Links: The “I Know What’s Wrong With The Mets” Edition
Fifteen games into the season, I’m already tired of dealing with all the articles/blog posts about what the Mets need to fix. To illustrate my point, here’s just a sampling of what people have written just over the past few days regarding what’s wrong with the New York Mets:
- The team is incable of hitting with runners in scoring position (4/20)
- The team has no “gangstas” (4/22)
- The team lacks a “killer instinct” to “finish strong” (4/24)
- Offense is “out of sync” (4/23)
- Team brass wanting to wipe Doc Gooden’s autograph from the stadium wall (4/20)
- Pitchers not pitching deep into games (4/22)
- Lack of a 38-year old pitcher who had a 5.61 ERA in 2008 (4/24)
- Gary Sheffield is “causing confusion on the roster“(4/24)
- Pitchers need to be demoted (4/24)
- Not enough stolen bases (4/21)
- Tickets are way too expensive (4/21)
- Everything (4/23)
- They’re in “passive mode” (4/24)
- The outfield wall of Citi Field should be blue (4/21)
April 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
How about “they just aren’t good enough”? How about “they are realizing that Randolph wasn’t the issue”? Another season will end with them looking up at the Phillies, maybe even the Braves.
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April 25th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I don’t think the Mets are in big trouble yet, actually.
There hitting has been good so far and the only real problem has been the starting rotation behind Johan Santana – all four of them have ERAs of at least 7.30.
But I don’t think that John Maine, Mike Pelfrey and Oliver Perez are really that bad, so they just need to keep running them out there. They’ve had some bad luck with home runs so far.
But it’s clear Livan Hernandez really has no business being on a major league team anymore.
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April 27th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Nick, I think they’ll be fine too (by which I mean they’ll at least be a couple games in or out of a playoff spot). I just thought it was kind of funny/ridiculous how many aspects of the organization are being criticized so soon.
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