HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN’T TAKE THIS. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS TEAM, BUT SOMETHING IS. SOMEBODY, MAYBE WILLIE, MAYBE OMAR, MAYBE A PLAYER, HAS TO GO ON A TIRADE THAT TRULY SCARES THIS TEAM! HEY GUYS WAKE UP!!!!!!!

Today’s game was a loss of the worst kind. Forget the fact that the Mets have just been swept, in a four game series, by the Philadelphia Phillies, the second team in the National League East. Forget the fact that the Mets lead is now down to just two games. Forget the fact that now that the Met bats have woken up, the pitching has gone to sleep. To me, the most frustrating thing in today’s game was, the way the Mets let Philadelphia back in this game.

First, after finding themselves down five to nothing early on and coming back to tie it, in the bottom of the same inning where the Mets tied the game, Met pitching allowed the Phillies to take the lead once again by three runs. How frustrating this must be for the Met hitters. Here they pecked away at a lead, and a decent size one and that. The Mets scored three runs in the fourth and two in the fifth to tie it at 5-5. In the bottom of the fifth, Met pitching allows the Phills to score three more runs and take an 8-5 lead.

As if this wasn’t ad enough, THEY DID IT TWICE!!! I am glad to see the Mets had some fight in them and fought back in the eighth inning. They actually scored five runs to take a 10-8 lead. Then, obviously sensing how important this game was, Willie Randolph brings in Billy Wagner for a two inning save and Wagner BLOWS IT! After scoring five runs, Wagner lets them score a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to make this a one run ballgame (10-9). Then, he gives up two more in the bottom of the ninth to blow another game, thus letting the Phills sweep.

Philadelphia showed me a lot in this four game set. So did the Mets, for that matter. The difference is, what Phillie showed me was positive. Unfortunately what the Mets showed me were things I would have rather not seen.

Now it is onto Atlanta for a weekend series against the Braves. Right now I have some concerns. I can see the Mets losing two out of three to the Braves. The possibility of the Mets finishing the weekend out of first place in the NL East, while maybe not probably, is certainly a very real possibility.

Hopefully they will rebound.

Let’s Go Mets!