As my brother-in-law is sure to point out, the Red Sox managed to hold up their end of my bold prediction (and then some). It's just my Mets that spoiled it all.
Congratulations to the Saux. Enjoy another year as World Champions. We'll just have to try it all over again next year!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
So much regret...
With the end of the Mets season - with the UNBELIEVABLE COLLAPSE to end the Mets season - this blog was rendered moot. Obviously, with the Mets missing the playoffs (due in part to a Tom Glavine meltdown) there can be no rematch of the Mets and Red Sox in the fall classic this season.
A lot of my fellow Mets fans are quick to jump on Glavine for the final loss of the season. That's to be expected. Yes, it was a big game and Mets had to win it. They needed Glavine to step up and take charge the way John Maine (who's definitely the ace of the staff at this point) did on Saturday. But we fans are quick to forget that if the Mets had won any of a SLEW of winnable games that Glavine's meltdown would have meant nothing.
The Mets failed to sweep in Cinncinati and Pittsburgh. No offense to those franchise's fans, but those are two awful teams. Come out of those towns with a sweep and the Phillies are playing golf right now. Even more recently, the Mets lost one in Florida after coming back late because Jorge Sosa let up 3 runs and inexplicably stayed in the game to pitch the 10th where be promptly gave up one more.
There's a feeling in baseball that "it's only April". Well those games count the same as all the others. You've got to win as many games as you can, whenever you can. You can't sit back and say "we'll lose a bunch in April and May and have a fantastic July and August". You can see how well that's worked for the A's in recent history. If that theory worked, Barry Zito would have a handful of rings instead of a big paycheck and no hope in San Fran.
Well, nothing to do now but root for the Sox and wait till next year...
A lot of my fellow Mets fans are quick to jump on Glavine for the final loss of the season. That's to be expected. Yes, it was a big game and Mets had to win it. They needed Glavine to step up and take charge the way John Maine (who's definitely the ace of the staff at this point) did on Saturday. But we fans are quick to forget that if the Mets had won any of a SLEW of winnable games that Glavine's meltdown would have meant nothing.
The Mets failed to sweep in Cinncinati and Pittsburgh. No offense to those franchise's fans, but those are two awful teams. Come out of those towns with a sweep and the Phillies are playing golf right now. Even more recently, the Mets lost one in Florida after coming back late because Jorge Sosa let up 3 runs and inexplicably stayed in the game to pitch the 10th where be promptly gave up one more.
There's a feeling in baseball that "it's only April". Well those games count the same as all the others. You've got to win as many games as you can, whenever you can. You can't sit back and say "we'll lose a bunch in April and May and have a fantastic July and August". You can see how well that's worked for the A's in recent history. If that theory worked, Barry Zito would have a handful of rings instead of a big paycheck and no hope in San Fran.
Well, nothing to do now but root for the Sox and wait till next year...
Monday, October 1, 2007
Apologies from the Mets...
"Dear Mets Fan:
"All of us at the Mets are bitterly disappointed in failing to achieve our collective goal of building upon last year's success. We did not meet our organization's expectations -- or yours.
"Everyone at Shea feels the same range of emotions as you -- our loyal fans -- and we know we have let you down. We wanted to thank you for your record-breaking support of our team this year.
"Equally important, Ownership will continue its commitment in providing the resources necessary to field a championship team. Omar will be meeting with Ownership shortly to present his plan on addressing our shortcomings so that we can achieve our goal of winning championships in 2008 and beyond.
"You deserve better results."
"All of us at the Mets are bitterly disappointed in failing to achieve our collective goal of building upon last year's success. We did not meet our organization's expectations -- or yours.
"Everyone at Shea feels the same range of emotions as you -- our loyal fans -- and we know we have let you down. We wanted to thank you for your record-breaking support of our team this year.
"Equally important, Ownership will continue its commitment in providing the resources necessary to field a championship team. Omar will be meeting with Ownership shortly to present his plan on addressing our shortcomings so that we can achieve our goal of winning championships in 2008 and beyond.
"You deserve better results."
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