The Tipping Point

Just to ask the question... when do we, as a fanbase, as a franchise, reach the point of no return with this season?

You probably know the numbers by now, but to recap briefly: 10 games behind the Phillies in the loss column, 9 back in the division, 5 games under .500, the 22nd worst team in baseball by won/loss record.

At what point do you decide it isn't going to happen this year, no matter who returns from the DL? At what point do you start equating losses not with heartache but with higher draft picks? At what point do you ask yourself whether it's harder to imagine this team without player X/player Y anymore, or if it's harder to imagine this franchise winning a championship with player X/player Y still in the fold?

Putting a championship team together means never being loyal to any player. Rather, it's a game of value maximization. Is a given player most valuable to you as they are, or would they be more valuable if you traded them for a collection of other players?

I think that's the question the Mets never ask themselves. If they did, I think we would have traded Delgado away during the offseason. It would have been the ultimate sell-high move; from what I recall, the idea wasn't even entertained.

Oh well. Another lost weekend, another lost series, another lost pitcher. The wheels keep tumbling, tumbling, tumbling off.

What on earth can we do to fix it?

- A.F.O.M.G.