Storybook Ending for 2009
Here is my storybook ending the Mets can have this year.
- It turns out that the team that claimned Billy Wagner off of waivers was actually the Phillies and Ken Rosenthal's report was false. Pedro Martinez pitches horribly in a start with the Phillies and after Jimmy Rollins calls him out for sabotaging his team from the inside out to help the Mets, Pedro starts a fist fight in the clubhouse and the Phillies suddenly hate Pedro. The teams work out a trade with Pedro for Wagner straight up and Pedro comes back to the Mets to put up a .68 ERA in his next 4 starts for the Mets, including a perfect game against the Phillies on August 13 in Philly.
- David Wright and JJ Putz both come back on Sept 1 and both play amazingly from then on.
- Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado both come back later that week and propel the offense to a 13 game winning streak.
- Carlos Beltran suffers a setback in rehab and breaks his leg, but he comes back anyway to the Mets on August 21 because his team needs him. That day he hits a pinch hit walkoff home run aganist the Braves to eliminate them from Wild Card contention.
- Then on August 27, John Maine comes off the DL and pitches a shutout in Florida to eliminate the Marlins from the playoff race and play spoiler like the Marlins did each of the last two years at Shea.
- The Mets then go on to play perfect in the postseason and they sweep the Yankees in the World Series.
How does that sound?
Yah, sounds like a good ending for you. But I'd rather you make it all the way to the WS and then the Red Sox win, rather the Yankees even play in the WS.
That would be my Storybook ending.
Any thoughts on Billy Wagner? The Sox just picked him up.
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I understand Met's Main Man. Sorry. great ending, I hope that same thing would happen to the Indians! :)
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I don't see it happening, you would have to jump three teams to win the division and 7 teams in the wild card. It's pretty much impossible.
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Good stuff you have there, I don't know about Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado coming back soon enough to help this team. You may think that these players they have now are not enough but I think there's still time to make a playoff push.
I knew something with Billy Wagner going elsewhere was false. I think he'd make a great set up man, along with JJ Putz
Three closers are cool
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IF this were to happen, I would bow down to you cuz there is no way in heck this could actually happen. I hope it would, because the Phillies are all non chalant with everything they do now, and are just so much better than everyone else.
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You guys are in a weird situation, aren't you? You can't make any major moves because you don't know how good the team can be when healthy. You don't want to drop anybody who might be able to help you, but you have to be somewhat afraid at who might be hurt again next year. What do you do?
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