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There are losses and then there are kicked-in-the-groin type losses like last night.
It feels like I am watching Apollo Creed getting bludgeoned to death, but I also refuse to throw in the towel just yet.
Following the game last night, David Wright, speaking to reporters, said:
“It’s a four-game season. It all comes down to who wants it more the last four games.”
Now it is tough to argue that they don’t want it more than anything, but what I question is do they have enough left in them? Can they pick themselves up off the mat one more time and win four in a row?
If you bleed blue and orange, then you have to believe they will.
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“THROW THE TOWEL! THROW THE TOWEL! THROW THE DAMN TOWEL!”
I can think of few worse things than Sabathia pitching on Monday at Shea and closing it with a perfect game against us. That is what would happen. I would say something along the lines of 7-0 Brewers.
Haha I always love a good Rocky reference.
If you bleed blue and orange you know how this is gonna turn out.
Hey Cerrone can I blog on here about every heartbreaking loss I have had since I have followed the Mets in 88????
MATT! There’s a better chance of building a Disney World in Iraq then the Mets winning 4 in a row.
I’ve been to the Iraqi Disney. It’s not like the brochures advertise.
MATT! There’s a better chance of building a Disney World in Iraq then the Mets winning 4 in a row.
I honestly believe we will split the last 4 games and so will the Brewers. The Phils will clinch on Sat. THis all weather permitting. If we need to play a DH Sunday that split will look even more likely.
I agree, NEVER. They are done. How many times have we heard that same garbage from Willie? If last night was not enough to motivate this team to win then nothing is. I do not think they want it at all, they dont play like it. This team will NEVER win 4 in a row NEVER. The Marlins will knock us off llike they did last season. The Joke is on us, the fans.
Well last night is was a 5 game season and obviously the Mets didn’t show that they wanted it more then! So why should we feel different because now it’s a 4 game series?
Because mercifully we are 4 games away from not worrying about these idiots for six months…
Not htinking about them? I will think about the 9th inning of last night’s game for about 3 months. So it took us months to get over last eyars collapse and now it will take months to get over the mets choking away 2008. This team is unreal!!!
Nah, they will make you forget ALL about it once ticket prices for Citi Field become avaialble… LOL
Good point.
I am interested to see the atmosphere on Sunday if the Mets are one game out with both teams. Sunday is supposed to be a celebration but something tells me the Mets might ruin all the fun…
Well, I think Sunday is not going to go as planned as they will either be playing a DH or have a game on Monday, if necessary…
Either way, I have a feeling the festivities on Sunday will be VERY ugly, especially when the Wilpons and Omar are announced…
sunday has a chance to be very very special. with guys like mike in the stands it has the potential for a fairy tale ending.
BUT it could also be a straight -up gruesome nightmare.
Yeah, DWright, you didn’t want it more @ 5 games, so now you’ll get that run in w/ four to go.
Don’t mistake me: I love DWright and my Mets, but last night you beat the livng sht out of me for no good reason. Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory on three separate occasions.
Well said docgood86,It is over.This is not a championship club. They don’t have any heart.
I bleed blue and orange but for some reason this red stuff keeps creeping out of my knuckles when I’m done punching holes in my wall after games.
No one makes me bleed my own blood.
Son of a Bee Sting!
ha ha
lmao!!!
I am beginning to hate these writers. “If you really bleed orange and blue”?
You wouldn’t have a site without us orange and blue bleeders. Zip it Brandon.
agreed. STFU
Wow tough crowd here. Who peed in your Cheerios?
David Wright.
the Mets
o you know what it’s like
to be chased by the Ghost of Failure
while staring through Victory’s door?
Of course you do, you’re a Mets fan
caught in a do-or-die moment
in late September at Shea
As one that’s battled hard
through many a broken dream
Let me say, “in order to rise to the occasion
you must be willing
to go down with the ship”,
Have no fear, no hesitation,
for Winning shall be it’s reward!
Don’t let them get in your head!
you’ve kept it up this long
You’re a Mets fan in late September
and you’ll fight til the glorious end
Cheer the team today;
(your boys in orange and blue)
Let them hear you shout
as they fight for what’s mightily due
-Frank Messina
BELIEVE
“It’s a four-game season. It all comes down to who wants it more the last four games.”
