Tom Brennan - I AM TIRED OF BEING EXPECTED TO BE SATISFIED WITH POST-SEASON ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Aren't we all so tired of waiting for a team that never gets the kinks out?

Boy, oh boy, think back to the thrills of the 2015 playoffs as a Mets Mets fan.  

Hmm, yeah.  Smiles emerge.

That was really something, huh?  Great thrills.

And to think - it was "only" 5 years ago.

Now, we could use a distraction like last year, where we have a rookie who wins rookie of the year, leads the majors in home runs too, and a Cy Young winner to boot.

Those awards are nice, sure, and we’re proud of those guys and their accomplishments, but at the end of the day they absolutely do not compare to going deep to the postseason. This Mets team rarely ever gets deep in to the postseason.  Rarely gets into the playoffs at all.

Heck, let me repeat: this team hardly ever makes the postseason.  

SO ineptly infrequent.  

A question my doctor asked me after I took a suppository in his office the other day and headed into the bathroom:

"Eliminated yet?"

So it is with the Mets.  The nearly annual question...eliminated yet?

As we all know this year, 16 teams are making the playoffs. And the the Mets are about to be not one of them.

Awards are nice. Being in the playoffs is immeasurably nicer.  

I’m tired of watching clips from 1969 (51 years ago) and 1986 (34 years ago).   

Aren’t you?  I want to watch Mets playoffs that AREN’T reruns. 

This team had better figure out how to start getting to the playoffs on a routine basis, rather than once in a blue moon. I know this Mets fan, the one writing here, is getting very awfully tired of not making the playoffs, except on the rarest of occasions. I know others who feel the same. 

I know many who also have very low expectations of this organization. We can only hope that Steve Cohen can fundamentally transform this organization into one with a simple goal: making the playoffs virtually every year. 

Whatever it takes.  No excuses.  We are, as the Kinks once sang, “So tired, tired of waiting...”

Awards in a very real sense are like kissing your sister.  

We want annual playoffs participation instead. And an occasional World Series.

And I don't care who the Mets have to trade to get there.  

Just, for Mets' Sake, don't trade d'Arnaud again.

Imagine if they kept d'Arnaud.  Maybe a certain hitless first baseman could be moved in a team restructuring, and Dom could play 1B, with TDA backing him up and doing some catching.  Would a .340 TDA in the line up make you feel better than a .200 hitting missile launcher?