Mets conitnue to defy odds: Yankees 15, Mets 0

1 in 500.  Those were the odds.  And today it happened.  The 1 happened to the Mets and it cost them today’s rubber match.  In the bottom of the second inning, the Yankees had 1st and 3rd with two outs and scored four runs.  In the top of the third, the Mets had bases loaded with no outs and didn’t score any runs.  The odds of both of that happening is .2 percent or 1 in 500.  They don’t call ‘em the Amazins for nothing.

What were the odds of Luis Castillo dropping that pop up on Friday?  Probably about .2 percent.  What were the odds you blow a seven game lead with 17 games left in the season?  Right around .2 percent.

Baseball is about a game of numbers and percentages and somehow those percentages mean nothing to the Mets.  You have to give them some credit…they manage to consistently do the impossible.

Today was such a disgusting display of baseball there’s really no point to break it down.  Just remember 1 in 500 because that’s how this squad will be remembered…a once-in-a-liftetime group of underachievers.

Notes: Just wanted to link to this article to show I came up with the .2 percent from today’s game.  Also, it was pretty funny to see Frankie Rodriguez confront Brian Bruney before today’s game.  You mean someone on the Mets has a set?  Shocking!  You gotta love K-Rod though.  I feel for him because he’s the rare exception with this team.  They need more guys like him who will actually stand up for himself.

Johan Santana’s lack of production is starting to scare me.  I hope he isn’t hurt.  That would put the nail in the coffin to the 2009 season.

Jerry Manuel is really lucky half his team is injured or else he would be in jeopardy of losing his job.  Jerry might be the worst baseball tactitian I’ve ever seen.  He continues to make some horrid decisions and they almost always fail.  Sure, some of the guys like to play for him but what good does that do?  They don’t run hard, their defense is atrocious and they run the bases worse than my 4th grade Little League team.  So if you don’t make the right baseball decisions and your team plays like a bunch of morons, what good are you as a manager?  Jerry is escaping a lot of the blame for this season, and he should be counting his blessings.

If you can’t tell by this past week of posts, but I’ve lost almost all of my faith in this team.  I don’t really know why it took me this long.  They choked away the last three seasons and somehow we all got sucked into thinking this year’s team would be different even though the bullpen is the only difference from the past three years.  They just find ways to lose.  They’ll play great for stretches because they have a ton of talent, but the story always ends the same way…with Mets fans miserable after the final pitch of the season.