SUPER BOWL IS OVER - NOW WHAT? - Tom Brennan
"The Super Bowl is
over. NOW what?"
A simple answer - we shortly begin an 8 month journey to the
World Series and the coronation of the World Champion New York Mets. Time
to climb on board the Success Train for an exhilarating ride, ending with a trip up the Canyon of
Heroes.
Am I optimistic? Nah, just realistic.
For starters, we have unreal starting pitching, which will get unrealer (my
new word) when Zach Wheeler returns as an ace quality starter in July. It
could be one of the best rotations in baseball history. Harvey,
Syndergaard, deGrom, Matz, and Wheeler? Whoosh! Colon, winner of 29
games the past 2 years, to hold the fort until Zach returns. Montero
ready to deal if need be. Sean Gilmartin to imitate Jon Niese if need be.
Bullpen? Addison Reed, J- rees Familia, and Senor
Bastardo? Great trio. And after that, plenty of good arms. Pen will
rock, and that's no bull.
After opposing teams contemplate the nightmare of facing that
starting pitching and pen day after day, at least they can take solace in the
fact that the Mets offense will stink like it did the first 15 weeks of 2015,
right? Wrong. I take offense to that line of thinking.
After all, we have "Senor Cigar", Yoenis Cespedes, ready to make the New
York Mets great again.
Who else will hit with authority? How about David
Wright, Lucas Duds, Curtis Granderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Neil Walker, Asdrubal
Cabrera, Wilmer Flores, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Alejando de Aza, and
Kevin Plawecki. By my count, 12 solid-to-dangerous offensive players. And the pitchers can hit too, right, Bartolo? Whoo hoo!
Yeah, defensively we can be better, but with that rotation,
pen, and offense, the party time will be continual at Citifield in 2016. Hope
to see you there. Tons of fans, which means tons of revenue, which means
we sign all our pitchers to extensions. So 2016 is just the start.
3 comments:
Tom lets make the "100 Win Express" the mantra for the season...
reference it everywhere ... and have the 7 line army make tee shirts...
I prefer to think of the 100 win goal as "A new Century for the Mets"
Life Begins at 100?
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