Take This Week
Nobody has a read on this season yet. Do you want to try to see if you can get a read on a week of the season? Consider this past week. Last Tuesday, David Wright wins an exciting game for us in the eleventh with this wonderful, old-fashioned increasingly rare baseball thing called a clutch hit. Then we get clobbered to the point of absurdity by one of the worst teams in baseball. Our next game is a gem, a perfect-in-every-respect victory against what may be the best team in baseball. The next day our relievers get jumped on and we suffer another double-digit loss. The day after that, we pull out a close beautifully-pitched game with three runs in the ninth. The next game is blown as Ollie Perez gives up a home run to everyone who wants one.
Remember how last year was so maddening because there would be a good stretch and then a bad stretch and then a good stretch and then a bad stretch, etc? This year is like that too, except this year the stretches are nine innings long.
Choose whatever tired metaphor you want: see saw, roller coaster, Jekyll and Hyde, Abbott and Costello. Personally I run out of metaphors when I look at the Mets.
I just look and I watch and I sit there and I don’t know. I say that I’m just going to have fun. And maybe I will. I’m just not entirely sure at this point what I am supposed to be having fun about.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I have this odd feeling that this year is going to follow the same pattern as last year in the following way:
The first 2 months of 2007 were just like 2006. Then, in June, it all went to hell. I have this weird feeling that this year is going to follow suit. The first two months will be maddeningly inconsistent, like the better part of 2007, and then come June 1st, the Mets will become a different team, and they will really turn it on.
I’m not basing that on anything concrete. Just a feeling.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I have a similar feeling, Anthony. And I don’t base it on anything concrete because there is nothing concrete to base it on. Nor are there concrete reasons to expect a disaster. We are in an abstract universe.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I can’t seem to get a real feeling at this point…..but right now it feels more ominous than I would like.
Nice meeting you at your talk on Monday….
May 8th, 2008 at 4:21 am
The way the Mets have played this year can best be described as inconsistent, but the bullpen reminds me of the old nursery rhyme. To paraphrase a part of the rhyme:
“When they were good, they were very very good, but when they were bad they were horrid”.
I truly hope this can be corrected very soon.