Quote: It’s Painful, It Hurts

by Matthew Cerrone on October 1st, 2007 at 8:56 am

Mets 3B David Wright, following yesterday’s season-ending loss to the Marlins…

“I obviously think this is one of the best teams in the National League, but that doesn’t matter right now. We’re going home. We’ll be watching the post-season from TV…

“It doesn’t matter what players you have, or how good you are on paper, you still have to go out there, on the field, and do your job – and down the stretch we didn’t do that…I’ve said it a million times, that’s the beautiful thing about baseball, good and bad, is that, you can have a great team on paper, but you have to go out there and execute – and we didn’t execute. We had plenty of opportunities to wrap this thing up and win this division and we didn’t take advantage of that…There is no explainable reason why. It just happens. It happens to the best of teams, and it just happened at the wrong time for us this year…

“It’s painful. It hurts. At the same time, we did it to ourselves. It’s not like we didn’t see this coming and it just blind-sided us. We gradually let this thing slip away. So, shooting yourselves in the foot over and over again down the stretch…in all honestly, we didn’t deserve to make the playoffs. You know, you finish the biggest home stand of the year 1–6, that’s not good enough…we have nobody to blame but ourselves.”

…if there is one silver lining to the final stretch of the season, it is wright…there must be changes made to this team…and one of them must be that it is built in wright’s shadow…it’s time for him to be given the room to step up and take control…he wasn’t ready coming in to this season, but he is now, and that’s obvious…he has to be their leader in the press, among fans, publicly on the field and privately in the clubhouse…his attitude and performance, as well as honesty and recognition, throughout this entire season and ‘collapse’ has been admirable, inspired and professional, which are the exact sensibilities that will lead the rest of the club to success next season and beyond…it’s his team now, and the sooner the organization recognizes that the better…

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