Opinion: The Mets just Can’t Get it Together
The Mets have lost eight of their last 11 games.
“We’re not doing too many things right,” David Wright said, following yesterday’s loss to the Rayes. “When you look at the standings, we’re in striking distance, but we’re concerned about how we’re playing right now.”
Fortunately, The Phillies went 1-8 on their just-completed home-stand.
“We’ll be fine,” Shane Victorino said, according to the News Journal. “We’re defending champs, and we’re not defending champs for no reason. At the end of the day, I’m walking out of this place,
and we’re still in first place. That’s how you’ve got to look at it.”
In fact, the Mets are 3–8 since June 10, but have actually gained a game on the Phillies during that time.
I am afraid of roller coasters, mostly because of the heights and because I don’t like to be upside down. However, it appears I can get the same rush of the up-and-down thrills, without the heights, all by simply rooting for the Mets.
The sad thing is, I feel like I’ve been on this ride for two years.
This season, I feel like the Mets have the parts and pieces to win games, but they just can’t get it together. I mean, short of one hot week in May, the Mets have been all over the road.
Johan Santana is dominant, but John Maine, Mike Pelfrey and Oliver Perez struggle… Then, Pelfrey gets it together, and Santana falls apart… David Wright hits .350, but strikes out a ton… The starters are good, the bullpen stinks… The bullpen turns it on, the starters all get hurt… The team hits, but guys make base-running mistakes… The ball is fielded cleanly, then air-mailed over first… One guy comes off the disabled list, another guy goes on… He’s healthy today, then needs an MRI… and so on, and so on.
The Mets have 20 games between now and the All-Star break, 19 of which are against teams at or above .500, including the Dodgers and Phillies.
