Opinion: Stop The Roller Coaster
In the Daily News, Lisa Olsen writes…
“The Mets are playing some god-awful baseball. They’re having trouble catching the ball, throwing it, pitching it, hitting it in key situations and beating it to bases. It’s gnaw-your-arm-off-in-the-morning ugly, the sort of ugly that makes you wonder what in the world they must be thinking.”
…every one of those statements should be followed by: against the Phillies…because, the Mets played clean, crisp and critically acclaimed baseball the previous 12 days…and, frankly, based on the previous 149 games, i have every reason to believe they’ll return to playing well starting tonight…
…i mean, just go back and look at the schedule since the start of August, when the Mets won four of five (woh, up), then lost four of five (woh, down), then won seven of eight (woh, up), then lost of seven of nine, including getting swept in philly (woh, down), then they won eight of nine (up), and now they’ve lost three of four (down, again)…
…i don’t know about you, but i’m exhausted…the Mets have been telling me 
all year that ‘my season has come.’…instead, they should be qualifying that by saying ‘my roller-coaster season has come’…
…seriously, for a fan like me, who is conditioned to expect disaster, this season has fried my nerves…
…today, i went back and listened to myself in some recent interviews, and then re-read my writing, and it appears i am no longer making sense, probably because i no longer know what is up and what is down…compared to last season, which was like a stroll through the park, picking daisies, all casual with long deep breaths and sunshine, this season is like walking through a mine field…holding my breath…at night…and i’m totally lost…
…assuming the Mets survive and get to the playoffs, if we get a petition going, do you think we can get the post-season to start in the second week of October…because, i think i speak for every one when i say i need to get off the roller coaster for a minute just to catch my breath…my stomach is sick and i’m dizzy…
…please, team, get your bearings over the next two weeks…because if you don’t, i might throw up over the railing…
