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The Mets won Wednesday, but that certainly didn’t diminish the stink from their awful loss on Tuesday, or the season-long stench that has clung to them. That and our usual trip around the major leagues which you can read in full if you please do me a kindness and upgrade to a paid subscription. Let’s get to it.
We have plenty to scream about regarding the Yankees these days as they are now 5-15 in their 20 games following their 3-0 loss in Tampa Wednesday, but let’s all thank our lucky stars we don’t root for the other team in New York, the utterly abysmal Mets.
Man, they are a special kind of bad this season, a season in which they were actually favored to win the NL East due in large part to the $370 million payroll owner Steve Cohen signed off on.
As we’ve seen for years with the Yankees, money isn’t enough to win a championship. Spending big only helps if you spend it on the right players and unlike the two-time defending champion Dodgers, the Yankees and Mets don’t do that.
But hey, at least the Yankees are usually competitive, usually in the postseason and at least a threat to win a championship, unlike the Mets, a franchise that counts just 11 playoff appearances in 64 years. Hell, the Yankees have been in the playoffs 11 times in the last 15 years.
While we were suffering through a second consecutive 17-strikeout Yankee nightmare Tuesday in Tampa, Mets fans were subjected to one of the worst losses of the season as their bungling ballclub blew a 9-4 lead by giving up five runs in the fifth, then watched the Royals put up seven more in the seventh inning for what ended up being a 16-12 victory.
The Mets have scored at least 12 runs in a game 202 times, and this was just their second loss. How could this have happened? Well, when your pitching staff allows 19 hits and walks 11, shit is gonna go sideways.
After a nearly 10-year journey to MLB, things did not go well for the Mets’ newly-acquired reliever, Matt Seelinger.
“I think you always want to avoid nights like tonight,” interim manager Andy Green said in what qualifies as a colossal understatement. “Nobody wants to go through that.”
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