World Series Wrap Up

The easy thing to do, would be just to say nothing.

          The easy thing to do, would just say that the Mets lost to the better team, which they did, and leave it at that.

          The easy thing to do, would be to congratulate the Royals on being worthy champions, which they are, and not say anything further.

           I promised I wouldn't flip out if the Mets lost. I'm going to look like a fool for opening my mouth. The easy thing to do, would be to keep quiet. To seethe silently. Or not seethe at all.

           I could say that the Mets gave it their all, tried their best, and just didn't have the stuff to compete with a far superior team. I could rationalize that it just wasn't their year, not yet their time.

But if I did that I wouldn't be honest.

         And whether you love what I write, or hate it, whether you think me a genius or a moron, whether or not you agree with me, I owe it to you the reader to be honest with what I write. It always comes from the heart.

And if I write all that I mentioned above, I wouldn't be doing that.

I saw what I saw, and this is what I saw.

1) The first pitch thrown to a Kansas City Royal was a routine fly ball that was hit to our all star center fielder. A little leaguer could have made that play. Instead, it was turned into an inside the park home run.

2) Our closer, who all year was lights out, blew a save in Game One.

3) Our second baseman, let a ball go under his glove allowing the tying run to score in Game 4.

4) Our closer who was lights out all year, blew a save in Game 4.

5) Our center fielder, who carried us through August and early September, had his hardest hit in the World Series go off his knee.

6) Our first baseman couldn't throw the ball to home plate, which would have ended the game.

7) Our closer who was awesome all year blew a save in Game 5.

        So you want to tell me that the Royals won this Series? Be my guest. From where I'm sitting, the Mets lost this Series, because they played like crap. Fundamental baseball, like catching fly balls, fielding grounders, and making good throws, all went by the wayside.

       And shit, the only real thing I asked of these Mets was that they extend the Series to 6 games. Don't make the fans, who shelled out huge sums of money to come cheer you on, have to sit there and watch the Kansas City Royals celebrate on our field, in our stadium. How could you let that happen?

        Matt Harvey pitches the game of his life. The Royals, a team we are told never strikes out, struck out 9 times against Harvey. And everybody is killing Terry Collins for having Harvey start the 9th? I say bravo to Collins, because why would you go to Jeryus Familia, who basically turned into Braden Looper in this series. I had no problem whatsoever with that move.

        And it wouldn't have mattered if the Mets had managed more than three freakin hits in the game!!! Three lousy hits? We made these Royals pitchers look like the 1970 Baltimore Orioles, for Christs sake, two of these pitchers had losing records, a couple of them had ERA's over 5. Chris Young was one of their starters. I mean, what the hell?

          Yoenis Cespides carried us for 6 weeks. Daniel Murphy, for the first two rounds of the playoffs. It was bad enough neither one of them could hit in the Series, but the errors they made was inexcusable. Both are now looking for big money contracts. Cespides I wouldn't pay 5 cents for. If some schmuck GM wants to give him a 6 year contract for over $100 million, by all means. The man's been traded three times in the past three years. Let him be someone else's headache. Adios!

           Murphy, well, I mean, I know he at least try his best, but he fell apart on the big stage. Part of me hates to see him go, but I certainly wouldn't over pay him either.

            In my previous post, I explained why I couldn't abide a 5 game series loss. But what's worse, the comparisons to the 2000 World Series are scary.  It was also a 5 game loss, where poor base running, sloppy fielding, and awful relief pitching did the Mets in. The only thing that makes this more bearable than that is that the Royals won't be getting a parade down the Canyon of Heroes.  To sum it up, I heard Mike Francessa say on my way home from work today. "I thought the 2000 World Series was the toughest 5 game series I ever saw. This one was even closer!" I wanted to pull the car over and throw up.

          Maybe I should take solace in what Francessa said. Maybe I should just be grateful that the Mets got to the World Series, as everyone keeps telling me I should. Maybe I should realize that they were dead in the water on July 30th and had no business winning the NL East, never mind the NL Pennant.

Maybe someday, I will.

       For now, all I see is a team that had a chance to at least make a Series out of this and didn't. I see a team  that forgot basic fundamental baseball. The toughest 5 game series ever? That and a MetroCard will get you on the subway.

As far as I'm concerned, the Royals were handed this victory

As far as I'm concerned, the Mets got swept.