On Tap Tonight: Nationals in for three.
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The Brewers aren’t that bad a team. Losing a series to them is feasible.
The Nationals, however, are horrible. This is a team they should handle. Then again, they should have handled them last year.
The Mets say they put 2007 behind them, but how they are playing out of the gate says otherwise.
The Mets aren’t a championship calibre team in a funk we know will snap out of it. They are a team that didn’t make the playoffs that isn’t playing .500 ball.
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has anyone else noticed that the guys producing on a consistent basis weren't here last september? yep… those guys have certainly put '07 behind them…
good observation jay
We also should have beaten these guys down the stretch in 1998 when we were going for the wild card. And didn't. Is Duaner Sanchez going to pitch in this series?
As Willie says this is the test in front of them. They should sweep. If the Mets are the team they say they are they should stomp all over these guys.
If they lose the series the fans have a right to be worried.
Until Willie is gone, this team is doomed to repeat the same failures of last year (horrible bullpen usage, no killer instict, total complacency, etc.)
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."-Karl Marx
Welcome to the Farce, gentlemen.
Yes. Jay nice point.
The Nats are not very good, but they handed it to us last year. If the Mets do not sweep or take 2 of 3, there will be riots. As there should be.
On Jackie Robinson nite it would be befitting that the Mets play a clean, crisp, hard-nosed game.
On the other hand, if they play like Sunday maybe Jackie will turn in his grave in disgust.
Just to back up the point I made earlier, I combined the stats of Church, Pagan and Schneider vs. Wright, Delgado and Beltran thus far. I excluded Reyes and Castillo because of the games missed. Here's what you get:
Church, Pagan, Schneider:
.326 avg.
.416 obp.
24 RBI
Delgado, Wright, Beltran:
.278 avg.
.398 obp.
18 RBI
We obviously know the capabilities of that latter three, but let's be honest here, this is THEIR team, and they need to take control. If you're going to blow smoke all winter and tell me you're over September, then start playing like it. Can Willie start acting like he wants to be there, too? In mid-March, I really didn't expect to be this upset just a dozen games into the season.
Pitching, defense, and smart play. That is what wins and loses games. They may never hit great in the clutch, but it's Wright throwing the ball into the dugout, Delgado throwing it at Chase Utley's back, Perez blowing a 4-run lead, and Brady Clark getting thrown out at home when he never should have gone that loses games. The Mets scored enough runs last year to win the division. It was everything else that they didn't do enough of.
It would be a really really good thing for the Mets if they sweep. I don't think winning 2 of 3 is good enough. Just for the fact of how bad the Nats have been doing, and revenge for what the Nats did to the Mets at the end of 07, the Mets need to sweep this series.
Baby steps, Steve (The Original), baby steps.
JM: I don't think i'm asking alot. The Nationals are a team that if the Mets are as good as they "think" they are, should sweep. They should feel nothing but the same way.
Absolutely Ny Cuban. You have it exactly correct. Great analysis. So how do we start a dump Willie movement?
Steve (The Original),
I don't think you are asking a lot either, but as you and I both know, this team has failed time and again to win games that it should win. Just b/c you aren't asking a lot doesn't mean the Mets will be able to do what you are asking. It wasn't much to ask to beat the Phils 1 time out of 7 down the stretch last season either, but they couldn't do it. It wasn't much to ask to play .500 ball against the also rans of the division in September, but they couldn't do it. At this point, any sign – let alone a sweep – that they are heading in the right direction would make me feel better than I do right now.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the Phillies have lost series both to the Nats and Mets, and are a game under .500, yet I don't see nearly as much pessimism over on their side as I do over here.
In any case, we have to take 2/3 at least from the Nats because they just are not a good team…
Josh: Probably because our (the fans) expectations are much higher. And as long as they continue to play like the last half of 2007 Mets, there is going to be pessimism.