Thank God the
Red Sox won. Otherwise, I'd be in a much worse mood.
The horror of horrors is happening: the Mets' starting rotation is collapsing. Maine has been shellacked twice in a row. Glavine was lucky to get a win in his last outing. Now Sosa, who, like Maine, began so promisingly, has joined the parade of failure. And, of course, against the hated Braves.
I'm going to avert my eyes for a while; I suspect things are about to get very ugly. For those of you who could care less about the game, I promise no more baseball posts for a while.
Update: In an apparent effort to get me out of my funk,
Twiffer asks when Pedro's due back. Well, according to the
Mets' official site, he could be back by August. I shudder to think how big Atlanta's division lead will be by then.
Another update: OK, I said no more baseball posts for a while, but, in my
mustelid fashion, I'll be quick to point out that I didn't rule out multiple updates. Anyway, Joe Martini, who is both a Mets and a
Met fan (and thereby a worthy fellow indeed) takes a page from Douglas Adams and advises me, "Don't panic." (See comments below.) OK, we did rebound from losing another series to the tomahawk choppers by besting the flopping fish, with
El Duque coming off the DL and providing a strong showing on the mound. Maybe there's hope. Tonight we see if Maine has recovered from his funk.
Joe also accuses me of giving this blog a tautologous title. Any thoughts?
5/29 update: Rhonda Byrne's theory looking shaky! How 'bout the power of
negative thinking to produce positive results? See, I
knew that if I wrote that the Mets are toast, they'd turn right around and go on a big winning streak, just to prove me wrong.
Of course, my writing this probably assures that they will now go into a death spiral.
5/30 update: one of my pet theories is also in trouble. I used to believe in the "curse of the ex-Met"; i.e., that players traded away by the Mets or allowed to go as free agents would be poison when the Mets played their new teams. Now, it seems like they can be
candy.
5/31 update: Do I now have to worry about the curse of the
Met who never was?