Mets Update

Every season I hit a slump.  It starts with missing a game here and there.  Suddenly I’m missing games for weeks on end, my minute-to-minute knowledge of the Mets reduced to nothing.  The past four weeks due to travel, a busy work and personal life, and other distractions I’ve not seen or heard a single Mets game.  Coincidentally, the Mets have played some of their worst baseball of the season in this stretch.  Yet they remain in first place because the Braves and Phillies slumps coincide with the Mets by some miracle.

Some may call me a fair-weather fan, but with the second half kicking off tonight with the Mets hosting the Reds, I will be making an effort to tune in again and watch my Mets, win or lose (until the next distraction comes along).  I haven’t been tallying Players of the Game so I don’t think I’ll be able to award Players of the Month for June or July.  It’s probably not worth it to go back and tally up all those games.

The big news in Metsville is that they have hired a new coach: Rickey Henley Henderson!  The Mets just got 50% more entertaining.  Watch as Rickey is activated to player-coach for a meaningless game in September.

For more of your reading pleasure, check Faith and Fear at Flushing’s Greg and his idea for the Mets as a two ballpark team.