Today, listening to Mike, in what one of the most exciting days for a Mets fan in recent memory, I can't help but become furious at this guy's insistance that the Mets need to change their lineup.
He is throwing around the words "clutch", and "choke" and "hit in a big spot" around and blaming the Mets failure to get a "clutch hit" in the last week of the season as the reason they missed the playoffs.
He is saying "now you can't use the bullpen as an excuse, and if you bring back this same mess (meaning the Mets lineup) you will have the same thing happen as last year."
Mike, as usual, is wrong.
If J.J. Putz is setting up K-Rod last year the Mets win 100 games, Johan wins 23 games (and the Cy Young) and you can argue they would have hat a great shot at winning the World Series.
You're not going find a better NL lineup, top to bottom, than the one the New York Mets currently have. Maybe the Phillies, but that's about it. Everyone who wasn't a moron told Mike that the idea of trading David Wright was ludicrous, but Mike still thinks the Mets are "gaggers."
I am here to say that the Mets "collapse" as people like to put it, last year, was 100 percent due to the bullpen. 100 fucking percent. It had NOTHING to do with David Wright's dozen or so shitty ABs the last couple of days of the season. To put a microscope on that sample size and to basically question David Wright's "clutchness" as a result of wildly irresponsible and stupid. The ineptitude of the Mets bullpen last year was HISTORIC. If they were even half-competent, the Mets would have had that division locked up by the end of August.
Now Mike is about to bring on Darryl Strawberry from 2-5. That's 3 fucking hours with Strawberry? Why?
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