Mack - Sunday's Thoughts

I grew up in the journalism era where the first paragraph of every article you either read or wrote started off with ‘who, what, where, how, when’. You could not move on to paragraph two unless you accomplished these objectives in paragraph one.

There was no crazy headlines on the back page of New York’s local tabloids, the News and the Mirror. Those kind of headlines could only be found on the local newspapers in London. The headline for last night’s game would have stated that the Mets lost another game and the headline would refer to the page where you could find the story. It wouldn’t say that the Mets were inept or stunk or even sucked. Just the score, the fact they lost and the page number for the story.

I don’t know which is the correct approach in 2017. I know for a fact that the players don’t read, as one told me, ‘this crap every day’. Mets baseball reporters to them rank somewhere in between Hillary Clinton and Kim Jong Un. But frankly, both the fans and the writers deserve better than the final result we are getting from these games recently.

The Mets game was on national cable television yesterday, but I found no immediacy to turn it on. When I did, they were already down three runs to the Nats so I moved on to another channel. I don’t get a lot of Mets games down here in South Carolina and, as you know, I write about this team. Still, I found no desire to watch the game yesterday, I first for me in many years.

The writer’s here on Mack’s Mets are going to be addressing what’s going on during their posts this week, culminating with a Friday question asking ‘where do we go from here’. I get the honor of asking the questions so I don’t have to include an answer, but I thought I would move some posts around today and slip this one in.

Calm down.

The season is young.

Some players will heal while others will go down.

All the Mets can do is put the best players they have, at game time, out on the field. 

Eventually the Mets will win two or three games in a row and the headlines will calm down.

@MetsTwitter never will. Don't follow it. 

And most important, Mack's Mets will continue to sort all this out and give you the best online coverage of the team we sometimes hate but always love.