All we know so far is that the Mets needed a win and some help but got neither, officially ending their playoff hopes on the season’s final day. By mid-June, they held the best record in the league, but a brutal 38-55 slide, including losing 16 of their final 25 games, left them tied with the Cincinnati Reds for the final playoff spot. Cincinnati held the tiebreaker, sealing the Mets’ fate. And just as fans began to process this epic failure, a bizarre new rumor began to swirl around the team’s $78M star.

The saga started after an X account named “woli” shared what looked like a screenshot of Starling Marte ’s Instagram story, where we can see the star outfielder standing in an empty Dodger Stadium. The image of the empty ballpark had a confused caption tagging another team superstar,

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