Stories of the Year

[Edgy MD]

What are your top ten, defining Mets stories of the year? Feel free to pick from the list below or add stories I shamelessly left out.



For the purposes of the survey, "Mets Owners Still Suck" isn't really a story, but "Mets Owners Demonstrate New Way in Which They Suck" is. "Mets Continue to Snag Attractive Wives" isn't really a story, but Wilson Ramos' Wife Announcing That She's Expecting by Flashing Wilson a Sign While He Is Batting" is.

• Bodie's First Season and the Weird Precedent He Represents by His Very Nature


• Bullpen Failure Epidemic


• Céspedes Stepped in a Hole, Ends His Season That Hadn't Even Had a Chance to Begin


• Defense is Pretty Terrible


• Female PA Announcer Debuts, Life Doesn't End


• Fired the Pitching Coach and Replaced Him with an Octogenarian


• Frazier Still Has Some Value! Who Knew? Vargas too, Maybe


• Hey, Smith Is Good After All


• Jacob deGrom, Not as Great, but Still Damn Good, and as Starved for Support as Ever


• Jason Vargas Threw a Shutout — That Totally Happened, and in Fact, He Heads into the Break Tied for the League Lead in Shutouts, with One


• Jed Lowrie, the Met Who Wasn't


• Jeff McNeil, Old-School Batting Average Title Contender


• Keon Broxton ... Did That Even Happen?


• Mets Celebrate 1969 Heroes


• Mets Fuck up Celebration of 1969 Heroes by Confusing the Living with the Dead


• Mets Honor Tom Seaver


• Mickey Callaway Deathwatch


• Mickey, Vargas Threaten Reporter


• Organization Gives Up on Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki


• Pete Alonso, Home Run Derby Champion


• Pete Alonso, Rookie Sensation


• Rosario Has Yet to Show Any Real Defensive Value


• Rotation Giving up Dingers Like They Were Bred for It


• The Torpidity of Wilson Ramos


• The Trade That Defined BVW's First Offseason is Providing No Dividends While Displaying Current Dividends and Promising Future Dividends Among the Guys Traded Away


• Three Veteran Outfielders Called Up from the Minors Play the Hero in as Many Days


• Tim Tebow May Be as Bad as All That, After All


• Tom Seaver Is Suffering from Dementia


• What's With the Fucking Ball?


• Who the Fuck Broke Brandon Nimmo?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Alonso blows past even the most wild expectations

Idiotic trade proves instantly idiotic

2nd year manager somehow worse in second year

Despite repeated attempts to bury them, McNeil and D Smith prove worthy MLBers

Starting pitching disappoints

Awful glove blunts Rosario's progress

No young or new relievers step up for a second straight year, despite ample opportunity

Guys on multiple teams hate Frazier who nonetheless is playing a bit better and hopefully will be traded

Mets fail to capitalize on unexpected struggles in Washington and Philadelphia

"Come Get Us": New GM is a Joke

[MFS62]

Mickey says he has learned from last year's mistakes, and shows he hasn't.

Later

[metirish]

Nothing to add here , I guess when you think things can't get worse the Mets never disappoint in that regard.

[whippoorwill]

•________(fill in blank for me) blown saves in one week

[Benjamin Grimm]

The good-news story of the year is Pete Alonso. The bad-news story of the year is the disastrous trade for Cano and Diaz, which I guess is a Brodie story.

[Centerfield]

In order:



1. Manfred and his fucking ball. As much as I get on the owners, I think nothing has hurt the Mets as much as this crazy, slider-killing ball. deGrom took a step back and has had to adjust by throwing more changeups. It's ruined Noah, Familia and Diaz. Wheeler has taken a hit. Gsellman's sinker has no bite. If those guys were right, we would be around .500 and within striking distance. It's all so stupid. He bitched all winter about speeding up the game, and then introduced this stupid ball that turned baseball into 4 hour slogs.



2. It wasn't Sandy. I don't think any of us bought it when Wilpon blamed the low payroll on Sandy. But now with Brodie in place and payroll having gone down, I think we can put that flimsy excuse to bed. Many of use hoped that with a new regime, the Wilpons would open things up and stop meddling. We hoped that they would stop being an embarrassment, stop the double talk, stop the incompetence, stop taking half measures and actually go for it. Instead, it's only gotten worse. This year I feel more hopeless than I ever have as a fan of any team.



3. Pete and McNeil. They are awesome. Smith has been great too. Conforto is having a solid season. So much to love about this team. It's shameful that they can't build a winner around this core.

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=Centerfield post_id=15508 time=1562681358 user_id=65]
In order:



1. Manfred and his fucking ball. As much as I get on the owners, I think nothing has hurt the Mets as much as this crazy, slider-killing ball. deGrom took a step back and has had to adjust by throwing more changeups. It's ruined Noah, Familia and Diaz. Wheeler has taken a hit. Gsellman's sinker has no bite. If those guys were right, we would be around .500 and within striking distance. It's all so stupid. He bitched all winter about speeding up the game, and then introduced this stupid ball that turned baseball into 4 hour slogs.