Read: Daniel Murphy, the Team, Fans & Patience
In a post to Ted Quarters, SNY’s Ted Berg offers up thoughts on Daniel Murphy, and how the team and fans need to proceed when thinking of the future.
According to Berg, it’s about patience, and, “The Mets need to take their time assessing Murphy, Murphy needs to take more pitches at the plate, and Mets fans need to stop taking for granted that the team can piece together a winner without making efforts toward sustainability.”
…i know, ted, but it’s just so damn difficult… i see this conundrum in my e-mail every day: on one hand, Mets fans love home-grown talent, and love the idea of murphy, Fernando Martinez, etc., but, on the other hand, they wan to win, and they demand results and success right now, and so it makes everyone restless when trying to be patient… i have to think the team and Omar Minaya feel this same restlessness everyday…
…on one hand, the team knows that to have a sustainable product it needs to groom a guy like murphy, and live through growing pains in pitchers like Mike Pelfrey, Bobby Parnell and others, which will eventually help them reach a balance in performance for the future… but, at the same time, there are seats to fill, ads to sell, there’s a hype-machine that must be energized in an effort to sell season-ticket plans, right now, and everyday, and patience and living through growing pains is not necessarily the best way to meet these short-term goals…
