I'm hoping they don't make it into the post-season.
This has gone beyond agonizing or embarrassing. This is just sad. Being swept by the NATIONALS? The lowest scoring team in the league and they're averaging nine runs a game? What's going to happen when they go up against teams that actually don't suck?
If somehow within the next week they get their act together and actually capture the league championship rather than back into it because the Phillies lose, then maybe...MAYbe. But as it stands now, the Mets missing out on postseason play would be a mercy killing.
PAD
Posted by Peter David at September 27, 2007 08:29 AM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingVery similar to what I was thinking last night: "The way they've been playing in September, they don't deserve to make it to the post-season." I love some of those kids, but they just seem exhausted. Particularly the pitchers.
I hear you, being a Minnesota Twin fan This is almost a yearly event, well except for 87 and 91
Being a Cubs fan, I'll just say that your opinion, PAD, comes across as nothing more than a ridiculous level of entitlement that many have come to expect from New York sports fans. :)
As a Phillies fan, I also agree that I hope the Mets don't make it to the postseason.
This is a weird Phillies team. We have NO pitching- PAD, you could have been a reliever even before you lost all your weight. But there's hustle and leadership and clutch hitting. It's one half perfect ballclub, one half historically bad Phillies team. If the Mets and Padres were better, we'd have no shot. But somehow, we do.
Of course, there are only two (maybe three) teams with a right to a ridiculous level of entitlement.
The St. Louis Cardinals haven't finished dead last in the National League since 1918. The Boston Red Sox haven't finished dead last in the American League since 1933. Every other team in the American League has won the Hoover Awards at some point since 1973. Every other team in the National League has done it since 1982. (Except the Rockies, who haven't been around very long, so they have an * next to them in my mind.)
It’s not so much being swept by the Nationals that has been so painful and ignominious - it’s having the lead at various points over the last two weeks or so, significant leads at that, only to watch them dissipate like smoke!
I have come to the conclusion over the last few days that Willie isn’t great when it comes to handling pitchers. It’s something I felt for a long time but, watching him burn through arms (especially down the stretch) has been alarming to say the least.
Instead of bringing in a pitcher to face a batter or two to get the perfect lefty/righty matchup - just leave a guy in for more than an inning!
They’re losing anyway and the only thing he is managing to do is burn out all his arms. The game they did win over the weekend where he bought in Schoeneweis to face one batter instead of letting Sele just finish the game underscores what I’m talking about.
I don’t know if I agree with you about the postseason though because it seems like more than a few teams have backed into the World Series over the last couple of years and done quite well.
As a fellow Mets fan, I have to reluctantly agree.
Very reluctantly as the Yankee fans in my office are already sharpening their knives and looking at me (and other Met fans) with glee in their eyes.
This could be a very long winter...
It's for sure the Yankees are playing much better than the Mets. But as a fan I still want to see them get into the playoffs, because it's possible Willie will get his act together (as will the bullpen he's so abused.
Must admit, though, that if the Cubs make it in, I'll be able to root for four teams (Mets, Yankees, Cubs, Indians) and against two (the Red Sox and the LosAnagelesAngelsofAngelaheim) really easily. Which almost guarantees the Sox or Angels getting to and winning the World Series :-P
As the lone Tigers fan again among a bunch of NYC cowboys, I understand what you're talking about when you ask for a "mercy killing". We surprised EVERYBODY last year. Even Steve Sanders and his Generation Bowling Tour. I BLAIM HIM!!!!
What does Sanders have to do with the Tigers' not making the playoffs? Last year while Detroit was beating Oakland and the hated Yankees, Sanders (a product of Long Island, New York) was trying to hold a seniors bowling tournament here in "The bowling capital of the world". The poor turnout for the pro-am and to watch the tournament was blaimed on the Tigers' playoff run, according to Sanders. If his damm Generation Bowling Tour wasn't bankrupt, the Tigers might have made the playoffs just to spight Sanders. Just wait 'til next year. :-p
Later
Personally, I think the real tragedy of the 07 Baseball season is Those Damn Yankees and them swinging back up in the past few months. I still get the feeling they'll get hosed on the postseason though. The baseball universe should right itself once more.
Go BoSox.
as a cubs fan, I have to say there is no shame in backing into a post season birth :D
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As I come from the suburbs of Washington, DC, I'm supposed to be a Nats fan, but I just can't be - The Senators went away too long ago, and this team is so lacking in players that each victory just seems like a cruel joke on the opponent. The recent victories over the Mets just show this is probably not the Mets' year, and not that anything is going right for the Nats.
Better luck to the Mets next year. It's going to take quite a bit more time for the Nats.
Having watched the Cardinals back into the playoffs last year -- and beating my head against the wall as a loyal Cards fan -- I thought that they were going to be toast in the playoffs.
Remarkably, they weren't. :)
It's amazing what can happen when a team comes together and gets hot at the same time.
From National Review's Erica Stalnecker comes this fan penned ditty:
Beat the Mets, beat the Mets,
Last place teams defeat the Mets.
Hanging sliders, minor-league speed,
Guaranteed to waste a seven run lead.
Because the Met bullpen keeps fading away,
October baseball won't be at Shea.
Mota...Sosa...,
Every game is now in doubt.
Can anyone who's on this staff,
Get three men out?
And the collapse is complete.
Phillies in the playoffs, Mets enjoying October from home.
Wow.
A Cubs fan living in Florida, I decided to attend a baseball game between the Marlins and Mets a few months back. Okay, it was not my decision. My wife bought the tickets as a birthday present.
Natch, the audibly purported attendance was a wholesome 20,000. My good friend and I looked around and could see that there were no more than a few thousand. And the majority of those who attended were Mets fans (Home field advantage?) as they cheered their team to victory.
Not long ago, the pitiful Marlins had again 10,000 tickets sold but only 375 in attendance for a Marlins-Nationals game. And 1 fan was actually kicked out for arguing with the umpire thanks in part to a lack of white noise created by large crowds.
Be thankful Mets fans.
If that's not enough, then feel free to borrow our most popular and historic utterance: "There is always next year."