Well, what do you know…. spending all your money on one guy doesn’t make you the best team in baseball. I’m going to tell you right now that I knew that was going to happen after it happened. Soto is a talent but I would have rather had 5 really good pitchers with that money unless they won the world series than I would have said it was my plan to get Soto all along. But that’s baseball or any situation where 20/20 is hindsight…. I know its the other way around but it makes sense that way too. If the Mets had made it to the World Series, than Stearns is a genius but if you don’t than Stearns made a bad call, but he wasn’t the only one. Soto should have been used as a DH more often, pitching went sideways really fast, injuries seem to look for the Mets, egos are big in that dugout with all that money, they need to try harder and earn that cash, especially on defense and maybe the biggest thing of all is that you need energy in that dugout. Jose Iglesias was a good player but he was also full of energy and he was contagious with that energy. Alvarez has that energy but he isn’t a veteran like Iglesias. I almost guarantee that Iglesias is the piece of the puzzle that made the Mets great, I’m guessing. I’m not in that locker room but on the field and at bats, that guy was pure emotion on the sleeve. He got people going, or it seemed that way and I noticed that you didn’t have that there this season except for Alvarez. You really need that. You need a never say quit guy, we can do it even though you are 5 runs down in the ninth guy, the I can’t believe we lost even though you were down 10 runs in the last inning guy…. I think that might be what the NY Mets are missing most. A spark.

Here’s a clue for you… retain Alonso, get some pitching and get that crazy energy fucker even if he is bi-polar. You really need a “never say die” guy.