Or is it who doesn’t spit the bit…….. Like David obviously invented…
Wright was pathetic last night
Wright is our A-Rod… Compiler… He needs to step it up…
Sac fly… The Subs were handing the game to the Mets last night… If you don’t believe me, ask yourself why Piniella wasn’t warmiong anyine up in the 8th or 9th…
DW did tie the game with a walk and get a hit, he cant do it all. Jose was up with the bases loaded and did nothing. What did Beltran do? How about Church, Schneider or Castro? It was the team that failed over and over again last night.
That’s right, Brandon! Remember, we have the Black Cat and the Black Bat on our side! AND SHEA!!!
I know I risk being accused of being a nattering nabob of negativism by some of the more pollyannish amongst us, but last night showed why the 2008 Mets are not a playoff caliber team. A runner on third with no outs, heart of the order up and you can’t get him home???!! WTF???!!!!
Meanwhile the Cubs have a runner on second with 2 outs and not only get him home, but manage to tack on a couple more runs for good measure.
And I’m not even going to go into all the other chances the Mets had to put the game away.
agree. there is no point in this team even making the playoffs.
i said the same thing after the Cubs scored the go ahead run. This Mets offense is scared to death of RISP at bats. This team doesnt deserve to be in the playoffs at all. Minaya had better make some good signings and trades this offseason.
If this eam were smart, they would have compeltely brand new front office in 2009 but as all know that isn’t happening…
Well to be fair, they did walk Delgado and Beltran after Wright struke out. But, I do agree with you . This is NOT a champion team and the Cubs played like one.
“It’s a four-game season. It all comes down to who wants it more the last four games.”
No it’s not…sorry. It’s not about that hippy, cliche, sound bite BS. It’s about executing and playing sound baseball…
And earning your 55 million dollar salary!
actually its a 55 million dollar contract. Way to pay attention.
Semantics.
I would love to hear David be like “yea I screwed up…I’m gettin paid millions of dollars and banging models left and right yet I can’t hit a sac fly to RF.”
He was obviously using the wrong stick last night…
Cubs stuck the dagger in the Brewers hearts a few days ago. Now they stuck the dagger in the Mets hearts last night.
Brewers responded. I’m not sure if the Mets will.
I don’t think believing in them has anything to do with being a true fan or not. I know tons of die-hard Yankees fans that knew the moment Wang went down that their season was over, they didn’t have hope.
For us, however, it comes down to whether or not the team of guys who can’t seem to hit with RISP or in the ‘clutch’ or possibly pitch a game with less than 6 relievers can actually come up big. They haven’t been able to all season, and now that there’s four games left is something magically going to change? I doubt it. There is just something about this collective group of guys that haven’t been able to get it done.
And I’m not pointing any finger either on the bullpen or the ‘core guys’ that everyone is saying we deal (that’s just f’king stupid by the way). It’s all of them. It’s the New York Mets as an organization. While there was no reliever in the market at the deadline, Omar did nothing to make it better. What he did do was comprise a team of old overpaid (Castillo, El Duque, Moises) washed up talent. The ‘big bats’ don’t seem so big in tight spots. As for the ‘pen, this is what happens when you come into a season with a bunch of specialists with no defined roles. You have guys come in and get one big out and then proceed to get lit up by the rest of the line up.
“…guys who can’t seem to hit with RISP”
Forget “hit”!! How about a freaking SACRIFICE FLY????!!
Amen… This team did not even need a hit…
All they needed was a medium depth fly ball… The Cubs were handing this one to them…
And that goes for Church too, who not only couldn’t get the ball in the air, but couldn’t hit through a drawn-in infield either. Just miserable situational hitting. Miserable.
the mets are certainly entertaining to watch just have to pretend its a long movie that started last year. Part I (2007). The Sequel (2008). They probably want a Trilogy (2009).
Frodo didnt get to the mountain until the 3rd movie.
Hey didn’t the mountain collapse around him too….
On a brighter note, we may have found our 2Bman for the last 4 games.
who Ramon? He had that big lead off double in the 8th…and made a nice play for Ayala.
I still think he’ll come of the bench though.
He’s 35 or something crazy. He’s not the answer to anything other than this question: “What infielder shares a name with Pedro Martinez’s older brother.”
“It’s a four-game season. It all comes down to who wants it more the last four games.”
