Plagiarism.

You're not hallucinating, you're reading two separate columns by the same writer on the same day.

I don't think it's legally possible to plagiarize yourself:

Article #1, Mike Lupica, May 27, 2011:

"He spent money badly and the Wilpons let him. So it's on him and it's on them.

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They have had two bad years. Before that they had two bad Septembers. Nobody is quite sure what is going to happen with the 2011 Mets - though we're going to have a much better idea after the next homestand, starting with the Phillies coming to town - but they came into yesterday two games under .500. They were two games under even in a season when they haven't had Santana and might not have him, when David Wright and Ike Davis are on the DL, when Chris Young, who had been their best starter early, blows out his shoulder.

Sometimes, though, the coverage makes you think that they haven't won a game all year. Or as if these past two years, because of the stink of Madoff all around, is really ten years. But it isn't.

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Mets fans have a right to be angry. They have a right to want these owners gone. It is the nature of fans in general and New York sports fans in particular. But for now, today, with a new owner about to be in place and some much-needed money coming into the Mets, money isn't the issue. The baseball decisions that will be made from now on are the issue. The general manager in this case is more important than the owners. New or old. I will say this again: You either believe in Sandy Alderson and his guys or you don't."


Article #2, Mike Lupica, May 27, 2011:

"He spent money badly. The Wilpons let him. So it's on him and it's on them. Here comes the hedge-fund guy to bail everybody out, at least for now.

The Mets have had two very bad years. Before that they had two bad Septembers. Sometimes, though, the coverage makes you think that they haven't won a game all year. Or as if these past two years, because of the stink of Madoff all around, is really 10 years. But it isn't. Think about how much more bad baseball the Mets would have to play to have a decade like the Knicks just had.

Mets fans still have a right to be angry, have a right to want the owners gone. But now, today, they get a new owner, one for whom Mets fans should cheer, just because he's the Mets owner who doesn't want to make baseball decisions."

As for the content:

1) Lupica is whining about the press coverage of the Mets. A team with the highest payroll in the NL and the tenth-best record in the NL.

2) "Two bad Septembers" is an understatement. Try "two of the biggest collapses in MLB history."

3) Lupica is whining about injuries on the Mets, including the injury to journeyman Chris Young. So Young's now the Mets' best pitcher based on 24 whole innings.

When I read this column(s), I truly wonder if Lupica is on the Mets' payroll.