My apologies for not being able to write this Mets article sooner, but I finally found a few moments that I could write my thoughts down.


As we head into the offseason, it was another disappointing season for our beloved New York Metropolitans. It wasn't an infamous choke down the stretch (2007) or a “choke” (2008), but better yet it was injury after injury after injury. The injuries were so unique and plentiful that even the backups got injured (see Ramon Martinez and Alex Cora).

Besides the wonderful injuries that the Metsies encountered, there was plenty of off the field issues as well such as Tony Bernazard's challenge to fight the double a team and Omar Minaya saying that Daily News writer Adam Rubin wanted a job with the Mets. Plenty of entertainment to go around, making the Mets season more like a long episode of The Jerry Springer Show.

Now as October begins, not only are the Mets not in the playoffs again, but our new hated rivals the Phillies and crosstown rivals the Yankees BOTH made it. It would be complete doomsday if these two play each other in the World Series. While some of you may be thinking “But Matt, its New York vs Philly, still!”, and I do agree with that, I would be making many of my relatives turn in their graves if I ever rooted for what was deemed the “Evil Empire”.

As Mets fans, you have to ask yourselves, haven't we suffered enough? Collapses, soap operas, injuries and then surgeries, dropped popups to basic fundamental mistakes. And if someone were to ask me, I would agree, even though we probably don't have much to compare to versus say Cubs fans who have 100 years of futility or even Indians fans where there city of Cleveland hasn't won a major sports championship since 1964.

As a Mets fan who received another “wonderful” apology from Wilpon Omar and company the day after the season ended, I really ask myself how much longer can this unit go on? The unit I refer to is management from the top down. As Jerry Manuel mentioned on WFAN the other day, he knows that 2010 will need to get off to a good start, or chances are him and Omar will be joining the unemployment line. While management is only part of the Mets problems, I think thats the basic foundation and we will find out quickly in 2010 if that foundation will build up or fall down.

I really don't know what to think, because while injuries are certainly not anyones fault, the wonderful record the Mets had down the stretch losing the majority of their games, playing lifeless baseball has to fall on someone, but it obviously wasn't enough to change hands.

It appears to me that the Wilpons are giving Omar Jerry and company one more shot, and we could be in for suffering one more time. All we can ask for is that players stay healthy and perform to the best of their abilities.