Same old garbage: Braves 5, Mets 3

The nice finish to the first half and the three days off made some people delusional.  Thoughts of a crazy second half where the Mets immediately turn things around, come from behind and take over the division danced in many Mets’ fans minds.  But reality set in tonight.  The Mets are terrible.

They’re now 7.5 games behind the Phillies.  When I said they’d be 8-9 games out by the end of July, some people thought I was crazy.  You might be right, but not in the way you hoped.  They’d be lucky to keep the gap at single digits.  They just aren’t good.

I like how during the post game, they’re talking about how it’s a positive because Ollie only gave up three runs in six innings.  Yay!  We gave the guy 36 million dollars, and he finally threw a quality start.  Congrats Ollie!

The offense is just so awful.  They had one inning of action and were lucky to get three runs.  The rest of the game was a lesson in futility.

I don’t know if anyone read Joel Sherman’s article today in the NY Post, but it’s a must read.  Omar Minaya hadn’t even called the A’s to see what they’d want for Matt Holliday.  Huh?  So the offense is the worst in baseball, and there’s a young All-Star outfielder available and you don’t even make a call to see what the other team would want in return?  What is Omar doing all day?  I’m on the phone making 100’s of calls everyday and many of them go nowhere.  But Omar can’t take the 5 minutes to call Billy Beane and say, “Hey buddy.  What do you want for Holliday?”

That’s his job!! What is he doing if he’s not even calling the A’s?  The article goes on to say that the front office is bad at returning calls and following up.  What!?  What are these guys doing all day?  Do they sit around and talk about fantasy baseball?  I mean come on.  They have a huge staff in the front office.  And no one has thought oh, maybe we should ask the A’s about that Holliday guy.  And this is a very disturbing trend in the Mets front office.  When I asked one member of their “team” who are the options to catch in 2010, I was told they’d worry about it in the next offseason.  Really, not a single person has been assigned to figure that out now.  It’s not like Omar is working by himself.  He has a huge contingency.  It’s absurd and unacceptable.  I want to sit in their offices for a week because I’m really curious as to what these guys do all day.