Abandon All Hope

Another day, another Mets loss. Granted, the Rockies are a good team and the Mets are not.

What's disorienting though is that if it's possible I think I might have forgotten what it's like to root for a team with absolutely no hope for success.

That doesn't mean there's nothing to root for. Root for big seasons from Ike or Jon Niese, the Mets' two relatively promising (not in a Jason Heyward or Mike Stanton kind of way, but you know) youngsters. Root for another strong year from R.A. Dickey, their man of letters. Root for productive seasons out of Beltran and Reyes so that we can actually get something decent for them at the deadline.

And root for ownership to finally realize that this team is farther away than they've ever wanted to acknowledge, and that to address that you have to make broad, sweeping changes.

I don't know. It's easy to be negative when you're 4-7 and have lost six of your last seven games. They're not as bad as they've looked during this stretch. They're right when they say they've been a pitch away or a hit away from winning each of the games they've lost, with the exception of a game or two here or there.

The point is, what seems clear is that this year they'll lose more games than they win because they deserve to. Because they're not that good. It is what it is.

- A.F.O.M.G.