Unfortunatley history seems to have repeated itself

The disclaimer in the financial industry is: past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. Unfortunately, this statement seems to be all too true when it comes to the Mets. The past few months, the epic collapse of 2007 was in the back of every Mets fans’ mind. With the lack of emotion and offensive output, as well as the ever deteriorating bullpen, it was hard to push the memories of last season out of my mind. The ups and downs of the past two months have tugged at the heart strings of all the faithful Met followers. This off season is going to be long and painful for the current Mets squad; and it should be. Their lack of effort and enthusiasm directly correlated to the second demise of the Mets in two years. While I agree that a better offensive output needed to be demonstrated, the bullpen was ultimately the demise of this team. Even when the Mets were putting up 8-10 runs on the board, inevitably the bullpen allowed the opposition to come back. It doesn’t matter how many points the offense scores if the defense can’t stop anybody. If you put on 20 runs but you let the opposing team put up 21, then you still lose. It’s going to be a long off season. Let’s hope that everyone involved in the Mets organization uses it to their advantage to stop the bleeding and patch up the wounds of this team once and for all.