Thursday, August 18, 2005

Mike Celizic spells out why the Mets have been so frustratingly tantalizing this year: "The cruel — and, unfortunately, accurate — thing to say would be that the fact the Mets are still in the hunt is less a tribute to them and more a condemnation of the National League, which has one very good team, the Cards, one decent team, the Braves, and a whole lot of teams that count one victory as a winning streak.

"The Mets themselves started the season with five straight losses, followed that up with six straight wins, and ever since haven’t won or lost more than four straight. After Tuesday night, they were 6-4 in their last 10 games, which doesn’t sound like a particularly hot streak until you notice that no team in the National League has done better over the same period. Only five others — St. Louis, Philly, L.A., San Diego and Cincinnati — have done as well."

Bill James once wrote that the ultimate Houston Astros season would be one in which they one a game, then lost a game, for 162 games. My Metropolitans seem to be trying for the same effect. When they picked up Pedro I thought it was a chump move, but if they had just three wins in games that he started and they screwed up they'd be right smack dab in the middle of it.




// posted by Bill @ 4:20:00 PM
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