Question of the week: are you optimistic?

[Brock Beauchamp]

How you feelin' about this team right now? Yeah, I know. But this is a season-long poll, meant to examine how fans' opinions shift over time.

[whippoorwill]

Sure. This can’t go on forever 

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had to vote no. Of course they'll get better than this, but it looks like the season is going to be a long slog that will end in late September.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I'm on board. These guys are too good to be this bad. 

[Cowtipper]

The year we weren't that optimistic, 2024, they did something. The year we were optimistic, 2025, they disappointed. I think this year will be like 2024. The Mets were 10 games under .500 on June 3, 2024 and look where they wound up. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's true. When people say "there's still time" it doesn't mean that April games don't matter as much as September games do. It means that there's time to put together a hot streak that will negate this awful streak. 

[The Hot Corner]

I believe they will improve and start playing better, but I feel they are digging themselves into a hole from which they will be unable to fully extricate themselves.  There are just too many holes in this lineup and pitching staff to see them making a playoff run.

[Lefty Specialist]

[MFS62]

I'm not optimistic.  The current roster and organization leave no wiggle room to make the necessary near term changes due to the ages and contracts of some non-performing players, lack of positional prospects ready to be promoted, etc.

And the owner hasn't shown an indication to want to change out the GM who put this together. He keeps having pressers when he tells us things will be OK without major changes. He needs to start a top to bottom reevaluation and put the team back on track.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Edgy MD]

May I never shine to AI-generated imagery.

[metirish]

I voted no , I just don't see this team winning 9 or 10 games in row or getting on a sustained winning streak ....I do hope I'm wrong of course,I was optimistic in the poll before the season, but then again I usually am