CASEY STENGEL HAD A GAME PLAN IN 1962.
COULDN’T WIN, SO HE WENT “LOVABLE LOSERS”.
MY GAME PLAN? I HAVE ONE OF MY OWN.
I’ll get right to it. MY game plan?
I plan to devote less time to writing about the Micro-Mutts this off season.
Whatever I write about involving all things Mets seems to matter not a whit to decision makers, they make the mistakes anyway, so I won’t invest much time in Mets-related writing and will spend more time doing other things that are more important to me and that I have devoted insufficient time and effort to.
I will, fairly soon, do my Top 30, of course, because the Kids Are All Right, even if the Queens dudes are not, and I invite my fellow Mack’s Mets writers to share their thoughts on the kids.
I will say what I like - and what I think the top 30 need to do better.
I also will list out the next 10 or 20 (31-50). Some of those outside the Top 30 eventually will, like Jeff McNeil, make it big.
I will summarize non-player-specific ideas to make the team better.
I will do a multi-post refresh on past years’ draft successes, and failures, and draft patterns to embrace and to avoid.
I will, of course, comment on my fellow writers’ posts, and encourage every reader to do the same and to run topics for discussion by Mack.
It will be a long off-season, a long time until the next poorly or overly conditioned fool pulls an oblique muscle and misses half a season.
Lastly, I will encourage you elite readers to reach out to Mack if you have a passion for writing about the Mets.
I will not watch the playoffs (maybe a little of the World Series), so I will not spend my time on the playoffs if the Mets will not spend time playing playoff games.
Thank you. Make very sure you have an entirely terrific day today.
11 comments:
Thanks for the update
Will you still write 3x a week?
Thanks Tom, always enjoy your updates on the organization.
Now, in the words of Elmer Fudd:
Get some west and welaxation.
Always look forward to Tom's posts.
Yes.
Heh heh heh heh
Thanks, Ray.
Tom,
Always enjoy and definitely learn from your posts so I certainly will look forward to what you write this off season.
I will try to encourage you to provide your opinions on the minor league and the DSL players that we both seem to follow during the year.
Will Sammon has a great article regarding Starling Marte in an Atlantic on-line article today. He noted Marte as being a very positive influence on the younger players throughout the year.
I fully understand Tom's desire to step back a bit. Having taken early retirement I have an opposite approach. I have nothing but time on my hands so I look forward to coming up with something worth writing four times per week. If I was still working then I might have the inability to embrace the Mets futility while also attempting to stay professional on a daily basis. I'm a big fan in doing whatever works for you personally. Write less now. Write more when (if?) things improve with the team.
Thanks. I am, among other things, singing at 2 small local churches now. I am about to turn 72, but my “singing fastball” still clocks 100. So I am trying to take the time to use the gift more. I am contemplating taking up the keyboard. Would take a while from scratch. But right now, I am tied down to singing with soundtracks.
It is odd, too, that I was picking up a friend to drive him and his son to the airport. There was a tennis racket lying on the lawn out front. I haven’t played in 40 years. I picked it up and swung it forehand and backhand. It felt just like it did 40 years ago. No “old guy” stuff at all. Several weeks ago, same thing at a driving range. First time in 40 years, felt THE SAME.
Next, I have to find a batting range. I’ll post video if/when I do.
The real reason he is cutting back is so he has more time to sneak into Citi Field at night and slowly move the fences in. Good luck Tom! We'll bail you out if you get caught.
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