A Poor Performance

Yesterday’s loss for the Mets is a difficult one for me to handle. I can accept the fact that Wagner blew a save. He has been money this year, lights out. Last year, although his numbers were good, he would blow some saves and try to blow others (or so it felt) that ultimately the Mets held on to win. This year has been different, so if on a rare occasion, he blows a save (only his second this year), while I would feel better if he didn’t, I can live with it (like I have a choice).

What is frustrating is here we are facing a second rate team, a team we should be able to sweep, to really make a statement after losing two of three to Atlanta, and the Mets looked flat. They were only able to score three runs off a third rate pitcher and those all came on one swing of the bat. We should have been pounding this guy, scoring early and adding runs on, but no. For a good portion of the game, the Mets were trailing and then one homerun accounted for all the runs. This is just not acceptable.

While Brian Lawrence did not pitch badly, he certainly did not provide that feeling of comfort I like from the starting rotation. This to me, again, points out the weakness of the staff. Pedro is still iffy for this season (and coming back from such an injury maybe tougher than people think and who knows what the deal is with him for next year. Hernandez has been hot and cold, his age is up there, and most of the time you can’t get more than six from him. Glavine has been more cold than hot, and Ollie and Maine are just not giving me that comfortable feeling that they did earlier in the year.

This team needs to WAKE UP. Hopefully today will be the start!

Let’s Go Mets!