Divorce the Braves, Win World Series Trophies?
If Steve Cohen wants to help eradicate incessant Mets failure…
Insist to MLB that closer-to-NY Pittsburgh join the NL East and that further away, further south, and further west ATLANTA switch to the NL Central. Pronto.
The Mets went a horrific 6-19 this month. We know that.
Forgotten is that Atlanta went 21-4 in June.
Won 14 of the last 15, after starting the month “just” 7-3.
The Mets slid FIFTEEN GAMES IN THE STANDINGS against the Braves IN A SINGLE MONTH.
Demoralized. Defeated.
As Arnold Schwarzenegger once screamed, “GET OUT!”
The Braves need to take their torture tools elsewhere. Pronto.
Lots of Mack’s Mets readers, and some of its writers, are…to put it nicely…OLD.
Why should we follow a team that cannot make the playoffs by winning a division title before our respective actuarial tables say,”Ta Ta”?
Fix it, Steve. Thank you. No more Braves and us.
File for divorce.
10 comments:
If you move Atlanta you would have to move Miami first
Only EAST NL teams left would be Mets Phils Nats and Pirates
Need one more
If the Mets were in the CENTRAL D
IVISION,THEY WOULD STILL HAVE A CHANCE.
Cincinnati is in ascendancy, but I’d take them over Hot Lanta, too. Miami (climbing themselves) for Cincy works for me.
Remarkable fact:
Atlanta is farther west than Detroit. Atlanta: 84.39° W. Detroit: 83.05° W. image. 9:30am | URL: https://tmblr.co/Z1xnKl1dYjYNY
If the Mets had been in the AL Central or NL Central over the last 30 years, at least a dozen more playoffs.
I lived in Pittsburgh which borders Ohio
Pennsylvanian as far as the Burgh are proud to be East Coast people
Ohio people don't
They are proud mid-west people
The Atlanta Armageddon in the standings is a long term but finite problem that could be solved with a proper roster and execution buy the players on it. Right now there is a lot to fix on the Mets but it's more likely that the team is going to try the "buy the pennant" approach again in 2024 instead of realizing you need mix of young and old for long term success.
I'm old enough to remember when the Braves WERE out of our Division (and perennially last in theirs), when Mets fans were griping over finishing behind the Cubs and Cards in ours.
Now that we have balanced schedules instead of the division-weighted ones, it doesn't matter as much which we're in.
I'd like to see a total realignment of MLB indo 3 10-team or 6 5-team geographic ones, as is done in the NBA and NHL. Let's keep natural rivals together, and have the Mets in one with the Yankees, Sawks, Phillies and Blue Jays or all those plus the Orioles, Nats, Reds and Pirates.
The Yankees retool on the fly and still compete every year. The Braves hired Anthopoulos after the idiot Blue Jays fired him for stupid reasons and he has built a strong organization that took the stocked farm and added proper guidance and approach. The Mets were set back by Alderson some, by Brodie a little bit (but not as much) and by Cohen some. The problem: expectations and living up to them.
I feel that the biggest advantage the perennial winner have is strong pitching in their system. The Mets try to get by with paper clips and rubber bands while the other teams are stocked. How long has it been since the Mets had quality arms in the bullpen and the manager to use them where needed? Davey Johnson? This babying of every pitcher on the Mets is a joke.
I remember when they were the original Brew Crew
Atlanta has the best record in baseball. I almost feel like it was inevitable. They have a young core of stars all locked up to below market value that they supplement with veterans on short term deals. Its hard to see how they dont dominate for several more years to come. My friend is a Jays fan and he is furious that they fired their GM the year they almost went to the world series and saw him go to Atlanta and build a juggernaut. Its only been a couple of years but I'm not so sure Eppler has the skills for this without help..
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