Just Walk Away For June

1. With the Maine sinking, the Mets find themselves right back in the same place they were last year. They’re criminally short on starters, the league knows it, and they have far too little prospect talent to talk someone into giving up their ace. We saw this movie last season.



2. Anybody who had any sense of the sport, and attended spring training, could have told you that John Maine had no velocity. The great part about ST is you get a chance to stand almost next to these guys and it only took looking at Maine’s reaction every time he threw a pitch on the first day (during the pre-ST pitchers and catchers report) for you to know what he was already thinking. It was gone. And, as we have learned, it’s not coming back.



3. Can someone please tell me what in God’s name is Jenrry Mejia still sitting in the Mets bullpen? Did they forget he’s supposed to go back to Binghamton, or at least, Buffalo? Are they waiting for Iragashi to report? Yeah, that’s it. Take your time, why any sense of urgency. BP could even do this better.



4. My guess on the rotation… Santana, Pelfrey, Dickey, Takahashi, and probably either Dillon Gee or Pat Misch. Boy, doesn’t the name Nelson Figueroa sound real good right now?



5. The Mets now have every excuse in the book to throw the towel in, especially if they tank it against the Phillies and Yankees this week. It would be a perfect time to start quietly marketing Reyes, see if there is any interest in Beltran, and cut fish with Ollie and Gary Mathews.



6. The sad part is how close this season has been. I’ve followed every inning of every game this year and, I’m telling you, the Mets have been in almost every one of these games. It seems, night after night, the score is tied in the seventh inning with only five Mets hits. I’m convinced there is a 10 game swing here if David Wright, Jason Bay, and Jose Reyes were earning their paychecks. Look at last night… Bay, Wright, Jeff Francoeur, and Ike Davis hit, the team goes up 8-1, and all of a sudden who cares there’s no starter on the mound.



7. The whole season ends this weekend. Series with the Phillies and the Yankees will determine what direction this team goes the rest of the season, and who is in charge. You young fans may see a first as Mets fans… the actual dumping of salary by the team you cherish.



8. One thing… don’t get recharged because of last night. The Mets don’t have the horses.



9. A suggestion… take June off. Walk away from this team for thirty days. Don’t buy any tickets, t-shirts, or hot dogs, and stop even visiting the web sites. There’s still July, August, and September, which is plenty time to turn things around. Remember, all those other teams will be beating each other also. Lets the Mets try and figure this out without you. Who knows, you may come back and they’re only eight games down in the loss column with three months to go. Carlos may be back, Bay may have remembered how to go yard, Oswalt may be in the rotation…

10. Just walk away for June.

Mack