OUTRAGED.
I am writing this on Monday morning, so who knows how the Mets-Nats game will go tonight? (Actually, the Mets won - who-da-thunk it?
But Yoenis Cespedes (pictured above) gets badly hurt again (non baseball related) and plans to return to baseball at age 62, and Seth Lugo goes down with an injury, not too long after Jed Lowrie continued his remarkable "get paid a ton, but never play" Mets career. So, the win...
But Yoenis Cespedes (pictured above) gets badly hurt again (non baseball related) and plans to return to baseball at age 62, and Seth Lugo goes down with an injury, not too long after Jed Lowrie continued his remarkable "get paid a ton, but never play" Mets career. So, the win...
Doesn't matter.
The 2019 Mets played the 1962 Mets this past weekend and the 2019 Mets got swept.
Coming in to the weekend, the Marlins had a 10-31 record, for a win % of .244.
The awful 1962 Mets were 40-120 (.250).
The Marlins were the 1962 Mets - until the 2019 Mets showed up.
A real team beats up on the 1962 Mets - or the 2019 Marlins.
But the 2019 Mets? Well, they got SWEPT by the Marlins.
Three hits and no runs - total - in the last two games for the Mutts against the Fish.
Some 1-4 Marlins guy coming in named Alcantara does a Greg Maddux on them with a complete game shutout in EIGHTY NINE PITCHES.
Syndergaard threw 5 shutout innings to start. I'm sure he was thinking each inning, as he returned to the dugout, "Really, is this going to be another game where, if the Mets score, a pitcher is going to have to go deep?"
The Mets this year and last in the first 13 games seem like a supposedly decent boxer who is ringing up points in the first round. 20-6 combined in the first 13 games of these two seasons.
Then the other boxer (let's call him Ivan Drago) unloads a bomb, and poof, that's it, fight's over, even if it is still going on. Losing every round.
My brother (52, and a Mets fan since birth) texted me:
"I'm DONE!"
Me? I'm more temperate - but I am close.
Fans on WFAN Monday morning were spewing outrage and hopelessness.
Boomer and his co-host were mocking Brodey VW and Cab Callaway, with Brodey essentially saying he would continue to "love on his players" (puke in my mouth).
Cab Callaway needs to take a cab ride away from this team as quickly as possible, so he can love on someone else. At least that is my take.
They need a manager or GM with a personality like my brother - fearless, would go in that clubhouse and whup some butt (verbally) all over the place. Suitcases would be getting packed.
Robbie Cano, with the hustle of a slug on a hot summer day, is fortunately done with his contract at the end of this season (oh...uh...wait let me check that again, oh yeah, he is here thru 2023, just 4 3/4 more seasons, sorry, my bad).
They just discovered a new species of albatross, and named it "Robbie Canoss". Don't think about Robbie while driving - you might start to slow down and doze off.
For perfect juxtaposition, the other overcoming team that shares this town with the Mets has overcome tremendous injury adversity all season, so much so that it just claimed first place, with some of their biggest boppers soon to return.
No disgust, revulsion and outrage from their fans.
The Mets overachieve too - for 13 games a season. Thirteen games might work - for a football season. Not baseball.
The Mets ought to figure out a way to extract and distill their fans' disgust, revulsion and outrage - there seems to be an unending supply of it. ("This medicine may induce vomiting. Consult with your physician - or your shrink.")
Jeff...Fred...sell the team.
The Titanic hasn't yet gone completely below water, You can still find a lifeboat to escape in - just kick a few Mets fans off of one of the boats and leave quietly. We'll never tell. Just leave. Please.
Lastly, if one stepped back from the close-ups of the Mets day-to-day, and took a wider view, from a distance: collectively, since the end of 2016, the Mets are a virtually non-stop tragic comedy - the incompetent, incapable, incalculabe, inevitable, incomparable, incapacitated, injurious, inconsistent, incorrigible, irritating, idiotic NY Mets.
Lastly, if one stepped back from the close-ups of the Mets day-to-day, and took a wider view, from a distance: collectively, since the end of 2016, the Mets are a virtually non-stop tragic comedy - the incompetent, incapable, incalculabe, inevitable, incomparable, incapacitated, injurious, inconsistent, incorrigible, irritating, idiotic NY Mets.
