New York Mets Baseball Podcast

Mama Told Me

…there would be days like this.

If you’re lucky as a fan you never get to the time of the season when one loss means your team is going home for the winter. Of course those days happen more often than not. Some seasons are magical and teams roll through to a seemingly easy World Series win. Other seasons provide a roller coaster ride, sometimes to victory and sometimes not.

This 2006 season for the Mets has been really a straight shot into the playoffs and even through the first round. Now we’ve had some late loop-de-loops that bring us to being down 3-2 in the NLCS against the Cardinals. We felt the bumps of losing Pedro and Duque but dispatching the Dodgers gave us confidence. Confidence may be a bit hard to come by at the moment.

If you must focus on the negatives then let’s get them out of the way. We’re at the end of the rope on starting pitching. Maine hasn’t been good and we can’t use Glavine again for the rest of the series. Trachsel is pretty much finished with the Mets although we might be forced to start him if there is a game 7. The bats are cold as ice once again. These playoffs are looking like the Titanic for David Wright. He got a double late, but we needed more. Jose Reyes has been disappointing as well. He’s not patient and he keeps looking for extra base hits when he should be looking to work out walks. The team has only really put it together offensively for one game in this series. Plus I know that the umpires, Tim McCarver and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are against us. Wah, wah. I’m done crying now.

Here are some positives. Shea will be rocking tomorrow night. And there is some magical history at Shea, as many of you know. We only need to win two games in a row. The Mets have done that plenty of times this season. We can get to Chris Carpenter. We did last week at Shea. It can be done again. We can get to their bullpen again as well. This is no invincible squad of arms out there. The bats can wake up too. A late flight home can get players to thinking and sometimes that’s what’s needed. The fans will be waiting and cheering. Oh yeah, and we’ve beaten the Cards at Shea in the NLCS before. I’ll be even more pragmatic and state that this series is about one game. We can win one game tomorrow night and the worry about winning one more game. One game, our field, I believe.

!!!LET’S GO METS!!!

October 18th, 2006 Posted by Rob Safuto | Baseball, Blog, New York Mets | 10 comments