I really don't know what to say. Just like Jerry said "We didn't get the job done". In no way was this the same type of collapse as last year. They went on cruise control last year. This season was killed by the injury bug and the lack of a back-up plan. With the entire AAA-New Orleans starting rotation starting at least one game you just had to know that we were doomed, again. Alou went down early and Wagner went down late. Many will say that management had no right firing Willie Randolph and that it's not his fault what happened. Folks, this is baseball. Every time a team isn't playing to it's potential it's the manager who goes. Personally, I felt that he had to go. He was always in "business mode" and didn't seem to relate to the players. I am shocked that this team finished where it did. They managed to grind it out until the end.
So 2009 brings a new home. I remember the one time I went to Shea, in 2003. (As a Mets fan in NW Ohio, it's tough to get to NYC.) Yes, I thought it was a total dump. But it was OUR total dump! All the years watching games on WOR-TV (for some reason our cable company carried it), ESPN, FOX and the '86 series on NBC did not even compare to being there in person. Maybe Citi Field can mean to my kids, what Shea meant to me.
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