New Year's Resolution for a Mets Lifer

from MetsLifer.com

At the beginning of a new year it is often a good time to reflect on what has happened over the last twelve months and how you can improve in the next twelve months. Here are some new year's resolutions for this Mets Lifer.

1. Stop being so surprise when Willie Randolph doesn't put on the squeeze play with Reyes or Chavez on third base with less than 2 outs.
2. Quit praying for Chipper Jones to be hit in the head every time he comes to the plate
3. Start praying for Chipper Jones to be hit in the back every time he comes to the plate
4. Start having faith in the Mets bullpen
5. Teach my eldest son to memorize the Mets starting lineup
6. Turn my Armando Benitez voodoo doll into a Jimmy Rollins voodoo doll
7. Learn to spell Schoenweis (sp?) without having to look it up
8. Suppress my anger when away games on SNY aren't in HD
9. Don't order my custom Mets Johan Santana. . .yet
10. Never forget what Tom Glavine did as a Met

Here's to a successful 2008 Mets season.

Did anyone ask the Mets if our season has come. . .again?

This Is Our Manager

from MetsLifer.com

Marty Noble of MLB.com wrote a very interesting piece this morning about the current Mets situation. Here's a blurb that took me by surprise:

This is the middle-of-the road reaction to the pennant race that Randolph spoke about before the game on Monday: "If we smell the roses and sip some champagne, so be it. If not, that's life."

This got me seriously angry. I'm trying to contain myself right now, but it did remind me of a similar quote from 19 years ago. This is the quote from Kevin McReynolds the day of the 7th game of the NLCS against the Dodgers when asked about his thoughts for Game 7. McReynolds replied that either way "he wins." If the Mets won the game, they'd be in the World Series, if they lost he'd be hunting tomorrow. Either way he wins.

It's no wonder that Kevin McReynolds was not appreciated amongst Mets fans. Sure he had some good seasons with us, but that comment was enough to make me detest him.

Now Willie Randolph comes out and says something like that in the middle of a pennant race? You gotta be kidding me. I'm sure the players really want to rally behind him now.