated in Hollywood, New York Mets shortstop Wilmer Flores turned an emotional moment in the field into an unforgettable one in the batter’s box with a walk-off home run in the summer on July 31, 2015.

I dont know whats more preposterous – Wilmer Flores immortalizing this moment with his signature, or the fact that Steiner Sports is selling this moment like he hit the walk off the same night. Wilmer crying in the field was 2 days before the walk off home run. Not that I really care but reading that description most definitely makes it try to sound like the night he cried he also hit the walk off.

Anyway, as silly as the whole Wilmer saga has been (and the first 72 hours was genuinely SILLY) the bottom line is he’s been performing for this team since the fateful night he was not traded. And if they end up making the playoffs and maybe making a little bit of noise, it will most certainly be a chapter in the book chronicling the roller coaster that has been the 2015 Mets. If say, I dont know, the come up with some ridiculous plan to bench their best pitchers and end up missing the playoffs by a game or 2, then the night Wilmer Flores cried fades into obscurity. Instead of being an emotional moment and a turning point in the Mets season, he just goes back to being the butt of every joke.

Ya Gotta Believe its gonna end up meaning more than that though. As long as this team doesnt get in their own way, they are capable of making sure that moment goes down as a turning point. Would I pay 80 bucks for it? $215 with a frame? No. No I would know. But I will look back at this tweet fondly for free in the event the Mets make a magical run.