HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!
Well, after playing, to twist a Wilpon term,”meaningless March baseball”, here we find ourselves on April Fools Day.
Happy April Fools Day, to all of us unhappy April fools.
Me? I’m not feeling very good about this season. No fooling.
3 sad losses, with few offensive or pitching highlights? No fooling.
After finishing spring training 3rd to last in runs, and last in batting average? No fooling.
McNeil, Lindor, and Nimmo, who are under contracts paying them $550 million, are 3 for 36? No fooling.
Drew Gilbert this spring and in the first AAA weekend is 2 for 25? No fooling.
Jarred Kelenic, in his first Atlanta weekend, hit.714 after a horrific spring? No fooling.
Mark Vientos, who led the Mets this spring with 5 homers, was up 12 times this past weekend with a homer, double, single, 3 walks, and one K…and he’s in THE MINORS? No fooling.
Severino sadly looking like Mike Vasil did in AAA on Sunday? No fooling.
Quintana stayed stuck on 9 wins for the 5 season span of 2020 to 2024? No fooling.
Milwaukee leaves town undefeated? No fooling.
Mets stay in town “un-won?” No fooling.
The “lowly Tigers” roll into town - undefeated? No fooling.
The Mets have 3 night games in extremely early April against the Tigers? No fooling.
The weather is supposed to be very chilly and wet? No fooling.
The Yanks, fighting for Metro area baseball fans’ hearts and minds, dazzle in 4 Soto-inspired wins, on the road, against the Astros? No fooling.
10 comments:
63 years of foolishly being a Mets fan. Oy vey.
Yes, it is early. Yes, they don’t look good. However, they are now on this road, so let’s just watch. A complete sell-off this past winter would have been the easier route to take. They could have spoken about getting under the penalty for drafting and signing players and no one would have complained. But, they didn’t. They took the harder road and even worse, their stars aren’t really starring yet.
So, while we did notice that Kelenic has had a good start; while we have noticed that Vientos and his juvenile BS aren’t doing poorly, we also notice that Kelenic has the luxury of hitting ninth in a lineup where the pitcher views him as “his breather” so let’s see how that continues and Vientos has hit in AAA before.
I feel the Mets are more affected by the New York press than the Yankees. It was a stupid move to send a better hitter like Vientos down and keep DJ Stewart and taking ten games for granted. While he didn’t deserve to make the team necessarily, he was better than Stewart. And if he is hot after ten games, we’ll, let’s see that first. Then, we will make a tough decision. To punt the DH spot for ten games was stupid from the start, as was having an interstate marginal MLB player make your team out of spring.
I'm in the same boat as you. No fooling.
I get it no fooling. David Stern's plan must be for us to see the really good young team that he built and excite all of us Met fans that this is what we should expect hopefully soon. I can't remember a more dishearting beginning of a season than this. I'm already starting to focus more on the NFL draft as hope springs eternal I guess and like the NFL for most teams fans their favorite player is the backup QB and for us of course it's the "overflow of talent" in the minors but of course they spit the bit for the most part this weekend. I guess I just need to exhale a little here and regroup what about you guys?
Simple. The Mets need to quit fooling around. The Met fan’s favorite WHO song is “ we WILL get fooled again.”
I hafta disagree on Vientos. He needs to play every day, including in the field, and work on his K rate.
He can't do it on the Queens bench, so where would he play here? A little (even a year) of extra learning won't hurt him.
Stastics prove that a team that starts 0-3 has never made it to the post-season! It's time to raise the White Flag, get rid of the dead wood, cut ticket prices in half. I will NEVER watch another Mets game.
And furthermore, I wish everyone here a very Happy AFD! 🤣
Bill, it’s hopeless, and I say that feeling very hopeful.
Last year we spent months saying, "It's early", trying not to turn some tough performances into predictors for an awful season. As it turns out, that's exactly what last season was - awful.
Here we are at the beginning of a new season with much lower expectations, prepared for it to be an "evaluation year". But strangely, and very much at the last minute, some of the kids to evaluate were sent down (e.g. Vientos) and some of the veterans that had bigger contracts but not bigger spring performances (Stewart, Taylor) are on the field looking exactly like one would expect given their history.
Flashbacks to last year's ugly experience, feeling bad about today but hoping tomorrow will be better are inevitable. I will try to withstand, but it will not be easy.
Paul, all you can do. Grin and bear it. It’s a Mets fans’ lot in life.
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