No. It comes down to who can put the bat on the ball and loft a simple futhermucking sacrifice fly with the game on the line. Clearly, it’s not us.
lol @ “futhermucking”.
Right - it’s got nothing to do with who wants it. It comes to ability to hit the ball well and pitch the ball well enough to get other hitters out.
If it was about who wanted it, then I’d be going on vacation, because I want one so f***ing bad.
HIT THE F***ING BALL!!!
I still think we can and will get it done, but the weather is not gonna make it any easier for us this weekend.
thank you toasty…there are waaaaay too many clever little soundbites going around. If that saying were true, then it should start in April and the saying should go “well, there’s 162 games left, plus playoffs, it’s gonna come down to who wants it more”
hit
pitch
field
run
execute
that’s what it comes down to…
stop screwing around with the other nonsense
As Beltran Said about the “New Mets” I’m here to Get on, get over and get in. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH What a joke.
How about “get on, get stranded, go home.”
But hey.. at least we have all our prospects!! We didn’t need a Manny.. or an Aburey Huff who cleared waviers!
We didn’t need an Aurther Rhodes whose been lights out for the Marlins…
4 years?? Give Omar 10!!
Can we stipulate in his contact that we can never fire him either? I think that’s the clause that Matt Millen had.
They have to 1-3 these last 4 games.. but after that yes.. then I’m pretty sure that clause will trigger.
At least Omar got us to the Play-offs. Millen didn’t even have the Lions sniffing the Play-offs.
1) First of all, David Wright has to stock saying idiotic, cookie-cutter sayings like, “Duh, well now it’s a four game season.” NO S###!
Here’s the thing Davey. If you had managed to hit a fly ball to the out field like any retarded major leaguer could do, it wouldn’t be a 4 games series.
Honestly, nut up man. If the Mets don’t make the playoffs, I say David Wright should never be made captain of this team.
2) Why give Omar Minaya a 4 year deal? That’s like giving the CEO of Lehman or Enron a 4 year extension for the “great for they’ve done.”
3) It’s not Jerry’s fault. Actually, if I’m him, I see if another team with some heart offers me a managerial job, because no money is worth bearing the sight of these losers day in and day out!
4) Can Carlos Beltran spend some of his $18M per year salary this offseason to get that rat cut off the side of his head.
5) Luis Castillo and Aaron Heilman should not even bother going back into the locker room after Sunday’s game. They should get into their cars and leave because they’ll never play another game as a Met.
6) Maybe Daniel Murphy can emerge as a leader next year. He’s the only one playing his heart out out there.
7) If the Mets miss the playoff, then the Wilpons better buy a World Series for next year and I mean resign Ollie, sign K-Rod, AND sign Manny!
“resign Ollie”
Yeah, he was money last night when we needed him. Let him walk.
My only consolation last night was knowing that Oliver’s paycheck for last year went down with every hit, walk and run.
Yeah now he’ll get a measely 4 year 40 million deal from the Angels…
Why would you want Ollie back? He is always going to be wild and frustating.
Derek Lowes a free agent, I say we replace Ollie with him.
As long as we see Utley and Howard 20 plus games a season.. we more then one lefty in the starting rotation..
Just my opinion….
And I don’t think Niese is ready….
Why give Omar Minaya a 4 year deal? That’s like giving the CEO of Lehman or Enron a 4 year extension for the “great for they’ve done.”
It’s nothing like that - Omar has helped make this a franchise that makes a buttload of money. It’s a business deal, and you get paid when you’ve been successful.. Omar’s made this franchise more successful than it was before he got here.
By sepdning the second most money in baseball!
Omar didn’t sign the cable deal for SNY
Omar didn’t crate the new stadium
He gave a bunch of old players big contracts… had Johan fall into his lap who he ALSO got cause he gave him a huge contract…
And now has “his team” poised to miss the post season for the 2nd straight year, because he’d rather hold onto a bunch of mid level propsects, then go get a bat bull pen arm in July.
Can’t wait for 4 more years!
“If the Mets don’t make the playoffs, I say David Wright should never be made captain of this team.”
You’re right, and maybe if he doesn’t get a hit in tomorrow’s game we should outright cut him.
Amen to that (except the re-sign Ollie). Seriously, can this team collectively grow a pair already?
do you know what’s wrong with this country?
