Everything's Not Lost: Part XXXIV
Good teams find ways to lose. Lesser teams find ways to win. If you're the better team you don't need to find ways to win because you're better. The weaker team needs to find ways to win because they are worse.
One of my buddies was complaining to me that the Mets "just don't have it." That they don't have the "will" or the "fight" or the "heart" that the Mets had back in 1999. I'm just not buying it. This is baseball, not wrestling or tug of war. Baseball is not about trying hard. It's about talent. The best teams win in baseball. You can't be out coached like in football and you can't not try which is why the NBA regular season is unwatchable.
The 8 teams that make the playoffs in baseball every year are usually the 8 best and healthiest.
So the Mets should get there. They will get there, barring what would be a major choke, in which case 2007 will be remembered 25 years for the wrong reasons.
What is happening now doesn't really have much to do with what will happen come October. Brian Lawrence will not be wearing a Mets uniform in two weeks and hopefully Carlos Delgado will. The bullpen is now cold. Maybe soon, it will get hot.
And the Mets will enter October as the best team in the NL.
So we gotta just take these last couple of days as shitty days and nothing more. Our football seasons appear to be over, the Yankees look like a lock for October and Sip's stomach is feeling even worse thanks to some unfriendly grub over at Chase Field.
But I have to say, I can take some solace in the recent Mets losing ways. It makes these next two weeks of the regular season really interesting. I am all of a sudden watching the Phillies very closely, not because I don't want to see them in October but more so because I am curious to see if they'll get there at all.
Will the Mets see Peavy and Chris Young three times in the NLDS or will it be a Mets/ Dbacks showdwon that I should have guaranteed before the season, considering the course of my life.
We are not yet at freak out mode with the Mets. But maybe its a decent time to sweat.
But to expect the playoffs to be handed to us is to be Yankee fans. We're Mets fans, lets remember that.
Our team will be a loser until we win the last game of the season. And when that day comes, all of our lives will change. That's the beauty of sports.
Vaya,
Sip
One of my buddies was complaining to me that the Mets "just don't have it." That they don't have the "will" or the "fight" or the "heart" that the Mets had back in 1999. I'm just not buying it. This is baseball, not wrestling or tug of war. Baseball is not about trying hard. It's about talent. The best teams win in baseball. You can't be out coached like in football and you can't not try which is why the NBA regular season is unwatchable.
The 8 teams that make the playoffs in baseball every year are usually the 8 best and healthiest.
So the Mets should get there. They will get there, barring what would be a major choke, in which case 2007 will be remembered 25 years for the wrong reasons.
What is happening now doesn't really have much to do with what will happen come October. Brian Lawrence will not be wearing a Mets uniform in two weeks and hopefully Carlos Delgado will. The bullpen is now cold. Maybe soon, it will get hot.
And the Mets will enter October as the best team in the NL.
So we gotta just take these last couple of days as shitty days and nothing more. Our football seasons appear to be over, the Yankees look like a lock for October and Sip's stomach is feeling even worse thanks to some unfriendly grub over at Chase Field.
But I have to say, I can take some solace in the recent Mets losing ways. It makes these next two weeks of the regular season really interesting. I am all of a sudden watching the Phillies very closely, not because I don't want to see them in October but more so because I am curious to see if they'll get there at all.
Will the Mets see Peavy and Chris Young three times in the NLDS or will it be a Mets/ Dbacks showdwon that I should have guaranteed before the season, considering the course of my life.
We are not yet at freak out mode with the Mets. But maybe its a decent time to sweat.
But to expect the playoffs to be handed to us is to be Yankee fans. We're Mets fans, lets remember that.
Our team will be a loser until we win the last game of the season. And when that day comes, all of our lives will change. That's the beauty of sports.
Vaya,
Sip
posted by Sippy Momo at 11:51 PM
4 Comments:
Lots of discouraging signs though. I like to think it like Willie is weeding out the bad so that the good will be stronger in October.
I'm glad the season is now sufficiently interesting for you to care.
Yankees/Red Sox 2004. Team chemistry, trying "extra" hard, it matters in any sport. I appreciate your confidence and optimism, but you sound like a Yankee fan with this "best team always wins"/"mets are the best in the nl" crap. There is cause for concern, not cockiness.
Ya gotta believe, man. But don't sugarcoat. Let's go Mets, and let's hope for the best.
All right, after blowing another 4-run lead last night and anointing Ronnie goddamn Belliard the new Yadier goddamn Molina, I wanna know, Sip: ARE YOU FRIGGIN' WORRIED YET?
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