Dugout dances, Hi five dances...All this for nothing?

           The list can go on and on for miles but in my mind, The Mets should have maybe focused on batting practice and defensive drills and not practice dance moves and new hi five celebrations after they hit home runs. Its all of the little things that added up, Not just todays miserable 8-1 loss the last place Marlins, It was a ton of things just compiled up into one horrible month. I will get into todays game a little later but if you look at the past month or so, We can start off with the culprit in my mind who contributed to some of the Mets losses in Sept. Jose Reyes. Jose, ah what can i say about you? I love you as a player, your energy is second to none but in September the only thing you did good was fly out and not effectively get on base and not running out ground balls and also at times playing the defense that we all know jose never plays, Was he throwing games? Was he mad about all the MVP talk that David Wright took from him during the season? Who knows but i know one thing, I was one of the people in the stands booing him like crazy and it will continue until he matures and shows me that he can be one of the leaders on this team . I didnt mind the celebrations until this past weekend, Its like he took more time dancing in the dugout than focusing and trying to do the little things to win. I am very angry at Reyes's play over the past month.

  Now i will get to reason number two why the mets lost, Willie Randolphs managerial skills throughout the past month. Willie, I never in my life thought you were a great fit for the mets and frankly now, I dont even more. So what he brought the team back to its winning ways over the past, He never blistered me with great moves out of the dugout and if you look at the roster over the past 3 seasons, It was sometimes filled with greatness and if you look at other managers around the league who have to feed with much less than Willie has at his disposal, They do a much better job managing the game. I dont blame willie much for some things but i do blame him for the past month and every press conference quoted saying, " We are still in first place, So i dont know what to say". Yeah Willie, we were in first place for those days and given a 7 game lead with 17 left, we should have still been there popping champagne corks like the phillies are doing now but instead im here left laughing about what decisions the Mets will have to make next season and how they can try to fix this mess. Getting back to what Willie said, How can you say that we are sitll in first place every **** day in and out. We lost a ton of games to 2 teams who were in last place for most of the season and it was just like he gave the team a sense of its okay that we are losing but we are always going to be in first place. NO WILLIE, WE LOST, YOU BLEW IT. I wish one of the players would stand up since the chemistry is obviously out of whack the past few weeks and say that the team needed a jumpstart and willie did not once throw at a batter or once get thrown out of a game. I just wish the Mets still had BOBBY VALENTINE, He was my fav mets manager of all time and looking back to the days with Bobby, the days which he walked around and came back in wearing a fake mustache after being ejected just makes me wish we still had him around to coach this team, A team with much better players assembled and a chance at winning again.

    My third reason will go to.. drumroll please, the mets bullpen. Their bullpen has been horrid. Plain and simple, overused isnt even the word i can use anymore. The staring pitching is part of the problem in why the bullpen was overused and Willie in my mind also was another reason in why the bullpen was overused. He did not know how to manage a game and too many times, Pitchers were taken out after 1 pitch to a batter or even a 1 batter situational appearence. I dont get why too many times the manager never gets blamed for mistakes but this one obviously was Willies and mainly the lack of Starting Pitching that led to the demise of the bullpen and their inflated ERA in September.

    David Wright had a tremendous season and would have been voted MVP if the Mets didnt collapse and the Phils didnt make it. Now the honor will most likely go to Jimmy Rollins or Matt Holliday depending on the outcome of the Rockies-Pads game tomorrow. Davids season ended abruptly today and i just wish he could have carried them on his back like he did all season long. He has a horrible April but was amazing from May 1- Sept 30th. I find it hard to believe that with all of the disappoint, We can even find something positive about this team. David was that positive note and he will mostl ikely try to improve on his impressive season next season. Tonight after the game, David did not seem very happy and i have never seen David more visablly upset than after Fridays game and after todays game. He was the one with all or most of the heart on this team. He was the one who pushed this team to succeed on most nights in the ballpark. All i know is that after batting 324 with 30 home runs and a 107 rbis, He is the cornerstone of this team and not Jose Reyes as many people who emailed me tryed explaining why. Wright every game came to the park, took extra bp, signed autographs and also took excessive fielding. Reyes on the otherhand was clowining around in the dugout, laughing with other competition or just not being focused. I dont care if they won if he joked around but as for being at the game, Reyes was not out early in BP and also did not take extra practice. I just dont blame JOse as i still think hes an amazing player, He needs to mature more as was the case with David after last playoffs in which he didnt do so good. In my mind, after Wright was getting all of the MVP attention, Reyes did not like that and started pressing to try to get more Jose chants at Shea.

