Today’s must-read.
Harvey has never pitched a complete season and is 12-10 lifetime. While we’re not talking about the second coming of Tom Seaver, Harvey seems to be caring himself with a sense of entitlement and a “you can’t touch me’’ aura.
via Could Matt Harvey Become A HIgh Maintenance Super Nova? | The John Delcos New York Mets Report.
And while Delcos brings up the subject, YOU dear reader need to chill out with the Harvey. He’s 12-10 and out for a year. Fawning over a throwing session (Harvey Day tweets yesterday, really?) is like telling everyone you had a really pretty girlfriend at summer camp that nobody ever met….it just feels desperate.
Enjoy the team you have now and if Matt is part of some future we can enjoy it then.
You have to let it go, you have to move on, and you have to know the difference between 12-10 and 58-19 with a Cy and a ring.
I’m sure this post will be very popular.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
One day, we’ll look back on the Spring of ’14 as the beginning of the “Matt Harvey’s a pain in the ass anyway, so you should all be glad he’s in a Yankees uniform now” strategy.
I’ve said this before in other forums, but the only reason Matt Harvey’s behavior is an issue is because the Mets have gone at least 20 years without anyone in their prime who so actively wants to be the man and be in the spotlight the way he does (No, Reyes inventing silly handshakes doesn’t count). How uncomfortable he’s making the Metsiverse is more a reflection of the franchise than it is of him. Maybe with a few more divas on the roster, we could all watch playoff baseball more than once per decade.