The Starting Rotation: Only Santana has been reliable. We went into this season needing the trio of Maine, Pelfrey, and Perez to solidify the middle of the rotation. Maine is still on the DL, Perez spent most of the season on the DL and has an ERA over 7.00, and Pelfrey has been disappointing. Nieve and Hernandez held down the fort for some time, but could not adequately prevent the inevitable bleeding. Tim Redding is one of the worst pitchers I have ever seen in my life. I can't stand him. Watching him makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
The Bullpen: K-Rod has been great, but we went into the season needing Putz to be great too. He has been on the DL most of the time, and when he wasn't on the DL, he was bad anyway. Parnell started out hot, but is now struggling.
The Lineup: We went into the season needing Carlos Delgado to be what he was in the second half of 2008 and not revert back to his 2007/first half 2008 form. He was good, until he went on the DL, where he is still today. Reyes and Beltran joined him and remain there. Various other key parts spent significant amounts of time there. Replacements and hopefuls such as Tatis and Murphy have been amazingly disappointing, and there has generally been a huge drop-off in talent. Defense? - we won't talk about defense.
So that's it. Outside of Santana and K-Rod, everything else the Mets sorely depended on going into this season has betrayed them. Oh, and we have an utterly inept front office. You simply can't win like that.
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I absolutely adore the documentary on the Brooklyn Dodgers that HBO put out a couple years ago. Really informative, and really moving. I wonder what it would be like today if both the Dodgers and the Giants didn't move out of NYC. Imagine? 3 baseball teams in NYC? The traffic would be nuts, but damn - how cool would that be?
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