Its people who fail more often than not making millions upon millions of dollars even when they fail.
the season is OVER…what in the past 2 weeks gives anybody any idea that this team can win more than 1 out 4?
Nothing.
Give it up. Its over.
Hopefully that is what the country does to right? Just give up and stay home? Bad analogy.
Actually, not just this country, I think people, as a civilization in general, otherwise, you are spot on.
you don’t know me
you’re too old
let go
its over
NOBODY LISTENS TO TECHNOOOOOOOOOOO
haha nice
Nice slim shady…..
well now we know how you feel.
I’ll be watching the next 4 games however believing that eventually they’ll hit a sac fly for an RBI.
Good - go root for someone else than. Because the Mets don’t need you.
It will be over when they’re eliminated. And they’re not near that yet. So shut up and root or just admit your a fairweather fan, shut the f*** up and get the H-E-Double hockey sticks out of here.
We really have to expect some mindless venting this morning. However, Santana up there is a pesimistic person in general.
I have been after Matt for years, put up two comment sections. One for venting and one for actual worthwhile post.
The season is over in the sense that there is 4 games left. But if you have given up all together then you are just being an over-dramatic fair weather fan.
Fine it’s frustrating, but the bottom line is we have 4 games left, 1.5 down in the division, and we are tied for the wild card. The Brewers have lost Sheets and Para for the season, the Phills have lost 2 in a row. We are playing the Cubs tomorrow against Rich Harden, who has a good chance of only going 5 innings. Then we have a 3 game set against the Marlins and their pitching staff of Chris Volstad, Ricky Nolasco, and Scott Olson. I realize it’s tough to be optimistic, it’s not over.
Not true… I’m a huge fan, season ticket holder and completely disenchanted…
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me…
thank you
Brandon, you look like a cool guy babe, by that stylish picture you have posted. Try your motivational stuff on the bullpen and every player who left a man on base last evening. Maybe it will work. I am bleeding blue and orange right now because of your post! Thanks!
Well, my predictions were pretty much on the money…
1-The Mets will lose 2 of 3 to the Braves.
2-The Mets will lose 3 of 4 to the Cubs.
3-The Mets will lose 2 of 3 to the Marlins.
4-The Mets will not win the division.
5-The Mets will not win the wildcard.
So, you can extend this to say that the Mets will only win one more game this year. It would be hard for the Brewers to go 1-3 in their final four games.
You’ll find it easier to accept the inevitable than to be disappointed by this team again. Tonight is an automatic loss, and the Marlins will play them tough. I doubt they are not eliminated before Sunday.
Keep posting the same garbage. Again, go to grammar school. Learn tense.
question for you steve -
will you be happy and say “told you so!” if your predictions come true?
or will you be pissed and upste like the rest of us Met fans?
just wondering…
my guess…both.
i would have guessed the same result, but unless johan comes back on short rest to pitch saturday there will be no need for him to pitch on sunday as the mets will be eliminated by then
I hope Johan pitches on Sunday. I don’t think the game will have any significance, but I’m going to the game, and I’d like to have some reminder why there’s cause to celebrate the end of the season and Shea, and have some sense of optimism heading into Citi Field that we have a real big time ace that we can build the rest of our team around.
If anything comes out of this season, it’s that Johan is a serious winner, he exudes confidence and makes all eight guys around him more confident, especially as the season has worn on.
I just wish we had a guy in out starting eight that did that for the rest of team on a daily basis as well, but as of now I do not believe we do. We have plenty of talent, but not that kind of player.
you must feel glad you were right.
How is he CURRENTLY RIGHT? The only one he has gotten right so far is the Braves series.
Also, you must include tonight’s upcoming loss to the Cubs. So, 2 for 5 so far (but we all know what’s going to happen, don’t we?)
NO WE DONT.
tool
And Henderson is back with the same drivel yet again.
He bravely stays away after wins, and comes back to blow his sad and pathetic negative horn after last night’s loss.
It must be a lot of fun to know you in real life.
Don’t bother flaming back nonfan, I ain’t paying any more attention to your nonsense.
Kingman:
Again, you repeat this lie. I posted numerous times yesterday about the possible effects of the weather on the upcoming Mets/Marlins and Brewers/Cubs series. I also reposted my predictions, which has been a daily occurrence since Sept. 19.
