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As early as April 10, the Mets' faithful were already starting to pull their collective hair out. It was hoped for and expected that the Mets would get out of the box quickly so they would be right in the hunt immediately and the sting of 2008 could be left in it's wake.
I wrote an article then telling Mets fans to relax it's a long season and we would have a better chance for evaluating them after 40 games or just about one-fourth of the season. I even had a poll to see how many wins the Mets would have after 40 games. Here it is.
Author Poll Results
Mets wins after 40 games.
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10-20
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20-25
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25-30
- Total votes: 73
A full 89 percent of them predicted that the Mets would have 20 or more wins at least guaranteeing them a record over .500. Good job to them.
If I could have written this report only 6 days ago when the Mets had beaten the Giants on the road for the third straight time and had won 11 out their last 13 games, plus had a record of 21-15 and led the NL East, the content of this report would be quite different.
They lost the infamous "Steve Phillips" game on Sunday Night and went off to the hottest home team in baseball and yours truly went along for his annual trip to LA for the series and yet another trip to Venice Beach. I love that place.
Fortunately, I didn't make it to Monday night's game and just as well since I am one who remembers 1962 and to watch it all over again might have put me totally out of my now misery.
Let's say the only good thing to report about Monday was the impressive performance by Tim Redding. He did well in his first start back and actually deserved a better fate.
The Dodgers on the other hand in the first game certainly didn't look like world beaters and I was sure that the Mets could still leave LA with a series win.
As you know I'm not into re-caps and you all know what happened in the next two games anyway, besides it's different, very different, being there amidst a hostile crowd, (they were so busy hitting a beach ball around and throwing paper planes) they totally ignored my wife and I dressed to the hilt in Mets gear.
So now after 1/4 of the season, the Mets stand at 21-19 behind the Phillies by a game and a half with the resurgent Braves and the never go away Marlins still very much in the race.
Injuries have hit us hard in the last 10 days. Carlos Delgado and his hip won't be seeing action until late July or early August. Alex Cora out eight to 10 weeks or maybe more, and most importantly Jose Reyes going to have his calf examined this weekend in New York.
Seeing him move in warm ups the last two games and watching the play that has brought this to a head, I'm no doctor, but I believe the news out of New York will not be good.
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