Opinion: Time Not on Mets Side
As much as I want to stay positive and believe that the Mets can turn this thing around, I just feel that this season will end the same way it has 45 other times for them- without a championship.
Just saying the word “championship” makes it seem so far-fetched after how this team has been performing this year. Yes, the injuries are the biggest reason for this, but I feel that if the Wilpons and Omar Minaya continue to wait for the cavalry to return, this season will become a lost cause.
We’re at the halfway point, and anything can still happen. I hope they make me eat my words, but there has been very little to be excited about this season. If the Mets are going to make a big move, they need to do it now because time is not on their side.
Realistically though, they won’t make a big move for the likes of Matt Holliday. They will wait for Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and Carlos Delgado to return and see what happens. The only player of those three that I would consider trading would be Delgado, but the value they’d get in return probably wouldn’t justify a move.
I haven’t given up, and will always root for them to win in good times and in bad. But I wait, as does the front office, to see what will pan out. As time slips away however, the chances of a playoff berth rapidly dissolve.
