Who says lightning can’t strike twice? I needed a couple of days to recover from Sad Sunday @ Shea in order to write my thoughts on the season and eventual choke. Yeah we started slow, fired Willie and then played well. We were 3.5 games up with 17 to go and finished 3 games out of the division. We were 2 games up in the final week in the wild card and lost by a game. The team’s inability to win big games down the stretch really hurt. All the players say 2007 never entered their mind, but given the same cast of characters how could it not. How do you forget the most traumatic moment of your career which is in history as the biggest collapse in MLB history? I am sure that when they started losing they thought…”this can’t happen again can it???”
Yes it can and YES it did. So as I ponder about the offseason and wait to get a refund on my playoff tix, I wonder if they will string me along for another 161 games next year only to let me down. This season followed the same pattern as last year. Big lead with 17 to go, 1st series against Philly and we lose, we come home for the final week, tie for 1st in the standings on the 2nd to last day with an amazing pitching performance (last year it was Maine, this year Johan – both pitched shutouts), only to lose the final game to Florida (both years) to be eliminated.
OUCH!! This hurts. I got my hopes up. As the playoffs start today without the Mets, I can only sit back and hope not to watch as I will just get sick to my stomach. The Mets hurt me this year, but like a bad break-up I have been hurt before so it does not sting as much. To put it in terms of Danity Kane…I’m DAMAGED. I know not to get my hopes up anymore. I know I must wait until the last day to find out whether I should be happy or not. I will have to wait for another roller coaster season which is only 6 months away….
Read me later.
SamNYC
