NEW YORK, NY – The Mets Win!!! The Mets Win!!! The Mets Win!!! These goosebump-inducing words from long, long ago still resonate for us tortured, wounded, defensive Mets fans. They belong to radio legend Bob Murphy after the Amazins stunned the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series.
CUT TO PRESENT
We may never hear them again. Okay, maybe that’s a SLIGHT exaggeration/dramatization of current events, but its REALLY HARD to lose 9 in a row in Major League Baseball. And I ain’t no mathemusician but the multiple effect of having the highest payroll in baseball MUST make this more like a 20-game schneid. Indeed, the last time they bumbled, fumbled, faffed and farted their way to a 9-game skid was 2004. That team boasted the likes of an aging/suddenly thin Mike Piazza at 1B, Jose Reyes (who tore his hamstring) shifting to 2B to accommodate Kaz “The Wrong” Matsui, and a long-in-the-tooth Todd Zeille. Mike Cameron let the team in dingers but hit only .231.
A young David Wright had a decent year, while the pitching staff was old and poopy. Al Leiter (the only starter above .500), Tom “I’m Sorry I Left Atlanta” Glavine and Steve “Human Rain Delay” Trachsel (Tall Mattt’s doppelganger) as the only starters to give the team a shot. Suffice to say, they went 71-91 on the season.
PREDICTION
I’m going out on a limb here to say definitively and without question, the New York Mets will win again. Eventually. Hopefully. Maybe. Probably…
No, dammit!
They will win! Heck, they maybe even win 71 times this year, just like they did in 2004!
Ya Gotta Bereave Believe!
Feel free to opine below and come back tomorrow for Jumpin’ Jacob Sternberg!
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