Good Bye, Cespy -- Hope You'll Be Back Next Year!
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It was nice having Cespy back "home" for one game anyway. He showed us that he's still capable, but now he needs to take care of his body. Take good care of yourself and may G-d bring you back for your sake and for ours.
Now that we know Cespy will be out for the season (and likely past spring training and into next season -- anyone else feeling like we wasted some time with him being on the DL without this going into the process?) the rest of the team (once the trading trash-talk goes by the wayside), whoever is left after the t-bomb, needs to play how they played today.
Oswalt may have officially gotten the win (and he did pitch well enough to deserve the win) but IMHO, the win should go to Jose Bautista. Bautista made a spectacular catch that saved a run or two, plus he hit a two run homer to cap the Mets scoring (thank goodness he did -- they needed those extra runs!). Without Bautista, we would never have won that game.
So we finally won a series, after 17 series without a series victory. It is also two straight wins. Yay. But I'm one of those fans who doesn't give up (ownership and management to the contrary notwithstanding) on a season until my team is mathematically eliminated. I still think that the Mets are just a couple of winning streaks from being a contending team.
The difference between previous years' "trading deadlines" and this year's is that in previous years the Mets' management was trying to shore up the team at the "trading deadline". This year, I'm SOOOO sick of hearing the gossip, so sick of the "should they trade deGrom or Syndergaard or Matz or Wheeler" -- we're finally bordering on a time when they're all doing what we knew they could but management wants to split up the "dream team". Why can't we try to see what this team as it is now (granted, already down by one reliever, one closer who rose up when he was needed -- what, do they think Mejia is going to be reinstated?) capable of doing, see if they can rise to the occasion? Why can't we give the guys who were injured last year a chance to get to their "good level" so to speak? They are all capable. They are all good players.
Please, don't "break up" our Mets!
It was nice having Cespy back "home" for one game anyway. He showed us that he's still capable, but now he needs to take care of his body. Take good care of yourself and may G-d bring you back for your sake and for ours.
Now that we know Cespy will be out for the season (and likely past spring training and into next season -- anyone else feeling like we wasted some time with him being on the DL without this going into the process?) the rest of the team (once the trading trash-talk goes by the wayside), whoever is left after the t-bomb, needs to play how they played today.
Oswalt may have officially gotten the win (and he did pitch well enough to deserve the win) but IMHO, the win should go to Jose Bautista. Bautista made a spectacular catch that saved a run or two, plus he hit a two run homer to cap the Mets scoring (thank goodness he did -- they needed those extra runs!). Without Bautista, we would never have won that game.
So we finally won a series, after 17 series without a series victory. It is also two straight wins. Yay. But I'm one of those fans who doesn't give up (ownership and management to the contrary notwithstanding) on a season until my team is mathematically eliminated. I still think that the Mets are just a couple of winning streaks from being a contending team.
The difference between previous years' "trading deadlines" and this year's is that in previous years the Mets' management was trying to shore up the team at the "trading deadline". This year, I'm SOOOO sick of hearing the gossip, so sick of the "should they trade deGrom or Syndergaard or Matz or Wheeler" -- we're finally bordering on a time when they're all doing what we knew they could but management wants to split up the "dream team". Why can't we try to see what this team as it is now (granted, already down by one reliever, one closer who rose up when he was needed -- what, do they think Mejia is going to be reinstated?) capable of doing, see if they can rise to the occasion? Why can't we give the guys who were injured last year a chance to get to their "good level" so to speak? They are all capable. They are all good players.
Please, don't "break up" our Mets!
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