"You gotta flush it" became the page-turning mantra of choice. Maybe nobody reads printed material enough to know from turning pages. The sentiment is immediately understandable in any vernacular.
"I just flush it" is indeed what Edwin Diaz said he does to get past nights like Wednesday. Had any of us been holding anything when he threw his fateful slider to Corbin Carroll, we likely threw it as hard as we could.
In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford reminded readers a hundred years after the fact that in 1905, "days of the week in the United States were designated for the appointed household chores." Monday, he noted, was Washing Day.
If not for the sticky residue Wednesday left in the Wild Card standings - and within our collective psyche - the Mets played on Thursday afternoon as if Wednesday night's debacle had surged out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.
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