The final nail

I really would like to write something new instead of the same old same old same old. But nothing changes. Why do I keep watching this stupid baseball team? No, not baseball team. The Mets are not a team. More like this group of overrated, overaged, and overpaid frauds.

The sweep is complete. The Mets lose 4 to the lousy, smelly, hicky Atlanta Braves and let's just kiss any playoff hopes we had goodbye. Before the game, Moises Alou goes on the DL and who do the Mets call up to take his spot? The legendary Raul Casanova, giving us a third catcher! Reason being he is the only major-league ready position player in the minors. Unbelievable.

And tonight's game was very predictable. Beltran and Delgado homer on back-to-back pitches for a 2-0 lead. After that, Hudson retired 11 Mets in a row. After that Castillo singles, and Wright grounds into a double play. Meanwhile, the Savior, Johan Santana is cruising through six. Going into the seventh, they're up 2-1 and I was feeling ok. Not confident, but we'll call it cautious optimism. Then just like a horror movie, the nightmare kicks in. First Beltran is on second with no one out, gets caught caught in a run down, and he's out. Onto the bottom half. That little bastard Kelly Johnson doubles and Hudson sacrifices him to third. Four straight singles and we're down 4-2. And Johan only gets out of it when he gets Francoeur to ground into a double play. I wanted to believe but I knew the game was all but done.

Onto the eighth inning. Endy Chavez who has fallen off the map like Pluto has fallen off the solar system bunts out. Ryan Church comes back from his concussion and singles. Then Reyes gets in an infield single and the tying runs are on. Up comes Castillo. The man who got a 4 years contract! The ideal number two hitter behind Reyes! A nice easy grounder back to the mound. 1-6-3 double play inning over.

But the best is yet to come. Onto the ninth inning. Now Wright is facing Manny Acosta. Ground ball, base hit. As soon as he hit it, I said to myself "How are they going to find a way to not score this time." It wasn't if, it was how. The how goes like this. Beltran smashes the ball on a line. Straight to Johnson. Wright pulls a Reyes/Beltran and gets doubled off at first. Another double play. Finally Delgado lines a shot to center and Mark "broken back" Kotsay dives, makes the catch, and ends it.

There's very little left to say. Just this. I am disgusted with this franchise from the top all the way down. I want this team to be sellers at the trade deadline. Fire the GM, fire the manager, trade absolutely anyone possible and get some youth in this depleted farm system.