“With all due respect General Grant, you can’t burn down Atlanta with a match!” -William Tecumseh Sherman*
And yet, the Mets keep trying to disprove a centuries old fact. It’ll never happen … not when in a game that kicks off the biggest series of the year, the team looked as flat as they ever have. Between Luis Castillo not being able to turn a double play, Matt Diaz taking extra bases, and the team as a whole sitting in a dark dugout looking like their favorite television show just got cancelled, the Mets have taken inexcusable to a whole new level.
They knew it. They all knew it. And this is what they come up with? A complete waste of three hours of all of our lives? Is this what it’s come to? If so, just let me know so I can DVR Shark Week and watch that for six weeks before Jets season starts.
Somebody tweeted back in May or June … and I wish I could find it … that the Mets playing crisp baseball with better fundamentals (fundies, for you kids at home) can be attributed to Snoop Manuel. Well who to you blame Monday night on? Who do you blame the last 24 games on where the Mets are 7-17? Or the last 39 at 14-25? Or 1-5 against Ari-f***ing-zona? Who? How can this team not be ready to play? This team is dying a slow death that Bill Cosby can’t even refute.
It’s probably equal parts talent and effort (lack of both). In which case, everybody is to blame from ownership on down. Everybody. Gimme that match … I know what to burn.
*Sherman never said this.
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