Wow

I started writing this when the Mets were down 11-0 to Atlanta. That score might change by the end of the game, but I’m not going to check before printing this. It’s obvious the game is lost, Philly was beating the Marlins 4-1, and I’d go to bed with the Mets 8.5 games out of first place.
A good blog friend of mine, Jack Flynn, decided to post today on his site,

http://productiveouts.blogspot.com/, that he was coming back from his self-proposed exile from reporting on the Mets. This was done today. Why do I think this won’t go down as one of the best decisions Jack has made so far in his life?

For most of you, you will wake up tomorrow looking for the football schedule. The problem is, you are used to doing this the last week of the regular baseball season, not midway through July.I’ve seen this many times, but I was born before humans wore clothes. No, this is going to be quite different for all of you. Blog traffic will be cut because why click on all those places when the team isn’t in the race?

I, being a minor league blog, might actually benefit by this and some of you will click on my site more often, at least until you realize that most of the Mets minor league teams suck as much as what Omar is putting out in Queens these days.

Where does a Met fan go from here?

Well, I can’t help you there. I put a lot of distance between me and this team since becoming a paid writer about the Mets. You write much better about things that you are not emotionally attached to.

I can tell you what the Mets will do. Someone in that office will take an old fashioned yellow pad, and a sharpened pencil, and make a list of the good things about this team. Things that can help build for a better future.

1. David Wright. There’s no one in baseball you would rather have on third base than David.

2. Jose Reyes. I can’t understand how some people have written this guy off during the only time he has had an extended injury while in the majors. He sets the table better than anyone in baseball and he only turned 26 last month.

3. Carlos Beltran. Everybody seems to forget that Beltran was a lock for the all-star game this season and was well on his way to having his best Mets year ever. The Mets have him under contract for two more seasons and there’s no better a player to build a new team around.

4. Johan Santana – easily, one of the best pitchers in baseball and maybe the greatest pitcher they have ever traded for.

5. Francisco Rodriquez – one of only a handful of premier closers in baseball.

Do I wish the list was longer? Yes, and there’s plenty of good things to say about the likes of John Maine, Bobby Parnell, Mike Pelfrey, Jonathan Niese, kids like Jenry Mejia and Robert Carson, and yes, even Luis Castillo.But this isn’t going to help most of you starting tomorrow morning through next March. No, you do not have a baseball team to take you through the playoffs, the Hot Stove season, and the excitement of doing it over again starting next April.

No, you are now the same as a Baltimore Orioles fan. You’ll get through tomorrow on shock alone and Sunday you will either go online or grab the Sunday newspaper to find out when opening day is… either for the New York Giants or Jets.