I remember speculating, when he first arrived, that he might be the illegitimate son of Steve Garvey. I really had high hopes for Ike; thought he would be a big star for the Mets for a lot of years, kind of a shadow David Wright. His late season surge in 2012 restored those hopes, but when he started slow again in 2013 I gave up and accepted that he'd never be (at least, for the Mets) what I had hoped he'd be. My only remaining hope for Ike Davis is that his PTBNL is really good.