Photo is from today's NY DAILY NEWSPayback is a bitch, as has been said a couple of times, and apparently the bill was due today for the New York Mets, who, in absolute dire need of a win, played just a mere half inning of cringe-worthy baseball in the top of the first inning, and allowed the Florida Marlins 7 runs and granted the visitors their desires to play spoiler to somebody's post-season party. This was more than enough to bury the anemic hitting Mets, yesterday's 13 run outburst obviously the exception to the late September rule.
If the late season meltdown was to be completed to its grim conclusion, then I would've really liked to have had been able to view the SNY broadcast. Gary Cohen's critical analysis of the situation, combined with the commentary from two members of another underachieving team, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling from the 1988 Mets squad, would have preferable to FauxFlorida broadcast team of Rich Waltz, who's not been missed in this area since his days with FauxSportsSeattle, and Tommy Hutton.
Of course the Phillies won today, so they can say that they didn't back into the title (actually, they played extremely good baseball over the last month of the season, and fully deserve credit for being able to get back to the place they found themselves in starting today.)
The boos for the Mets in the bottom of the ninth inning were loudest for shortstop Jose Reyes, who completed the day 0 for 5, and wound up the season hitting .280, a big disappointment as he was hitting over .300 for the majority of the year, though to his credit he did exhibit more patience at the plate and drew almost as many walks this year (77) as he did in the previous two seasons combined (27 in '05 and 53 in '06).
The late season swoon of Reyes isn't the only thing to point to, the age of some key players (Green, Alou, Glavine, Martinez, Delgado, etc) and the mess that the pitching staff became are are other issues to consider, so at first glance, I'd be inclined to say, at this time, that maybe one third of this year's team won't be back next year.
The good news is that I wont' have to spend much time watching baseball this October, and can instead focus on the shortcomings of Tottenham Hotspur in the EPL instead. Oh, life is grand indeed. Sheesh.
coup de grâce for the season
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