The Way It Is
I was watching the Mets game tonight on DVR. When the recording ran out, Johan had just been lifted toward the end of the 8th, after Delgado booted that ball in foul ground. If Delgado had caught that ball it would have ended the inning and changed everything after.
It seemed so harmless at the time.
Then the tape ran out and I switched over to SNY. The 5-2 lead was gone, replaced by an 8-5 deficit.
I said it the last time the Mets played the Phillies. Sure we'd beaten them 3 straight, but we'd just allowed the Phillies to turn a 10-1 lead into a 10-9 victory.
I said then that that final victory was disappointing because of what it didn't do. It didn't send a message that we had overcome the psychological hurdle of 2007. Instead, it only seemed to confirm that over a long enough period of time, the Mets would fold, and the Phillies would win.
Tonight's game reinforces that point. Over a long enough period of time, this Phillies team always seems to get the better of the Mets.
I'm not quite sure why that is. I'm not sure why the Mets are incapable of winning at Turner Field either. Some things just are what they are.
A baseball game is 9 innings long. If it were 8 the Mets would have won tonight. A baseball season is 162 games long. If it were 159 games, the Mets would have won last year.
Only they aren't, and they didn't.
* * * * *
It's just sickening.
Normally I try to find the silver lining, but not this time. This loss is exactly as devastating as you think it is.
- A.F.O.M.G.
It seemed so harmless at the time.
Then the tape ran out and I switched over to SNY. The 5-2 lead was gone, replaced by an 8-5 deficit.
I said it the last time the Mets played the Phillies. Sure we'd beaten them 3 straight, but we'd just allowed the Phillies to turn a 10-1 lead into a 10-9 victory.
I said then that that final victory was disappointing because of what it didn't do. It didn't send a message that we had overcome the psychological hurdle of 2007. Instead, it only seemed to confirm that over a long enough period of time, the Mets would fold, and the Phillies would win.
Tonight's game reinforces that point. Over a long enough period of time, this Phillies team always seems to get the better of the Mets.
I'm not quite sure why that is. I'm not sure why the Mets are incapable of winning at Turner Field either. Some things just are what they are.
A baseball game is 9 innings long. If it were 8 the Mets would have won tonight. A baseball season is 162 games long. If it were 159 games, the Mets would have won last year.
Only they aren't, and they didn't.
* * * * *
It's just sickening.
Normally I try to find the silver lining, but not this time. This loss is exactly as devastating as you think it is.
- A.F.O.M.G.
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 10:10 PM
4 Comments:
Sitting at a concert tonight between acts, I was rapidly refreshing the old Blackberry internet. After Reyes decided not to take the easy out and it was 5-3, Jeannie looked at me and said "Put it away. They're going to lose. But it's okay. It will be okay."
Point being, even she knows the Mets can't beat the Phillies without watching one minute of the game.
Boo.
I believe Endy was cut down at the plate twice. If he was not sent home on those plays, he could have scored later (I believe each time there were subsequent hits) so those potential runs would have been huge. Oh well.
And I know Johan pitched great, but it really killed me to see the Phils score before Jose got to take a swing.
The hangover continues...
Manuel takes the Ace out early, the Mets lose. Where have we heard that one before? At least Willie showed some ability to learn from mistakes and trust or not trust guys based on performance.
Manuel didn't trust Santana, Wagner, Smith, even Sanchez. It was solely his decision why they were used the way they were, and he botched pretty much all of it.
If we'd won this game, I'd say it'd be a big thing, the Phillies were already reeling, already discouraging, we beat up their 'new savior' and we'd have won 8 of 11, be in first place, etc. Phillies, being the Phillies, likely would've crawled into a hole and died. But now we let them back into it. A lot of people said yesterday was the start of the 'new season' tied with however many games to go.
Well now it truly is, because the Phillies had to have gained some confidence from that, and i don't buy that they did in the last game. It can't be that good feeling to stage your best comeback, be your grittiest, and still know it's not enough to beat the Mets.
Ceetar -- really disagree with you. Sure the Phils fell short, but it reinforced a hundred times over the point that when the Phillies are down against the Mets, they're never out of it. If that game had gone 10 innings do you doubt for a second they'd have won it? I sure don't.
The point I was trying to make in the post is that's not a silly hypothetical -- it's like this Mets team is incapable of beating the Phillies, they're only incapable of outlasting them. Sometimes we outlast them because the game is 9 innings long (and not 10), other times we don't outlast them because the game's 9 innings long (and not 8). Either way, we never seem to close the door on them, and that's extremely frustrating and discouraging from my perspective.
In any event, I basically look at tonight as a must win. As disappointing as the loss was yesterday, winning today and tomorrow would send an excellent message about the resiliency of our team... what was that I said about finding the silver lining?
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