Is that the white flag: Braves 7, Mets 1

Well if the Mets are good at two things this year, they showed both last night.  Those two specialities are injuries and making really dumb plays that costs the team runs.

I have to be honest and admit I didn’t even spend a second watching this game.  I think that’s going to mostly be the case from here on out.  The team is nine games back and that number is only going to get higher.  It’s funny to think of all the articles when everyone got hurt saying oh they can keep it to 3-4 games and be fine.  It’s going to be triple that amount at least before anyone gets back.

Besides the lack of postseason chances, it’s frustrating to see another positive cog go down.  Just a few nights after their most surprising position player (Gary Sheffield) goes down, their best pitching discovery (Fernando Nieve) takes a spot on the DL.  Either the Mets are incredibly unlucky or their trainers and doctors are the worst in all of sports.  I actually think it’s a combination of both.

And the final reason to stop watching is to send a message to the front office.  What’s happened this season is unacceptable.  And it’s likely going to be three years in a row now where fans will have a disgusting taste in their mouths once the season wraps up.  You could almost say four considering how disappointing the 2006 NLCS was, but at least that year was a success.  Omar Minaya needs to absolutely clean house this offseason.  And there’s a better chance that happens if people don’t go to games and no one watches them on TV.

But really, there’s only one person to blame for this awful season.  He cost the Mets Manny Ramirez in the offseason, he’s cursed the team with bad luck and he sent the ownership group into a tailspin.  And that guy is Bernie Madoff.  Let’s just blame him and forget about the rest of this 2009 season.