DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN!

The New York Mets are definitely a minor league ball club. They should be on an 81-game schedule that ends on the All-Star break, and they all should go home.

Year after year since the ’06 playoffs, they have quit in August, and this season they have it down pat, so well that they quit in mid-July.

The relief pitching has cost them 1^st place. A bunch of someone else’s rejects have come to the Mets and thrown away at least 10 games. The hitting has been competitive and David Wright has been a leader, both in the field and in the batter’s box, as has many of the young players they brought up from Buffalo.

How does Sandy Alderson fix the problem? Does he trade for more of the same in terms of relief pitching? Does he trade one of his young everyday players for someone else’s rejects? Collins has done a credible job for the Mets. He deserves better from the front office, and right now I would place this all on the doorstep of

Alderson and Wilpon. Wilpon for getting the Mets into a mess early on with the Madoff affair, and Alderson for his selection of relief pitchers, based on a protracted budget that was meant to just hold on with.

Since 2007 when they finished in 2^nd one game behind they went ’08 three games behind then in ’09  total disappointment of 23 games off the pace, ’10 they went 18 games behind and they finished in 4^th place, 25 games behind the Phillies! It is time for the culture to change, for the attitude in the front office to change, and for the team to start considering the quality they bring to CitiField in both ability and character.

That’s all I wrote, folks!