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2009
Are The Mets An Embarrassing Team?
An article by Former Writers
As everybody knows by now the Mets were just swept by are hated rivals, the Yankees. I was embarrassed to be a Met fan this past weekend. I wasn’t embarrassed because of the lack of offense. I was embarrassed because of their lack of fundamentals.
In the opening game of the series the Mets had three errors. Now three errors in a game is bad, but they had three errors in one inning! I mean one error in an inning is fine, but three? It was like little league. Bad throws, missed catches it was like watching the Nationals out on the field. Then we go to last night, if you read the box score it will say that the Mets had no errors, which is correct. But as we’ve seen again, and again this year the Mets made poor choices. In the first inning Mr. Dan Murphy decided to try and get the force out at 2nd, rather than taking the safe out at first. If the game was on the line say bottom of the eighth, one out, the score is real close, you make that play because it can be a game saving play. However you don’t make that play in the first when the game is not on the line, even if the Mets have showed that they can’t score to save their life.
If the Mets were losing beacuse of their lack of core players, but were playing fundamentally sound baseball, I think people would understand, and feel sympathy for them. But when the Mets make mistake after mistake wheather it’s on the field or base-running, then there is absolutely no excuse. None whatsoever. I don’t care if your a bench player playing everyday, you should still be able to make throws from SS, to 1B. NO MATTER WHAT. And if your Mr. Murphy, that play he made in the first inning, is not from inexperience at 1B, that is a mental error, and not knowing the status of the game.
At what point do you start blaming Jerry Manuel? Here is a manager that preaches fundamentals, and clearly whatever he is doing is not working. If you “preach” something, the team is supposed to execute the task, which obviously the Mets aren’t. I’m not saying fire the guy now, I’m just saying he’s a bad manager. But that’s a different post for a different time.
All I’m saying is that the Mets are the laughing stock around the media, and fans. How many times this season have Met fans been crushed by the Mets sloppy play? Even if Omar Minaya trades for a bat, that player suddenly won’t make the Mets an error free team. Hopefully when Beltran, Reyes, Delgado etc. come back from the DL, we will no longer have to witness a sloppy team, that sometimes play like little leaguers.
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No, but a good bat and a less error-prone player will be an improvement. Right now we need an improvement.
It seems that whatever upside Murphy offers as a hitter gets pretty much negated by his defensive ineptitude.
Manuel to me is neither the solution nor the problem just now. Basically, I think he’s competent, but he has to act steadily and keep his emotions in check–not easy for any of us, God knows. He’s obviously way more aware than any of us what the currently constituted crew can do. Management and coaching are not the biggest worries.
Murphy has shown he cannot be hidden in any position on the field. He appears to be a natural DH playing in the wrong league. It appears that he was brought up from the minors too soon before really learning the fundamentals of at least one field position. Perhaps the problem is that the fundamentals are not being taught properly in the minor league system.
Everyone Met fan who want Jerry Manuel fired is crazy. Since taking over the Mets last season Jerry Manuel has the 3rd winning percentage as a manager from that point forward. Is not Manuel fault that the Mets have a line-up which sucks. The mets line-up is the worst in all of baseball. Besides if they do fire Jerry Manuel do you think whoever they bring it will all of a sudden cure beltran/reyes/delgado? because this is folks the reason why the Mets are so bad.
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Great comment! This post is a joke. Embarrassment is an overstatement Sommer. WASHINGTON is an Embarrassment! We have 3 of our core players out that made a huge difference on our team and on top of that our subs even needed subs. I gotta say for the Mets to be so close to a Philly team that is stacked with hitters, I think that says something good about this team. Could it be better of course but I am pretty grateful they are where they are right now with what they have.
Speak for yourself. This post is an accurate reflection of the state of the Mets.
It was embarassing when we lost to the Yankees because castillo dropped an easy popup.
It was embarassing when we lost to Nationals twice because Wright couldn’t throw the ball to first base.
It was embarassing that we almost got no-hit in back to back games against the Yankees in Citi.
It was embarassing to see K-Rod walk Mariano Rivera.
It was embarassing to see the Mets allow 19 hits in a nine inning game last night.
You may blame those instances on ijuries, but a real objective baseball fan knows better.
So if this team is such an embarrassment and joke, than what would a Nationals team in last place be considered?
Look I hate every loss and I mean hate with a passion but man someone take a chill pill please.
Do I see problems of course, who wouldn’t! I’m just saying that a bigger embarrassment to me is a World Championship team barely winning a division with all the talent they have. That seems like a bigger embarrassment to me.
Should this team play better damn right they should! Who wouldn’t say that. I’m just saying everyone needs to relax.
They wouldn’t be an embarassment. Teams with $40 million dollar payrolls are not an embarassment they are just unfortunate that they didnt have an extra 100 million to spend like the Mets did.
The Nat would have never given Delgado $14 million to play when they knew he had chronic hip problems. The Nats would have never given Ollie $36 million so he could piss it away. We are an embarassment because we have the highest payroll in the entire National League!!!
