One bad game isn’t going to make me give up on the season. And I hope you don’t take this to mean that I’m throwing in the towel on this thing, not even as bad as Clayton Kershaw made the Mets look. But I do want to tell you this: I’ve always said that if this team finishes anywhere near .500 I’d be ecstatic. And now that the Mets will face six more all-stars in the next six games … without Jose Reyes … and with new-found questions over whether Dillon Gee is nothing more than a five inning pitcher, this might be the ebb that counteracts the flow they’ve been on. (Or is that the flow that counteracts the ebb? Damn, this is why I couldn’t get into the “really good” schools.)
Two up and five down over this stretch (and they’ve started 0-1 thanks to Kershaw) would put them right at .500. And it’s possible with two of the all-stars being Cole Hamels, who they’ve beaten from pillar to post, and Ryan Vogelsong who doesn’t seem quite as impossible as the rest of them. And if they get lucky against Lincecum, Cain, or the other two “animals coming in from Philly” (you know, Terry should have been more specific), then more power to them. I’m not losing faith that it could happen. But if it doesn’t, and they only take two, then I’ll just be grateful that they don’t come out of this gauntlet completely tattered and torn. If the Mets come out of this still on the right side, or right at .500, I’ll consider it a fortunate ending.
That said, I’ll still find things to irrationally complain about that in the long run don’t matter, like Greg Gibson completely spitting the bit on the first run which should have never scored (Uribe was clearly out), Ruben Tejada stealing third down 6-0 with two outs in the eighth (the brains have to match the talent, boys) and most of all, Snoop Manuel on MLB network talking about the Mets earlier in the day and telling us all to be concerned when you’re playing players out of position. Umm, Jeremy Reed didn’t see a look of concern on your face when you put him at first base in 2009 in Los Angeles. Why start now?
Sigh. Nice to know that much like Eliot Spitzer, Manuel can turn a massive screw job into a television gig.
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