Stevey Trachsel No More
Despite some late inning heroics, the Mets did not win Sunday. Truth is, I'm OK with that.
On Saturday I was sitting at a friend's house watching the doubleheader with a visiting Kenny From Camp. Since the day we met six glorious years ago when we decided it would be a good idea to do football tackling drills in a friend's dorm room, the K-Man and I have always had the most friendly rivalry you could imagine.
Most times, no matter what, we would disagree. Not this time.
It was one beautiful moment on Saturday, about 3:00 p.m. PT. We both knew.
These Mets are no longer the Steve Trachsel Mets.
What do I mean by this?
Steve Trachsel joined the Mets in 2001, making him our longest tenured Amazin'. Since the day he got here, he has been well, blah.
He is everything you expect out of an average starting pitcher. Do you have confidence when he takes the mound? Nope.
Do you think there is a shot when he pitches? Sure.
And is there the possibility that this guy could pull off a couple of wins in a row and maybe even put together a decent season? Read 2003, when Shitty won 16 games.
But at the same time, is there ever a chance that this guy will be great? Of course not.
Since 2000, Steve Trachsel was a perfect metaphor for the Mets. They were sluggish, boring and not too interesting. They were average most days and showed hope ever so rarely that it never really got you going.
They were the Old Mets.
Not anymore.
When Lastings Miledge drove Armando Benitez's offering out in the 10th inning, a new era officially began. These were truly the New Mets.
Is there a Met fan in the world who could see us tying a game up against Armando Benitez a year ago? If so, please find me them.
The fact is, for much of the new millennium the Mets were losers. Things that were supposed to happen didn't.
Big names came to us to suck.
Our rivals always beat us.
And players that sucked for us always outplayed us when they came back.
But then there was young Lastings. His homerun, which 20 minutes later proved meaningless to the game, was a symbol for what this team has become.
This is truly a new era of Mets baseball with a new guard. We truly have a young and exciting core.
Between Wright and Reyes and now Miledge we have 3 guys that will be Mets for 30 years combined. Take a look at the 2005 roster and I think it would take about 8 guys to fill 30 years.
These guys are ours and it is great.
We are no longer the team of misfits and underachievers. We are a young core with star veterans. We have a FORMULA.
So when Lastings Miledge greeted the Right Field box fans with a row of high fives, KFC and I couldn't help but die of laughter.
Kenny compared it to a WWF wrestler coming out and greeting the crowd. I was buying.
But, I was buying nothing more than what happened directly after Miledge's dong.
I'm sorry if I have been drowning this concept away, but did any of you guys happen to catch Reyes and Miledge's elaborate handshake in the dugout?
This guy has been a Met for 4 days and we already have this.
4 days down, 10 years to go.
Goodbye Trachsel. And goodbye the feeling of being boring and average.
Hello, Wright, Reyes, Miledge, Hernandez, Pelfrey, Heilman and the feeling that we can win games like today. And the weight is slowly being removed from our shoulders.
It's a nice thing
VCD,
SM
On Saturday I was sitting at a friend's house watching the doubleheader with a visiting Kenny From Camp. Since the day we met six glorious years ago when we decided it would be a good idea to do football tackling drills in a friend's dorm room, the K-Man and I have always had the most friendly rivalry you could imagine.
Most times, no matter what, we would disagree. Not this time.
It was one beautiful moment on Saturday, about 3:00 p.m. PT. We both knew.
These Mets are no longer the Steve Trachsel Mets.
What do I mean by this?
Steve Trachsel joined the Mets in 2001, making him our longest tenured Amazin'. Since the day he got here, he has been well, blah.
He is everything you expect out of an average starting pitcher. Do you have confidence when he takes the mound? Nope.
Do you think there is a shot when he pitches? Sure.
And is there the possibility that this guy could pull off a couple of wins in a row and maybe even put together a decent season? Read 2003, when Shitty won 16 games.
But at the same time, is there ever a chance that this guy will be great? Of course not.
Since 2000, Steve Trachsel was a perfect metaphor for the Mets. They were sluggish, boring and not too interesting. They were average most days and showed hope ever so rarely that it never really got you going.
They were the Old Mets.
Not anymore.
When Lastings Miledge drove Armando Benitez's offering out in the 10th inning, a new era officially began. These were truly the New Mets.
Is there a Met fan in the world who could see us tying a game up against Armando Benitez a year ago? If so, please find me them.
The fact is, for much of the new millennium the Mets were losers. Things that were supposed to happen didn't.
Big names came to us to suck.
Our rivals always beat us.
And players that sucked for us always outplayed us when they came back.
But then there was young Lastings. His homerun, which 20 minutes later proved meaningless to the game, was a symbol for what this team has become.
This is truly a new era of Mets baseball with a new guard. We truly have a young and exciting core.
Between Wright and Reyes and now Miledge we have 3 guys that will be Mets for 30 years combined. Take a look at the 2005 roster and I think it would take about 8 guys to fill 30 years.
These guys are ours and it is great.
We are no longer the team of misfits and underachievers. We are a young core with star veterans. We have a FORMULA.
So when Lastings Miledge greeted the Right Field box fans with a row of high fives, KFC and I couldn't help but die of laughter.
Kenny compared it to a WWF wrestler coming out and greeting the crowd. I was buying.
But, I was buying nothing more than what happened directly after Miledge's dong.
I'm sorry if I have been drowning this concept away, but did any of you guys happen to catch Reyes and Miledge's elaborate handshake in the dugout?
This guy has been a Met for 4 days and we already have this.
4 days down, 10 years to go.
Goodbye Trachsel. And goodbye the feeling of being boring and average.
Hello, Wright, Reyes, Miledge, Hernandez, Pelfrey, Heilman and the feeling that we can win games like today. And the weight is slowly being removed from our shoulders.
It's a nice thing
VCD,
SM
posted by Sippy Momo at 3:13 AM
3 Comments:
im thinking that endy needs to stay. someone enlighten me on what he did wrong on his last squad to end up being super sub for the mets?he just got a record for 3assists in one game. daily news erroneously said it was cliff floyd that did it...he is timo perez 3.0
oh man this is a good one from the FAN - ed coleman was on and here is the paraphrase of a story he told after fatty and dog asked him about milledge's post-bomb celebration with the crowd.
during the middle of the chartered flight to LA, wagner quietly makes milledge get up and go to the intercom... milledge gets on it and goes, "Hey Billy, this one is for you man!" at which point he then got off the intercom and proceeded to give high fives to every single soul on the plane including the pilots and stewardesses...
problem dissolved(like enter sandman not so long ago)... now let's play some good ball and win this one in 9 for godssake i hate those goddamned los angelinos
I don't know which is sadder - that Trachsel represented the Old Mets, or that Trachsel is the last Old Met left....
I mean, what ever happened to guys who play with one team their whole career? Or even half their career.
It feels like he's only been here a few years. Is there even anyone else on the team who's been there more than 3?
Here's hoping the New Mets are still New Mets when the New Mets are old news....
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