Tone deaf idiots. How you can build a new multi-gazillion dollar park and not have a Met museum, '86 champs exhibit, etc., etc., is just inconceivable. This is stupidity on a monumental scale. The Mets have concave patches on their sleeves that they've all but admitted are supposed to look like credit cards, play in a phony Ebbets field with built-in faux-historical idiosycracies fully two decades after that sort of thing was at all novel, interesting, architecturally relevant, etc., spend much of each broadcast hyping the "Pepsi (TM) Porch", are worried about their icons defacing the Citi "brand," and oh yeah -- TWICE failed to clean house after an embarrassing September faceplant that left their rivals mocking them during a World Series celebration. Amateur hour on a permanent basis.

Whew -- annnnnnnnnnnd, I'm done. Go Mets.

Is this another one of those "I'm too smart to see the elephant in the room" posts? If the Mets keep ignoring the character of their players, they will continue to fail in clutch situations, be it a ninth inning at bat or the last few games of a pennant race. I'm hoping that psychology can change -- that as, say, Wright matures, he'll come through more frequently and not press as much. But there's no evidence of that happening to date. All we have is a team that can't finish.

Yup, the "breaks." Two Septembers in a row, the Mets just didn't get "the breaks." Oh well. . . .

We had a lot of luck last year with Church hitting second. I might swap him and Murphy and leave Castillo (who doesn't K much) in the 8 spot.

Definitely want to see more close wins in the coming months . . . including September.

What else is new? Prepare for the parade of apologists. I like Wright a lot, but he's not a guy I want up in key situations in the late innings. Not that I'd pinch hit for him, but he's got a track record now. Chase Utley, he isn't, sad to say.

How does that contradict anything I wrote? If the only way he's a Major League hitter is to ignore fielding, he belongs in the AL. The fielding as of now is acceptable only to the extent it's a temporary condition. If he can't focus on it and it doesn't get better, however, he should be in AA learning to be a complete ballplayer.

We never get full information and we can't be inside his head, but I'm on board with you. The incessant "hitting is my job" mentality very well could lead to lapses in fielding. His job is to be a baseball player. Because he's new to the outfield, learning to play left field is a HUGE part of "his job." This may not be his problem, however. If the Mets organization is zipping him around the diamond to get his bat in the lineup, the message is that the bat far outweighs the field.

Overall experience. Sometimes there's no reason to mess with something simple if it works. We don't drink beer out of titanium pint glasses.

assume. assign. surpass. massive. passion.

Feels good.