The 2015 Mets. The good old days.
Look at this wonderful group of players….this is the Game 1 Word Series lineup
RF Granderson – who doesn’t love CG? One of my favorite recent Mets. I miss him more and more.
3B Wright – it already feels like so long ago. At least David got to play in one WS.
2B Murphy – say what you want, but Murphtober was awesome.
Let’s stop there three players in. Don’t you already miss that more than anything this 2019 team has on paper?
CF Cespedes – Sandy’s second or third choice, but boy nobody was hotter or did more to carry a team than Ces did those 6 weeks. I guess he’s theoretically still here but seems gone.
1B Duda
C d’Arnaud
LF Conforto – wait, we can actually develop our own hitters? In Queens? Amazin’ He may wind up being the bridge from The Old to whatever is to come.
SS Flores – yes kids you can get to the World Series playing just about anyone at SS. Stop lecturing me about defense and hit the ball. And we’ll never forget him crying in what was almost a massive Sandy error.
There was a DH, Kelly Johnson. LOL.
And on the mound, The Dark Knight. As you know I like to kill Matt, but he probably did blow up his career pitching that September and for that we should always be thankful – but as I wrote that fall….no regrets, you had to go for it no matter what the cost…and the cost was what was about to come for Matt. And in that series we got one last Dark Knight fantasy where you guys thought he was the Next Seaver.
And don’t forget Thor and JDG in that rotation.
How do you not look back fondly on that team….already half-dismantled.
