Wait Till Next Year

It's early, but the Mets actually came into this season with the slogan Wait Till Next Year. Just look at the starting pitching- No Ace. Mike Pelfrey has been consistently inconsistent, John Niese is a puppy, R. A. Dickey is a journeyman knuckleballer, and the pair of Chris' Capuano and Young are coming off injury. Now Young is done and replaced by Dillon Gee. Gee has pitched well, but he makes Niese look like a veteran.

Offensively, who in this lineup scares you? Sure you don't want to see Reyes get on base if your an opposing pitcher, but Beltran was still hurting coming into the season, so you were able to avoid Wright, who is now sore himself. Ike Davis is a promising slugger, but he, too is a puppy, as is Josh Thole who is suffering through what is the second half of his rookie season.

Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins must be wondering what they were drinking, um er, I mean thinking when they took their jobs. However, if they manage to end up not supremely sucking this year, they do have the makings of a decent nucleus for a team beginning in 2012. Just in time for the world to end. That is the next date for the Apocalypse if May 21st turns out to be wrong.