The Teasing Rainy Fates

Many people want to say, "Oh, it's just the Marlins. The Mets are SUPPOSED to fatten up against a team like that." Any Mets fan knows it's not that simple when it comes to this team, but there we were, trying to climb out of our slog that left us 17-20, one game away from making that winning percentage have at least a 5 in the right place again.

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On cue, Mother Nature wanted the Mets, on Mother's Day, no less, to take two days off. Who knows whether we were just being set up for disappointment, after they were just able to give their ace some run support in the 6th inning with some power from our young core in a 4-1 win Saturday night? There on Sunday, however, was an opportunity to somewhat eradicate the road trip that left us shaking our heads and rolling our eyes. With an offday today, we'll just have to wait one more day.

My fear is that we were indeed setting ourselves up for disappointment, with the overrated Nationals, currently even worse than the Mets, rolling on in. It is always like the Mets, and a pessimistic way of looking at it on my part, to play the part of slump buster. As terrible as I think the Nationals are when they are always the darlings of the early season predictions, they always have a knack of being a thorn in our sides. The Mets need to crush them when they are this low, making sure they have an even harder time at any point this season getting up again. Otherwise, I envision them looking back on this coming series as the catalyst that turned their season around, and us recognizing it was here when things finally got buried.

The only thing I hope gets buried is the consistent inconsistencies, starting with Noah Syndergaard. He must revert back to his superhero ways, and if he needs to do it with his bat, so be it. Regardless of his opponent the day he won 1-0 with a solo shot, he looked so damn fresh and determined in that game. Replicate what you did on a pitch-by-pitch basis that day and you will get back on track. Have at this Nationals team struggling to get by.

There we sit 19-20, the rain laughing as it drips on by. Take these days to take some breaths. And let's all regroup when the sun comes out tomorrow.

What's that? It's grey till Wednesday?

At least the rainy rhythm can sooth a troubled mind.

I hope all the Metsian Mothers out there had a wonderful Mother's Day, whatever you ended up doing.

KEEP. ON. PUSHIN'.

LET'S. GO. METS.

I STILL Don't Know How We Won That Game

There I was...writing the recap for Rising Apple when all of a sudden Daniel Murphy hits a 2-run home run.

You can see the vitriol I was swimming in from the beginning of the piece...and you can see where I was utterly amazed that the Mets showed any life at all. I actually wrote, "Then...wow, Daniel Murphy hit a 2-run home run."

I think the play of the 9th inning, other than the Murph jumpstart, was the Bobby Abreu ball off Chase Utley's glove. If you didn't see the play, well, Chase basically over-dove it. Chase could have easily made that play. Way to make contact there, Bobby, 'cause with the amount of LOB we had this weekend (Over 35), clearly we hadn't been making enough contact with runners on and less than 2 out.

And gotta give it to Ruben Tejada, for swinging at a 1st-pitch fastball, something they don't often do on this team, and lining it into left. He's been in the doghouse, so way to come through.

Honorable mention in this piece has to go to Chris Young as well, who got two key hits late, and put some good swings on the ball for those hits.

So, my frustration was cooled a bit. Just a bit. Do I still think that Terry Collins shouldn't be the manager of this team at some point, and sooner rather than later? Absolutely, and my friend Danny Abriano speaks for me in this piece right here. But it was nice for a nice Mother's Day surprise after taking care of it last Father's Day. And HEY! We were a much better team the rest of the season after that...maybe it happened a little earlier this year...you know...before we are 15 games under .500....

So, now we head to the Bronx to take on those Yankees. We are 17-19. They are 19-17. Interesting. Zack Wheeler will take on Carlos Beltran at some point. And maybe Curtis Granderson can REALLY turn it on by practicing in his old stomping grounds. Though I always expect that the Yanks will take more advantage of their joke of a ballpark than we do, but then again, we are riding a 4-game winning streak against the team! But Fastball-Bartolo in that ballpark frightens me...

Time to take the 4 train, True New Yorkers.

LET'S. GO. NL.

LET'S. GO. METS.

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