Amazin’ Mets
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- September
- 28
This is incredible. Amazin’.
I truly expected the Mets to pull out of this thing, even after last night, when their debacle and Philadelphia’s win left the teams dead even with three games left.
I still do, for some reason, although I don’t know why.
But tonight, this is amazin’. I don’t recall a team ever looking so tight, so nervous. OK, maybe the Red Sox in 1978 … but the Sox pulled out of that and won their last eight or nine games to force the playoff game. Maybe the Yankees in Games 6 and 7 of the ‘04 ALCS.
And I’m not one who believes, generally, that poor play equates to lack of try or lack of emotion or anything else intangible. But the Mets tonight, from David Wright’s mindless play on a hopper to third, to Oliver Perez’s three hit batsmen (question: why is a batter only a batsman when he gets hit by a pitch?) look as if their heads are just loaded with doubt and dread and fear.
That’s no way to win. Again, all it’s going to take is one good inning offensively to turn into one victory, and the Mets can still win this thing, or at worst get to Philadelphia for a playoff game Monday.
Ya gotta believe that, don’t you? At this point, maybe not.
PS, it always helps to have Gas Can Kim on the mound for the opponent.
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