SOMETHING SHINES IN THE DARK

Sometimes, things that may be ordinary stand out like stars on a clear night, when everything around is so dreary, speaking of course of the New York Mets season and the incredible success of R.A. Dickey, and David Wright.

For a losing team to have a 20 game winner is something! To be a 20 game winner knuckleball pitcher seems almost impossible. To have the career that Dickey had and then to win 20 games is fantasy.

Here was a pitcher that was the first guy cut by the Mets in Spring Training a few years ago coming back and winning 20 games by just changing his repertoire of pitches to one particular pitch.

Watching him pitch in the last home game at CitiField in Flushing in front of the thousands of fans that cheered him on all season was heart-warming and he deserves all the adulation given to him. Getting into early trouble and behind in the score, yet holding up and going as long as he did was special, while striking out what seemed like all the names in the Pittsburg phone directory.

But it was the heroics of David Wright that gave him the permanent lead made it even better for the fans of NY. That was a special moment as a Mets fan, since he was their only consistent hero all year long, proves his value as a leader to the club, homering and extending his hit lead as a Met on the Mets all-time hit parade.

Unfortunately, the manager saw it necessary to bring in a washed up has been as a so called ‘relief’ pitcher who immediately gave up a 2-run homer made me sick and the look on Dickey’s face of impending doom, helpless in the feeling, knowing another game was about to be thrown away by the lousy relief pitching they have had all year.

As for David Wright, it only points out that if the Mets let David Wright get away, Dickey won’t sign and I will become a Yankee fan for sure. Dickey has stated publicly that signing with the Mets for next year all hinges on the Mets renewing Wright’s contract and keeping him here in NY.

If Wright goes, the team will lose everything, and Wilpon should be crucified, and then tar and feathered and driven into the Hudson River.

That’s all I wrote, folks!