Happy May! The baseball season has been underway for about a month now so I think it’s time to check out how the Mets are doing in the standings, and to see how the rest of the division is doing. For the sake of sticking to my topic of New York sports, this post will talk mainly about the start to the Mets’ season, with a video of how a friend of mine and true baseball fanatic thinks the N.L. East leading Phillies (for the moment!) are doing. I’ll also include a Google map of the stadiums the N.L East teams play in.
So, how bout those Mets? Heading into inter-league play the last weekend of April against the Phillies, on the road, the Mets’ were red-hot. They had just completed a 9-1 homestand and were coming in to Philadelphia to face a Phillies team that was suddenly struggling to win games. Given the pitching match-ups, this three game series should have gone to the Mets. Alas, following an explosive Friday night, 9-1, win, the Mets seemed to struggle to hit and add to that pitching meltdowns by Pelfry and Santana, the Mets lost the next two games, dropping them out of first and half a game back, putting those rival Phillies into first place.
The Mets lost again last night, this time to the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2 in 11 innings. As the Mets website put it, “. . . rather than ease back down to earth, to mortality, the Mets suddenly crashed. And now they are burning.” It seems like the Mets can’t find a consistent pattern to take. They play well for a couple of games and then crash – and crash badly. Thankfully, this crash is coming early enough into the season that there’s time to figure out why they continuously crash after playing great baseball. I think the Mets will be fine for the rest of the season. Let’s be serious here. There is no POSSIBLE way they can play as poorly as they did last year. It’s physically impossible. So, from last year to this year, the only place they can go is up!
Here’s a video with a friend of mine who is a self-proclaimed “baseball expert.” I’ll warn all you New York fans now, there may be a slight bias in this video. Blame it on the fact that I go to school in Philadelphia and grew up among Phillies fans. There are so few people in this city who even know about other baseball teams! Anyway, here are her opinions on how the season is going so far, as well her opinions on some other topics dealing with the first month of baseball.
As I was saying, here’s the map of where the National League teams in the East division play. It’s organized in alphabetical order by stadium name. Interestingly enough, this almost corresponds to location North-South. Starting with New York and working down, the stadium names are almost alphabetical but those pesky Marlins mess things up! (I’m not even sure if the stadium name has changed from Land Shark Stadium to Sun Life Stadium yet so they could be really messing things up!)
So, that’s it, in a nutshell! This is my last post for my class but I hope to continue posting beyond. Thanks for keeping up with me this semester. For your enjoyment, here’s a link to the May 4th standings from ESPN.com.
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