Where did things go wrong?
Morning Dose: Monday, May 11
☀️ Good Morning:
It’s fitting yesterday was Mother’s Day.
Because how many New Yorkers have let their mothers down over the years?
And how incredible is it that they love us anyway?
That about sums up what it feels like to be a New York Mets fans right now.
Despite all logic telling us to turn away, give up, and disown this God-forsaken team, we somehow can’t. Even if we check in less regularly, flipping SNY on only to tell your significant other how you knew they would be losing, we still can’t fully separate ourselves.
Being a fan is similar to being a parent of an adult child. Your memories of a childhood version of them carrying a lot of weight as they develop into their own person that you no longer control but whose success dictates your own happiness.
No parent wants to compare their kids, but it’s hard not to when one is shining like the New York Knickerbockers, while the other is stumbling and bumbling their way to another loss.
To try to put things in perspective, Jeremy Sochan scored as many points on Sunday for the Knicks as the Mets’ lineup did runs over the entire weekend (five). The Amazins mustered 12 hits (!) in three games. They struggled to produce any hit on Sunday. Francisco Lindor has as many hits while sitting on the injured list as the team’s two other most important offensive players (Juan Soto and Bo Bichette) do over their past 20 at-bats.
🗓️ UP NEXT: A white flag? The Amazins will regroup from their nine-game road trip before welcoming the Tigers to town with Freddy Peralta on the bump on Tuesday.
📰 ABOVE THE FOLD
WHERE DID THINGS GO WRONG?
There are plenty of fans reading this newsletter who will say they told us where things would go wrong during the offseason. Those points were on full display this past weekend.
