Sunday, October 04, 2009
The sorry season is over.
The sorry season is over. The Mets ended the season 70-92, with a three game winning streak. I admitted it was over at All Star Break. Too many injuries. More fanatical Mets fans don't give up so easily.
We were spared the collapses & failures of the past few years. The Mets simply couldn't put a strong lineup at the plate to win all summer & underacheive for us in the fall. Opponents pitched around David Wright, or it was something else, but he didn't hit with power this season. He wasn't the same anyway after he got beaned in August. The poor guy needed a longer vacation.
They still put together some snappy ball here & there, to make Howie Rose get excited on radio, like he does doing hockey play-by-play. The Mets actually put up some good offensive stats as a team. Inexcusable were the too-frequent boneheaded defense & base-running mistakes - that stuff is instinctual. We're not fans of a minor league club. Manager Jerry Manuel deals with these lapses behind closed doors, but there were games where he should have teed off on the team more in his post-game press conferences, they deserved it.
Maybe Citi Field also needs a closer fence at the corners. Move infield out 10 feet. That'll be debated all winter.
The Mets require some work, some changes. They have to find a few big league position players, & another full-time slugger, a scary 5th or 6th guy in the lineup. Management has to handle injuries with more caution. Jerry can stick around, he'll feel the pressure next year. It was a dismal season, but at least this team doesn't have to be broken up & reassembled to be a contender. There were worse failures in the majors, teams with far fewer excuses.
We were spared the collapses & failures of the past few years. The Mets simply couldn't put a strong lineup at the plate to win all summer & underacheive for us in the fall. Opponents pitched around David Wright, or it was something else, but he didn't hit with power this season. He wasn't the same anyway after he got beaned in August. The poor guy needed a longer vacation.
They still put together some snappy ball here & there, to make Howie Rose get excited on radio, like he does doing hockey play-by-play. The Mets actually put up some good offensive stats as a team. Inexcusable were the too-frequent boneheaded defense & base-running mistakes - that stuff is instinctual. We're not fans of a minor league club. Manager Jerry Manuel deals with these lapses behind closed doors, but there were games where he should have teed off on the team more in his post-game press conferences, they deserved it.
Maybe Citi Field also needs a closer fence at the corners. Move infield out 10 feet. That'll be debated all winter.
The Mets require some work, some changes. They have to find a few big league position players, & another full-time slugger, a scary 5th or 6th guy in the lineup. Management has to handle injuries with more caution. Jerry can stick around, he'll feel the pressure next year. It was a dismal season, but at least this team doesn't have to be broken up & reassembled to be a contender. There were worse failures in the majors, teams with far fewer excuses.
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