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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, May 10, 2008Graziano: Mets have very little fire … and the manager is to blameOr as a totally phenorbitalized Abbie Hoffman almost said..."Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatrical’ in a crowded fire.”
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They have basically gotten nothing from Alou, Pedro, and Duque, and Beltran hasn't been himself lately. If you think Willie needs to be fired, I don't think it is for this season.
Either way, there is no more tedious team in baseball right now than the Mets. I mean in every aspect - the players, the absurd press coverage, the fan overreaction to a 17-15, the manager, the collapse, the overoptomistic fanboys who were predicting 97 wins. It's all so overplayed. Why can't people accept that they are solid team that is nowhere near good enough to run away with anything and nowehere near as bad as last September? Flip a coin in the NL East.
I still think the Mets are going to win the NL East by 5+ games. Nothing I have seen in the first month has changed my mind.
It's also true that the Mets have had an inordinate number of off days and rain outs and therefore have only needed to throw their 4th/5th starters a total of 10 times. They've been lucky in that regard.
The Mets have skipped their fifth starter once. I don't think that's more than most other teams. They are also batting only .179 with RISP and 2 outs.
File this under "Most expected thing ever". Met fans crack me up.
Look, everyone knows that these guys are going to miss some time every year. They also will likely contribute something as the season progresses. I didn't expect them to play the entire year. I do expect them to help the eventually.
They aren't Mike Hampton, afterall. Anyway, bookmark the thread and call me an idiot if it doesn't happen. I'll be more than willing to own up to this.
And this is coming from a Met fan who did not feel the Mets were overwhelming favorites last year.
I'd say there is less than a 40% chance of any team winning the NL East by 5+ games. I'd put the Mets chances at around 15%.
I wasn't so sure about this until Gotham Central and Healey argued for keeping Randolph. They are like Steve Phillips to me - figure which way their wind blows and head in the opposite direction.
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