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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…