  The players that need to be gone in my book are...Paul Loduca- Paul was one of my favirote mets over the seasons he was here but he just doesnt seem to have it anymore with hitting. He has wore down in the second half and also been banged up more often than not. I think the Mets should save the money and platoon Castro with whoever the backup may be. Im just counting down the years until Francisco Pena is the catcher at Citi Field but which is still years away since he is only 17 years old now.

  Second player in which should be gone is...Tom Glavine. Tom Glavine is too old in my book and showed his wear and tear in his last two starts of the season for the mets. I hope he takes his player option and goes to Atlanta where we can beat him around for all of the miserable feelings the Mets fans are going through tonight and for the next 6 months or so. Glavine had a decent time with the mets since he came over from ATL but as i remember the paper saying back then, The Mets dont need Tom Glavine, The Mets need divine intervention on the post. They didnt need him then and i still dont think they need him now, More than ever after the beat down he was given today by a Marlins team who was in last place all season or most of it. I really dislike Tom Glavine and i dislike the way he let us all down today.

    Third player gone....Shawn Green. I dont have much to say about Shawn Green but all i know is that last season in game 7, He had a chance to give the Mets a lead in the bottom of the 6th and flyed out to right.  I still am angry about that and the one who bookened that inning , Jose Valentine should not be on the team next season as well. Green was a player who the mets maybe could have relied on 8 years ago but not now. they need to go in a different direction in Right Field and if they dont trade Milledge, Milledge should be the guy there with Endy backing him up along with Gomez as the other back up OF.

   Fourth player gone on this roster would have to go to....Delgado. Delgado did not fare well in this season with the Mets. I wish they could somehow trade him and get a good first base men in a trade. Delgado is in the decline of his career and after suffering yet another hand injury, Will only get worse at this point. I loved Delgado for the longest time with his tenure with the Mets but as of now, He just does not seem to be locked in or for that matter all season minus a few at bats. a 256 avg with 24 hr's his season was very disappointing.

  Now as of the 4, I can go for another 14 players in who i want gone but most of them on under contract. Delgado is the only ommision from that group who is still under contract but i can only hope they get rid of him or maybe keep him and hopefully have him hit like he used to. But judging from decline years, he is headed for yet another one and i hope i am wrong. Fact is theyre is plenty of mets i want to see gone from this team but it will never happen. What the Mets gm Mr Minaya can do is look to improve this team and hopefully get back a few healthy bullpen parts ( Sanchez and Padilla) and fix this team to get them back into title consideration.

         My next point is that Shea stadium has one more year left in existence and i can only hope that next year has a ton more thrills than this season has had. It was a rough season and based on the one remaining season at the greatest ballpark on earth, I just wish we can make some noise and close out the stadium with a bang, Hopefully a world series ring that i was praying for this season. You know, It sort of still feels like im in a dream world right now as i still dont like to believe that the Mets are not in the playoffs and have a big E next to their name in the standings which stands for Eliminated. This season had some moments but more bad than good in my book and this last month has been forever etched in my memory and i know in 40 years, I will be telling my grandkids about the season that was in 2007 and what could have been with this group of players. And as the slogan read your season has come all over Shea, It seems like it was gone Just like that.