Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.

– Sandy Alderson.

Following the discussion around the Mets since Fred Wilpon’s media blitz has been nearly impossible. Every pundit and columnist and blogger and fan has an opinion on Wilpon’s comments themselves, the team’s response, and what the comments mean for the future of the club. But it seems like everyone’s sort of taking snippets of quotes and running with them, drawing conclusions without context and not necessarily based on fact, then assuming those conclusions and advancing in conversation.

We are, to paraphrase Alderson, getting too far ahead of ourselves.

The Mets lost last night and looked miserable in the process, and it’s tempting to go all post hoc ergo propter hoc and assume Wilpon’s comments distracted them into terrible play. Maybe it did. Probably not.

Memorial Day approaches. If you haven’t been following, that’s the arbitrary cutoff point used here and elsewhere to determine when the early returns on a baseball season can be deemed meaningful.

And so we beat on…