I’ve been posting every day, even on the few days where the Mets mustered up a victory.
Lastly, you obviously are paying pretty close attention to my “nonsense”.
Speaking of next year. I want no part of Ollie. Offer him arbitration and take the picks. Sign Burnette and Lowe.
If you think these guys really want it, watch the 9th inning again from last night… If they really want it and they believe they are a championship team, they make a productive out…
No more fantasy-land, they blew a golden oppotunity and have zero momentum right now… And I do not want to hear about how this was a good season but a rough 2 week patch…
This team has holes, a lot of of them…
When a AA rookie has better AB’s than proven ML vets, there is a problem with personnel.
Wanting it doesn’t make you get it. What the hell is wrong with you people? Baseball is a tough game to play and it takes a whole lot more than wanting it to get it done. This has NOTHING to do with wanting it.
Right, they wanted it and failed to execute. Wright wanted it too much and swung at 3 really bad pitches trying to be a hero.
This was only the 29th ‘most devastating loss of the year.’ By now the metsblog guys must have a stockpile of phrases to describe devastating losses. All they have to do is pick one, copy and paste.
No way we are winning with Pedro on the mound. I’m sure the Mets will find a way to offer him a 2-year deal before the game.
2009…
Captain… Daniel Murphy
hows that sound =)
2b Ramon Martinez (cause he can hit the ball into the OF)
if only some of the guys last night could do that…
9 more hrs until game time.
9 more hrs of sulking and complaining about the mets.
Capt Murphy? Sounds like a potential fit. We know that Wright will never be worthy of being a captain.
Sounds like an Irish Sea Captain.
“It’s a four-game season. It all comes down to who wants it more the last four games.”
No, it doesn’t. ……. It comes down to who is going to get the job done EINSTEIN.
Ahh, you are so right my friend. No matter how much you want it, and in Wright’s case too much last night, you have to execute.
It’s actually all about grit and determination. What do you think Jon Miller?
i love david wright, but his sound bites are so willie randolph they make me sick. next thing you know tomorrow he’s going to say that these struggles are just going to make the champagne taste sweeter.
omar can not resign oliver perez. there is no way that i could put for another year of his mess on the mound just let him walk and sign someone that throws strikes consistently. he is probably going to ask for 5 years between 65 and 75 million there is no way that i would shell out that kind of money for him. i would rather go out and sign a guy like derek lowe who is a consistent winner and throws strikes.
finally, i would love to see tonight’s game rained out. i might be wrong thinking this but i think we stand a much better chance beating a cubs team who does not want to come back to shea to play one game on monday before getting ready for the playoffs. i envision lou using a lot of reserve players on monday and we would not have to face rich harden.
I would not mind a break and a rain out tonight too.
As for Perez, question is which is worth more? Burnette and 2 picks or Oliver I don’t know who I will be today Perez?
i don’t think this will happen, because the mets are already investing a lot of money in santana, but i would do the same thing with sabathia this winter.
but if the mets do not make the playoffs this year i believe there will be a lot of pressure on omar minaya to make bold moves and signing sabathia would be a bold move and it would clearly give us the best 1 - 2 punch in the majors. by signing sabathia they would also be helping the bullpen indirectly because santana, sabathia, and pelfrey have proven that they could eat up innings.
Way to show support, people.
I can see you all in England in the fall of 1940. “It’s all over. Might as well surrender to Hitler now. We can’t come back from Dunkirk and being runoff the continent. If we surrender, maybe they won’t bomb us. That Churchill is a bum.”
Actually comments on here are not that bad considering the loss of last night. Very few are saying season’s over and trade everyone. Those guys are just tools.
I will probably be watching tonight (if it doesn’t rain), and I will try to be positive, but I have to say, last night took a lot out of me, and judging from the posts here last night and this morning, I think last night was a turning point for the fans. I think the Mets lost the fans last night.
Do I believe? Sorry to say, I believe the Mets will not be in the playoffs this year. That’s what I believe.
Do I hope? Sure. I hope I’m wrong; I hope there will be a string of four miraculous games and that Philly and Milwaukee will choke down the stretch like we did. But at this point, I truly think the chances of that are pretty slim.
