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Read: 44 Reasons the Mets Lost

by Matthew Cerrone on October 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pm

The staff at Page 2 for ESPN.com humorously list ‘Forty-four reasons why the Mets suffered perhaps the greatest collapse in baseball history.’

Among the forty-four, they list…

  • Everyone knows Tom Glavine hits the wall at 200 innings … why did Willie Randolph try to squeeze even one-third of an inning more out of him?
  • Lastings Milledge is no Willie Mays.
  • Mr. Met got distracted by his mid-season election to the Hall of Fame.
  • Bill Belichick was stealing the Mets’ signals.
  • Jimmy Rollins played baseball while Jose Reyes sulked.

…that last one hurts…it hurts because it is true