I dont want to get in between the crossfire, but kmaxx is right. The reason the Mets have to be embarassed is because they throw money at everything ut never really build a team. Plus, even the healthy players are so bad fundamentally and there is no excuse for that. Omar is the highest paid GM in the game with his new deal, and what exactly has he ever won?
Daniel Murphy is a designated hitter at best …. he is a liability wherever he plays in the field …. and, as a DH, I am not sure he will ever make it becasue he has minimal power and is awfully streaky.
Murphy was never a top-tier prospect and is showing us why.
Look, I like the kid, but he is the second coming of Mike Vail … and for long-time Met fans, we know how that worked out.
Murph is just a guy trying to make it in the big leagues. It was the Mets who hyped him up and made him the starting leftfielder, when they knew he was a liability in the field. His throw to thirdbase was late because he double clutched. I agree it was not the play to make but if he gets the guy out, we are not having this discussion. This is a testament to the lack of developing players in the minor league level.
It was just plain foolish to throw Murphy into LF and assume he would learn to play the position in the Big Leagues. He was set up to fail. His mgmt hyped him and built up the pressure on his shoulders. Meanwhile they used him to downplay Church, a more seasoned player, unfairly. The result was 2 players with a confidence bust. That was awful mgmt and then all the injuries occurred and now we are trapped in a dismal season.
The Mets are CURRENTLY an embarrassment for more reasons than 1. First off, the Philles lost 8 out of there last 10 games. The Philles were practically giving the Mets first place, and the Mets at one point were only a half game out thanks to the Blue Jays. It seemed to me like the Mets finally got there opportunity to strike and take back the division lead, but apparently they rather have Yankees fans cheering LETS GO YANKEES louder than any chant I have heard at Citi Field this year.
Now, I love the Mets, don’t get me wrong, but they CURRENTLY are an embarrassment which does not mean good things are ahead such as Jerry Manuel stated in his after game press conference. I like Jerry Manuel a lot, I think he has smarts at different moments, and low points as well, just as all of us do. But when it boils down to it, he gets the big bucks to manage this team, so in some aspects he knows SOMETHING of what hes doing. I mean this is his job after all.
And you know what else? I actually kinda wish that Willie Randolph was back, because he was the only one who had some sort of response for the Mets lack of offense and injuries back in 2007.
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Correction: In the first sentence, you put, “..Mets were just swept by are hated rivals..” WRONG. It should be, “..Mets were just swept by OUR hated rivals..” I barely took a glance at the article. I haven’t read the whole thing, but I’m sure there’s more incorrect grammar/spelling/etc. Maybe MetsMerizedOnline should have signed me up to write the articles.
With all due respect, i make mistakes in my articles as well. So what if there’s spelling and grammar mistakes? To err is but human.
I like Jerry Manuel up to a point. Is a bad manager? I don’t think so, though. He could improve on his…sternness, so to speak?
And i don’t believe the Mets are embarrassing team, but rather that the New York media makes a big deal out of everything. I’ll admit that the Mets defense has been sloppier than it has in past years, but I don’t think they’re embarrassing.
You wrote letsgometsgo. It should be Lets Go, Mets Go. Your power of observation is remarkable, your respect for fellow Mets fans however is not. How can you write for a Mets blog when you insult readers and writers with your rubbish? This isn’t a term paper or thesis anyway, it’s a blog. Don’t be such an a-hole.
So when did everyone hit the panic button here? I hate the fact that the Mets are not in first place as much as the next guy. But to say this TEAM is an embarrassment is too much. Yes Murphy and Evans made some errors which they would not make with some experience in the league and at the position.
What I want to know is how come nobody and I mean NO-BODY is saying anything about Fernando Martinez’s ability to make himself look so sorry at the plate. He swings at pitches that are so far out of the strike zone they might as well have a zipcode.
Look this team isn’t playing that well I get it. I think what is more embarrassing is the fact that everyone is ready to sell the farm. Maybe that is why so many players hate playing in New York you can’t please anyone. One wrong play and you are thrown under the bus, tossed from a plane with not chute and buried alive.
ARE YOU EMBARASSED NOW!!!! Even Santana has gotten infected, you want to blame the injuries for Santana’s 6.50 ERA in June!
Mad era,
This team is embarrassaing and I wish it was as simple as selling the farm but we don’t have a farm to sell. The injury’s have hurt but the team just seems to not give a crap on most nights. David Wright strikes out twice a game(usually with men on) and everytime he steps to the plate I know its going to happen. If I could bet on him striking out I would and then at least I would gain some enjoyment out of watching them play.
last night when the mets were actually threatening david struck out after having the count at 3-0 and also swinging at ball 4. He puts so much pressure on himself that he can’t perform and thats embarrassing for our number 1 guy. When other teams have 3-5 players who can all hit when it counts and our number 1 can’t that is when its time to push the reset button. if they stunk then I wouldn’t care as much but another year of losing the division by 2-4 games and I might lose it. Right now there is no fun in being a mets fan.