I’m not angry, like many of the posters here seem to be. It’s a game, and in the end, it has little impact on my life. If I look at this practically, it’s probably good for me, becasue if the Mets don’t play in October then I’m going to get a lot more work done, and spend a lot less time glued to my TV or trying to get tickets to games.
So I’m not angry. But I am very sad today. Because I no longer believe.
Being out there you could ell when they lost the fans… The place was electric and after Delgado homered the palce was shaking…
Once the Cubs tied it the place was dead… The Mets had the place in super-playoff mode last night and let it go…
Who wants it??? thats weak if so it appears we sure as hell don’t
Sure we want it. What a silly statement. Like Wright went up to the plate and said, “Nah, I think I will just strike out. Why try hard to win the game”. Maybe he was thinking “Man I have not came through in the clutch for my team and I am getting a lot of pressure. How good would it be if I could come through here and win this for my team.” And instead of taking the walk tried to do too much?
But nah, they don’t want it. They like hearing the boos and choking again.
Don’t mean to be disrespectful, but trying too much is no excuse. Wright is being paid to execute. Trying too hard to hit a fly ball? Wright’s been hitting fly balls all season long and he can’t hit one in the most important situation? C’mon now.
LOL I love the being paid to execute comments. These guys aren’t machines. Andrew Jones didn’t get paid to hit .150 but he did. Wright’s contract doesn’t say “if you accept this contract, you are expected to execute.”
The point is not the contract. The point is that if you wanna be the face of the franchise then you better deliver the goods. I love D Wright more than anybody, but he has got to come up big in the spot he was in. That’s his job.
Did anybody else see that supid Jimmy Fallon movie Fever Pitch?
Where he has the ah-ha moment at the bar, when he sees the red sox eating dinner, laughing and joking after they went down 3 games to 0 in the 2004 ALCS?
And he realizes that they don’t care why should we?
That’s how I feel about the mets.. I’ve gone to maybe 20 games this year? Spent hundreds of hours reading /watching/ defending them…matching the hundrededs if not thousands I’ve spent to go the stadium and support the team….
Have the Jerseys hanging in the closets.. the baseball america prospect handbook on the shelf just so I can read their mets top 30…
And for what? To watch a game like last night for what feels like 20th time this season?
Sure I love the Mets.. but have they ever loved me back?
That’s whrere I’m at… we’re not the amazings anymore… this is not a team of under achievers like Bobby Jones and Benny Agbayni…
It’s a team whose money is tied up in older injured and underperforming players.. and are limping to the finish.
We used to be terrible or at least the underdog to the yankees.. but it was ok. cause hey.. at least we weren’t the yankees…
Sigh.. well look at us now.
Why on earth do you people keep saying that they were not trying? Do you actually think last night in the 8th inning with Murphy on 3rd that these guys were NOT trying? They were trying too hard if anything.
I never said they weren’t trying..
The point is they go on with their lives… no matter what happens.. win our loose.
And yet fans like us agonize.. our only “reward” for all we go through is actually winning…
What you say also reminds me a lot of A Bronx Tale. When Sunny asks C what Mickey Mantle has ever done for him…
please let me know what drugs you are taking to make you so optimistic and happy, i want some of those
that was meant for the real btw
Santana, not that you actually read post but if you had you could tell that I have not been happy or optimistic at all this morning. Your sunshine label won’t work.
My first post today said that after last night the do NOT deserve to make the playoffs. Will they? Who knows. I can make predictions all I want but have no idea. Thus the season is not over yet and anything can happen. However, at this point if we don’t get in then we did not deserve to.
He never said they weren’t trying. He is saying that he’s invested a lot more into this team than they have (emotionally).
I disagree with that too. You don’t think Wright has an incredible amount invested in this team emotionally? You think it was good for his emotions to go up and not perform? You think he wants to be labeled a choker?
Would Bobby V have gotten this team through this and into the playoffs???
I dont think so, but Mike Piazza would have.
Thy way some of you circle the wagons for golden boy and the team is amusing and sad at the same time…..you have a terrible case of battered wife syndrome. You’re walking around with a couple of black eyes but you’re like “he still loves me…”
WAKE UP.
Bottom line is this team doesn’t have enough clutch players with the heart and make up to come through in September in big pressure spots. Problem is they are getting paid like they do….
Oh yeah, and Ryan Church… Yup… Can you say reverting to career norms?
