2009 for the New York Mets has only two outcomes. Win the World Series or call the year a failure.
I know full grown adults who have never experienced the Mets winning the World Series. It’s 2009 now, are you really nostalgic for the 2000 Mets? (link – The 2000 Mets Mean Nothing.
How about those Bobby V wild card teams? Remember those days with a twinkle in your eye?
2006 – is it really satisfying? It would have been OK if they had built off that (the way the 84 and 85 Mets are beloved).
A Wild Card isn’t going to cut it.
A Division title isn’t going to cut it. We did that in 2006 and mentally checked it off in 2007. Not good enough.
Going to the NLCS? Yawn. The playoffs are watered down, I’d rather daydream about 1988.
Going to the World Series and losing? Nope. Not going to cut it. I don’t want to go 25 years between rings.
The Mets need to win the World Series. This is a new start. Shea is gone and the Mets are flush with money whether they choose to admit that or not. Leave the losing over underneath the new parking lot.
They still need pitching (see here: Does Omar Hate Satrting Pitching?) ….oh yeah and a catcher and second baseman and two outfielders. Omar you have the cash (thanks in part to my tax dollars going to bailout Corporate Bailout Taxpayer New Shea Field – again nobody should use the corporate name until the Mets stop taking bailout money).
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I think the theme for the Mets every year should be win the world series or failure. Over the last three years I feel the Mets should have made the playoffs each year, should have won at least one world series and made two appearances. The reality is they only made the playoffs once and have not been to a world series at all. Total failure in my book.
Well there are situations where less than a World Series can mean a successful year. I always think about how great 1984 was.
Win or not, the stadium will be emptier either way…….