The New York Metropolitans… ahhhhhh… does it seem like this season has gone on for 7 years? Did they break a mirror? Walk under a ladder? Had a clowder of black cats cross their path? This team has the clear distinction of spending more money then anyone ever and have the worst record per square dollar. With Max Scherzer opting out of his 43.3 million dollar contract to go the Rangers and with the Mets paying almost every bit of his remaining contract except for roughly 20 million and with the Mets getting in return a prospect and nothing else, I’m going to say that this is the equivalent of the 2008 mortgage bubble burst where your house was worth a million dollars when you bought it in 2007 and was worth 300 K in 2009 and you still have to pay the million dollars for the house because you already signed the contract. The truth is that house was only worth 300K the whole time but the buyer was just not doing his/her due diligence. So what you are left with is a 70% depreciation on your dollar or in this case you are left with a team that is in 4th place with the almost no way of making the playoffs. The owner, Cohen, got a crash course in bad decision making and thinking that money makes world championship teams. What makes good players great is when they are undervalued and underpaid and they have to show why they deserve that big money.

Look, I know that the NY Mets are an electric team and are playing in an electric atmosphere with mounds of crazy waves of expectations surrounding them and ultimately creating an atmosphere that might be just too much to handle. None of the players played up to their caliber, not withstanding some of the rookies that did pretty good for their rookie years, as this was an off season for the Metropolitans but they have to keep their heads up and push through. Always fight to the last out and never be the person that makes it. The Mets will bounce back, maybe…probably not this year but they will come back next year with a little more focus and lot more humility.

LETS GO METS…… next year