This was by far the worst season I can remember going through. Yeah the Mets might have been marginally worse in 1993 but at 12 years old I didn’t live and die with the team like I did as an older gent. We can sit here and debate who was wrong, what was wrong, who is good on the team, who is not good but the bottom line is… this was an AWFUL season without many bright spots. The off-season is upon us and oddly this latest Reyes news has me optimistic. Knowing he will be back somehow makes me feel like the team will once again be competitive. It will be up to many people if we will be good in 2010. Fred, Omar, Jerry (if he is back), players bouncing back (Maine, Perez, Pelfrey) and players improving (Murphy, Fernando etc). The off-season is the one time we can dream big. The money spent won’t decide the future of this team. The decisions made by the front office and the current players on the team will. Nobody deserves a pat on the back for 2009. Nobody was so good that they deserve a “pass”. Maybe Wright’s bad year, or Reyes’s lost year will spark a hunger in them never before seen (not questioning either player, they rank #2 and #4 on my favorite Mets of all-time). 2010 will be better… I promise.
Oct 03
I’m done being angry and so should you
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6 comments
stickguy
10/3/2009-10:18am at 10:18 am (UTC -4)
Yeah, this was a poor year. Just one of those train wrecks you write off and move on from.
But anger? Maybe I am not a big enough fan (though my post count doesn’t support that notion), but I just don’t take it personally when thy have a bad year, or make a dumb move.
But, I also don’t think it makes me a better person when the team wins, so good thing I didn’t become a yankee fan instead!
stickguy
10/3/2009-10:20am at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
Also, I do agree that the prospects for 2010 are not as dire as many people seem to think. A few reasonably intelligent moves, and better health next season, and they will be wright back in the thick of things.
teams and dynastys don’t last forever, and it’s not like the Phils right now ae setting the world on fire. So why can’t the Mets take the division back in 2010? Unless the Braves get there first…
metsfan4decades
10/3/2009-12:20pm at 12:20 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, there is no way that Phils team is a dynasty. Their BP is awful and they’re stuck with a closer who flat out stunk this year.
Their SP staff is mediocre. They’ve got an aging LF. Their SS had one really good offensive year, and it wasn’t this year either.
Their 2nd baseman is extremely streaky and he’s batting like .200 for Sep. The only one who really stands out on that team to me is Howard.
As they stand now, they don’t worry me next year. But the Braves do. Some really good, young pitching. Add some more offense in the off season and they’re gonna be tough….
metsfan4decades
10/3/2009-12:17pm at 12:17 pm (UTC -4)
I think I was done being angry – or maybe angry isn’t the best word – I’ll go for dejected….back right after the All Star Break. That’s about the time I think we all realized Beltran and Reyes weren’t making it back and we had no shot in hell.
I’ve been a Met fan since ’68. Watched some pretty awful teams. But as a whole, this was the worst season for me as coming in expectations were so high. In April, even when we had most of the team, play as a whole wasn’t looking too good. May was pretty good. June was god awful and the final nail was Beltran going down.
Expectations were so high coming into this season and dashed so quick – I think that’s what makes it the worst. I’ve never seen anything like the injuries we’ve had this year.
Here’s to 2010.
GravediggerHebner
10/3/2009-12:38pm at 12:38 pm (UTC -4)
I was never angry. Disappointed, yes. Angry, no. To qualify that for those who don’t know, I’m not one who runs around screaming that “Omar is stupid!” or “the Wilpons are cheap!” in case that sheds some light on my lack of anger.
The owners, the front office, the coaches and the players are all, like me and you, human beings with faults and imperfections, who have high points and low points. Baseball is a sport that revels in failure. Hitters that fail 7 out of 10 times at bat are stars. Even the Yankees for whom the pennant is the sole definition of success have by their own lofty standards failed 73% of the time (26 pennants in 95 years – they took the name Yankees in 1913).
I am not angry at the 2009 Mets. Why should I be? Because they have 5 or 6 months off from work every year? Because they make much more money than I ever will? Because they date models, live in nice homes and appear regularly on TV? I don’t see any reason to be angry with them.
They suffered historical injuries that contributed to a futile baseball season. But for me sports are a distraction from those realities of daily life which are unpleasant. When sports, like this 2009 Mets team, fail to distract and in some ways mirror those unpleasant realities, I’m just disappointed, not angry. Disappointed that my distraction failed to distract. Next year life’s unpleasant daily realities will almost certainly still exist, and the Mets will get another chance to distract me from them.
Kingman 26
10/3/2009-6:09pm at 6:09 pm (UTC -4)
Extremely well said.
Thank you.