Mets Should’ve Pressed This After Game 20
Many point to the Mets’ 11-game winning streak as the pinnacle of the 2015 season (thus far). I’d argue that the euphoria extended a few days further, to April 27th, when the team was 15-5 and still ten games over .500.
Now, 52 games later, while playing 10 games below .500, the team is 36-36. Has it really been 52 games since the Mets were flat-out dominating the NL East?
Had they known where they’d be right now, and had there been such a thing, I wonder if the Mets would’ve pressed this to stop the season cold:
What about you? Are you looking forward the remainder of the 2015 season, or gazing back at that swiftly fading memory when hope sprung eternal?
My playoff hopes for 2015 are dim, but I’ll still be watching, there are always surprises and cool things and interesting storylines and heroes of the moment. Jacob deGrom for top 5 Cy Young, maybe? Dilson Herrera — who’s right, the scouts who think he’s a future All-Star or the scouts who think he’s peaked early like Tejada? The losing does get miserable, though, and I have a lot of ire for the folks responsible.
Wright was clutch as a kid, but the 2007 collapse and the weight of subsequent expectations and disappointment utterly killed that, and I’m not sure any Met hitter has gotten it back since.