Monday, March 19, 2007

spring training thoughts

In case you’re wondering where are the thoughtful, indepth analyses of games we’ve recently played, I’ll share with you a little secret:

I can’t watch ‘em. At least not on TV.

I want to see how our new pitchers are and I want to see the guys I cheered my lungs out for last year. But I can’t make it through a game (and, truth be told, neither can TBF). Even Saturday, when I had the house to myself, I’d settled in to watch the replay of the game, I started getting anxious about the time it went 4-0. (And, I still like listening to baseball more than I like watching it on tv, honestly. A friend of mine told me last year that that was because the rhythm is different.)

I think Greg from Faith and Fear In Flushing said it best yesterday: right now, we suck, and that’s hard to watch. I realize that if I am going to be a Mets fan, I need to learn to accept the territory of s-u-c-k as a birthright, but it’s not supposed to be like that this year. Right?

At least, hard to watch when I’m not there. Will be interesting to see what my reaction is to our under-performance is on Friday afternoon, live from Port St. Lucie. It’s hard to believe that come April 1 we’ll suddenly stop sucking and start playing like the Mets we all know and love… but I’m willing to be proved wrong.

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