Opinion: Every Game Matters
…as a mets fan, never before have i felt that every game matters as much as it does this season…i have typically been of the mindset that it is a long season, and every team goes through its ups and downs at unpredictable times…i still feel this way, but for the first time the sense of urgency created by last year’s finish has me exaggerating the importance of every loss…i’m definitely not naive enough to say that the mets are in one of those funks right now, only that the seeds of doubt have creeped into my psyche, and the confidence i once felt in the overall result of 162 games has been slightly lessened…
…it’s very early in the season, and i thought that i had put last year behind me, but apparently i have been conditioned to feel the way i do about this year’s losses…this is odd to me because for the majority of my time as a mets fan i did not fully expect the team to succeed, but things have changed…obviously the team can’t win every game that Johan Santana starts, but i unrealistically feel like they should…i know these thoughts are mostly baseless and it irks me when people compare seasons to each other, but i can’t deny that the urgency to win has been heightened for this mets fan…
..i don’t like taking every game so seriously, that’s for the players and coaches to do…so for now, i will be mindful of my standard “one game at a time” mantra, and try not to lose sight of the big picture of a long season…it will just be much easier to do so when the mets win…
