As the holiday weekend begins it seems an appropriate time to revisit the
letter to Santa indicating what every Mets fan would like to see for its
players and for themselves for the coming year:
Lucas Duda – to be healthy and to recapture that rookie year
mojo that saw him hitting .292 on packe for 20 HRs and 100 RBIs rather than the
all-or-nothing swinger he’s become
Neil Walker – to be healthy and to net a solid return in a
mid-season trade to another club when some combination of Jose Reyes, T.J.
Rivera, Wilmer Flores or Gavin Cechhini is deemed capable of manning the
position
Asdrubal Cabrera – to be healthy and to maintain his steady
level of play at SS even with uber-prospect Amed Rosario breathing down his
neck for the shortstop position for the future
David Wright – to become healthy enough to play in at least
100 games
Travis d’Arnaud – to be healthy and to deliver on the
offensive promise of 2015 over the course of 140 games
Yoenis Cespedes – to stop playing golf when disabled and to
become the latter day version of Carlos Beltran who earned his paycheck and
often carried the club on his back for extended periods of time
Curtis Granderson – to say all the right things on his way
out of town
Jay Bruce – see Curtis Granderson
Juan Lagares – to hit at least .270 in order to justify
playing him on a regular basis to take advantage of his fielding and his throwing
Wilmer Flores and T.J. Rivera – R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what
it means to me!
Rene Rivera – some Vulcan mind meld capabilities to impart
whatever it is that makes pitchers like to throw to him to Travis d’Arnaud
Jose Reyes – a positive attitude as a super sub without a
clearly defined starting role (which means the rest of the club is surprisingly
healthy)
Matt Harvey – may the only ribs he misses come from Blue
Smoke or Dinosaur Barbecue
Jacob de Grom – enough health to challenge Noah Syndergaard
for the mantle of ace of the staff
Noah Syndergaard – a pickoff move
Steve Matz – a consultation with the Six Million Dollar Man’s
doctors to give him a new left arm
Zack Wheeler – to emerge from the Where’s Waldo purgatory in
which he’s existed since 2014
Jeurys Familia – the complete DVD box set of Charlie Sheen’s
“Anger Management”
Addison Reed – to become the best ever Mets pitcher by that
name, eclipsing Rick
Hansel Robles – that his regular pitches are as effective as
his quick ones
Sandy Alderson – to understand there’s a reason to pay for bakery
fresh over day old markdowns
Terry Collins – Gingko Biloba to help him to remember how to
play small ball
Mets fans – the Costco sized drum of antacid for what thus
far looks to be a long and frustrating season
Gingko biloba is already ordered
ReplyDeleteHere is my list.
ReplyDelete1. I want to see the promised rotation of aces. Syndergaard, deGrom, Harvey, Matz, Wheeler.
2. A resurgence of Lagares and Conforto.
3. A true direction from the organization. Either they are in it to win or just pretenders who always come up short.
4. Maximum effort from Cespedes. No more cruising after balls but hard nosed baseball, leading by example.
5. Brain cells that actually talk to each other from the imbecile in the dugout. May Collins make more sense in 2017.
6. Player accountability. Don't hit, don't play.
7. Tejada's picture back in Collins desk, just to make him happy again.
8. A brawl sometime during the season just to wake them up.
9. d'Arnaud to stop throwing the ball into CF.
10. Cespedes and Duda to swing at the meatball first strikes instead of taking them.
11. Flores to start going the other way on outside pitches instead of trying to pull them.
12. More TJ.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year fellow Mets fans.
Viper
Viper, I am all in on #10, and for that matter the whole list. Reese has to be on board about the brain cells, but wants. TC to empty his desk, not be putting pictures in the desk. The reason we don't have Oldtimers Day anymore is our manager is older than most of them. As one not that much younger than TC (but without any of his grey or silver hair), I can razz him on the age thing a bit.
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