Everybody should pause for a second and think about what they would have thought about the Mets if Castillo had caught the ball and the Mets had won that extraordinary game.
My point is that if you would have thought that, if the play had been made, then there is not enough of a reason for you to feel this, because the play was not made. If the Mets are so close to that, they cannot be this.
I do think that Jerry Manuel should give vent to some of the disgust that the fans of the Mets are feeling. I do think that any mental error, or even any egregious fielding or baserunning error, from this point forward, should be punished with contempt and a couple of days out of the line-up. I do think the Mets need to be smacked upside the head.
But I don’t think that we should give up on them. I don’t think there is rottenness. The Mets are what they’ve been the last three years: a good team right on the line. There is more reason to be happy than unhappy with the way they are playing this year, given their calamities. The season isn’t over. And because we fans are bleeding from wounds too numerous to count at this point doesn’t mean we aren’t going to make it through. Howl. But pause.
i missed seeing the play. but i don’t know why everyone is jumping off the Whitestone bridge right now over this. Luis Castillo is one of the few players still in the lineup in the same position he was at on Opening Day. In the era of Three Stooges medicine, that’s quite good. I don’t think the Mets are more than a streaky .500 team, but last night didn’t bring me to that conclusion. They blew it, move on. It happens. They do, and they will. Just don’t let it happen again.
Just win today.
Just win today.
Just win today.
Well Anthony, you got your wish. Let’s hope they can go for two wins in a row.
Yes!
They will. I have faith in Johan, and I have faith that the Mets are determined not to be embarrassed again.
There is faith….and then there is reason. And something ain’t right with Johan at the present time. I think he’ll be OK, but I am pretty grateful I didn’t scalp tix for that Hindenburgh Disaster of a game today. They may have been deterimed not to be embarassed again, but determination will only take one so far, against a power laden line up for the opposition.
Do something, Omar. This situation will not improve by osmosis.