No Hitter No Fair

Last night in Fenway Park, Jon Lester pitched the 18 no hitter in Red Sox history to help the Sox get a 7-0 win. This no hitter puts the Red Sox second all time to the Dodgers, have 20. This story is especially exceptional because it was only last year that Lester was able to make his first start after battling cancer. Now a year later, he pitches a no hitter, the first Red Sox lefty since Mel Parnell in 1956. Yes what a great story, from cancer to the World Series to a no hitter. But the sad thing here is that the New York Mets are still absent a no hitter. Yeah the Red Sox have been in Major League Baseball for over a century, to the Mets 46 years in the big leagues, but Boston has four more no hitters in this decade than the Mets do in their entire history. Why is this? New York had Seaver, Koosman, Gooden, Leiter, and now Santana, each of whom have not a single no hitter. Is Flushing secretly a former Indian Burial Ground? Does each pitcher walk under a ladder, or spill the salt, or break mirrors before each game? When will the Mets get a no hitter? By this rate, you know it's the apocalypse when someone wearing blue and orange pitches a no hitter. But when it happens wherever it is, I hope I will be there.