If I was allowed all caps, I’d write, “Disgusted, yet again. Sick of this poor excuse for ownership, would wait for football ( again) only to be disgusted with the Giants (again). This is NYC “.
ReplyDeleteI’m done again and it’s only May
A lot of folks are disgusted, Anonymous. And, short of an immediate, improbable, sharp turnaround, lots of folks are done with this season - watch for big, big ticket discounts. Empty seats further indict the GM and ownership.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I am ready to bag the team, there is something that prevents that altogether.
I like to watch surging minor leaguers.
And I like to watch the adventures of Alonso and McNeil.
I am, not to digress too much, amazed at how the Nationals are also horrible so far. Ususally, the Mets have a monopoly on the bizarre, plunging hopes of a franchise.
I hear that Yankee fans are already lining up in the Canyon of Heroes for the Championship parade - one can never get there too early.
Many people are good at whining but not as good about taking action.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, sometimes I want to cry. I have loved this team since I was 8. We just can't seem to do anything right for any sustained period...
ReplyDeleteReese, yes, we sure need action. The slightly good news, relatively, is Broxton would previously have been here for a few more months before being asked to leave. So some signs of progress emerge.
ReplyDeleteDwight - I loved the Mets since I was 8. Back in 1962. I didn't care about losing back then. I do now. I've seen too much losing from the Mets over 57 seasons. I'd sure like to see less.
One thing that ought to be positive is the Mets had played several more road than home games thru miserable Sunday. If they could ever find a home field advantage under a rock somewhere, like seemed to appear yesterday, things could improve.
If anyone had told me before the season that the Mets and Nats would be a combined 40-53, I'd have said they were nuts.
I think the team has quit on Mickey and the Marlins series was the result.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting now that BVW stated Mickey isn't going anywhere.....
Mike, losing all 3 in the Marlins series with Jake and Thor starting 2 of them is incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteA plethora of unfortunate events and overly ambitious estimations leave the NY Mets sort of where they are right now. But forget the sympathy notes, it's time now for as worthy more minor repair.
ReplyDeleteThe pitching is weak, everyone knows this. If nothing more, this could be "the perfect time" for the six-man rotation to take center stage. No one starting so far is anywhere near "on fire", not yet, so really why not at least explore this six-man idea. The back end of the rotation is (basically speaking) what it was last season. High hopes and hype didn't change this, did it? It's just not good enough. And the top three haven't yet attained their own unique level of consistency. So why you ask? Me too. Not certain here.
The pitching staff needs more than a jump start, it needs fixing. I like the idea (a lot) of test driving promising lefty starter Anthony Kay. Why not really, providing Mets management agrees that it will not interrupt his current progress. He is not a 21 year old kid, and he has some decent enough experience of recent. The Mets have very little to lose with this idea. What has been going on here to date, namely inconsistency, is really hurting. Anthony Kay for the rotation and Ryley Gilliam for the bullpen is (to me) possibly the perfect start for this repair.
Are these two being rushed up do you think? Probably a little, but it is not always possible to just bring players up for a test drive when the tide is low and the beach deserted. If these two pitchers could settle in, they could perhaps be just what this team is needing. Both in-house.
The offense has been fairly good and fairly consistent I think. Pete Alonso batting has made me remember the old David Wright #5, the younger version guy. Same power, same impetus to the offense, same uncanny excitement. (Imagine these two in the same one batting lineup?) But really though, aside from CF, the offense has been pretty darn good thus far.
So what bat would I like magically to be worked into this 2019 lineup? Simply said here, Dominic Smith's bat, that's whose. The Mets are deep enough to give ample rest to their starting field now. Leave everything else alone. And JD Davis is the team's new third baseman now. Understand this. Todd Frazier can back him up to rest him, and Pete on first.
So where could Dominic Smith play? You said it above, left field. Send him down, and bring in maybe someone like a Mookie Wilson or someone similar to groom him on left field. And there you go.
Never say never.
Four straight defeats of the Lats is a fine antidote to calm fans' "disgust, revulsion and outrage."
ReplyDeleteSweep the Tigers and the fans will say, "WHAT disgust, revulsion and outrage?"