What the Blood Clot?
Hey everyone, A Friend of Mr. Glass' here. Sip will be in later with today's post, but before we get to that I just wanted to share some thoughts on the Mets' season, as seen through the prism of the situation surrounding Tom Glavine right now.
When the season ends and the Mets find themselves winners of between 95 and 100 games, as seems likely, a lot of people are going to look down their nose and say it doesn't count because we play in the National League.
As if the team on the other side of the diamond is the only adversity a team faces.
Look, I know all teams have injuries, I know the Mets are not unique in this regard. But what other team has seen four of their five starters lost for such significant swaths of the season? What other team that lost four of their five starters also lost their best reliever?
Do you remember what our rotation looked like on Opening Day? Pedro, Glavine, Trachsel, Zambrano, Bannister.
Bannister and Zambrano were lost in the space of a week. Pedro has spent significant time on the disabled list, about a month and a half by the time he returns from his current stint on the shelf. Now Glavine might be lost for the season; his career could be over.
I'll say it again, we're not the only team with injuries. The Yankees lost Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield (of course, it's a lot easier to lose two 100-RBI guys when you've got two other 100-RBI guys, and when you've got the financial leeway to acquire a third, but I digress).
The guys we've brought in to replace our depleted starting corps have been awful (Jose Lima), bad (Jeremi Gonzalez), OK (Mike Pelfrey), sometimes-brilliant (John Maine) and some mix of the four (Orlando Hernandez).
And yet in spite of it all the Mets continue to steamroll through to October. Weak league? Yeah. Gutsy ballclub? You better believe it.
A lot of people in the papers are gonna tell you we just don't have the pitching to see us through a playoff run. I'm not gonna lie, it won't be easy with a rotation of Pedro(?), El Duque, Trachsel/Maine. But I'll concede nothing beyond that.
If the wheels were going to fall off the Mets express, they would have by now. Our team has found ways to win all year long, no matter the adversity, no matter who's been out there on the mound.
Try to remind yourself of that the next time someone tries to tell you how easy a go of it these Mets have had.
- A.F.O.M.G.
When the season ends and the Mets find themselves winners of between 95 and 100 games, as seems likely, a lot of people are going to look down their nose and say it doesn't count because we play in the National League.As if the team on the other side of the diamond is the only adversity a team faces.
Look, I know all teams have injuries, I know the Mets are not unique in this regard. But what other team has seen four of their five starters lost for such significant swaths of the season? What other team that lost four of their five starters also lost their best reliever?
Do you remember what our rotation looked like on Opening Day? Pedro, Glavine, Trachsel, Zambrano, Bannister.
Bannister and Zambrano were lost in the space of a week. Pedro has spent significant time on the disabled list, about a month and a half by the time he returns from his current stint on the shelf. Now Glavine might be lost for the season; his career could be over.I'll say it again, we're not the only team with injuries. The Yankees lost Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield (of course, it's a lot easier to lose two 100-RBI guys when you've got two other 100-RBI guys, and when you've got the financial leeway to acquire a third, but I digress).
The guys we've brought in to replace our depleted starting corps have been awful (Jose Lima), bad (Jeremi Gonzalez), OK (Mike Pelfrey), sometimes-brilliant (John Maine) and some mix of the four (Orlando Hernandez).
And yet in spite of it all the Mets continue to steamroll through to October. Weak league? Yeah. Gutsy ballclub? You better believe it.A lot of people in the papers are gonna tell you we just don't have the pitching to see us through a playoff run. I'm not gonna lie, it won't be easy with a rotation of Pedro(?), El Duque, Trachsel/Maine. But I'll concede nothing beyond that.
If the wheels were going to fall off the Mets express, they would have by now. Our team has found ways to win all year long, no matter the adversity, no matter who's been out there on the mound.
Try to remind yourself of that the next time someone tries to tell you how easy a go of it these Mets have had.
- A.F.O.M.G.
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 10:27 AM
1 Comments:
bravo AFOMG. I'm tired of the pessimists looking for reason after reason why the Mets will fail.
I can hardly wait for SM's post this afternoon which not only proclaims this season over, but figures out a reason why the next 10 are ruined as well.
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