Yes, I know, I said back on that fateful May 18 date that the Mets were headed for the playoffs. I still think that. But I am worried now — very worried.
The Mets wasted many chances on what turned out to be an otherwise beautiful Sunday at Citi Field. And they wasted their greatest opportunity of the season over 12 early August games against the four worst teams in baseball not counting the history-bound White Sox. And who does count the South Side Sox anymore, anyway?
The Mets are a well-deserved 7-9 to start August, following their worst defeat of the season (at least until the next worst defeat) — an excruciating 3-2 loss to the scrappy but fire-sold Marlins. Yep, the Miami lineup of anonymous kids trying out for a future of their own made baseball’s best-paid team’s present worse.