Church came up real small as well… Maybe he is a bench player after all?
Ya think? Like he’s been his whole career?
You mean another one of Omar’s “guys” isn’t working out?
Just like Ayala can’t keep a game tied? Another Omar guy…
Also don’t look now.. Milledge is batting .270.. only .007 behind church…
He already beats Church in Home runs, RBIs, stolen bases, and dread locks.
You mean corn rows, and award winning rap albums
Yeah i was gonna try to work in an r kelly joke.. but you know.. there might be kids reading….
lol
Reverting to career norms? What’s wrong with you? This guy just missed more than half the season wtih two concussions. He’s in his 2nd spring training and is trying to find his swing again. He shouldn’t be starting every day, but the injury to Tatis made it a necessity.
I’m going to have to agree. Church clearly isn’t right. He shouldn’t even be playing but there’s no better option.
Excuses.
He was having an amazing season.. and he’s come back down to earth…
So who knows what the real ryan church is… but I think this is it..
He has a propsenity for getting hurt… has played 1 full season healthy?
Just not a dependable player…
Again.. would an Aubrey Huff who cleared waives been the worst idea?? Little insurance in the OF and IF?
Church has always played healthy. His lack of at bats is due to the Nationals refusing to start him or bat him against lefties. This is his first injury prone year and it was a fluke.
The bottom line is that this team does not have the killer instinct to get it done in big spots, late in games. This has become epidemic.
Wow that was fun. This was without a doubt the knock out blow to the Mets. Start getting ready for next year guys because it is over.
The Braves beat the Phillies for the second straight night. The Mets get up 5-1 on Zambrano, piss the lead away, fall behind, have runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out two straight innings and only manage one run out if it. Oh yes and then the greatest part of the night. A lead off triple with the heart of the lineup coming up and they don’t score. I turned it off right after that because I knew that was it and they would lose it in the 10th.
They should be one up in the wildcard and a half a game behind the Phillies but nope of course the Mets find a way to fail. I stuck by them all year, defended them all year feeling they would turn it around which they did. Of course just like last year they can not finish the job. But know more I am done with them this year.
People say what you want, you gotta believe and you’re not a true fan if you give up on them now and why are so many fans so negative and go to the ballpark and support your team. FORGET THAT!!! I am a 29 year old diehard Mets fan since I was about 6 and I have put up with a lot of crap play from this team but this by far takes the cake.
I don’t agree that we should give up on the season with 4 to play, but you gotta understand the frustration from the fans. We’ve been let down by this team too many times, now is not the time to be giving games away. It’s kinda hard to be positive when our guys keep giving games away like that.
The Marlins are licking their chops for a chance to knock us out this weekend. It’s gonna be nasty even the weather is against us.
It will take a Herculean effort by the Mets to hold off this tide. The only thing in our favor is the Cubs play the Brewers and might provide us some help to back in.
I know it’s just a cliche, but the whole “who wants it more” is exactly the problem. Wright wanted it so much last night that he swung at two horrednous ball 4s when he has 2 MVP candidates behind him.
If he had played within himself, the Mets most likely would have had Beltran up with no out and the sacs full. I like those odds.
They always say that when guys are “in the zone” the game slows down for them. I think we are trying to do too much too often.
I bleed orange and blue. I also have functioning eyes and a brain. When I combine those two I realize that this team is sinking like a stone. So David, now that its a 4 game season and a test of who wants it more will you drive a runner in from 3rd with no outs? no? thats right youre a mental midget. See you in March.
The ghosts’ of Mets past will not allow them to crumble these last four games at Shea no matter what these bunch of chokers do. I feel that the loss was a prelude to an “AMAZING” finish for the METS and the prefect sendoff to SHEA STADIUM!!! LET”S GO METS!>>>>>>>>>>>>DAM IT!
David Wright post game - tonight…
“It is a three game season.”
David Wright sitting in the clubhouse tomorrow after the rainout watching the Brewers beat the Cubs to go up a half game…
“It is still a three game season.”
David Wright sitting in the clubhouse Saturday after the second rainout watching the Brewers beat the Cubs to go up a full game…
“It is still a three game season.”
Sunday after the Mets loss both ends of a double header…
“Turns out it was only a two game season, as we don’t get to play 162 games.”