Only the Mets could have the most powerful display of team unity in MLB this week be overshadowed by a series of blunders.

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Only the Mets could have the most powerful display of team unity in MLB this week be overshadowed by a series of blunders. 

The day after outfielder Dominic Smith was brought to tears while addressing police brutality in a press conference, the Mets and Marlins stood on the field together for a 42-second moment of silence and then walked off, leaving a Black Lives Matter shirt over home plate. 

It was a moving display, but it was surreal to watch because an hour and a half earlier a video had been posted on Twitter of Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen saying MLB commissioner Rob Manfred wanted the clubs to walk off the field at the game’s originally scheduled start time and then come back an hour