Introducing a New Feature - "This Week in Wally's World"

Since I've been posting, Wally Matthews at Newsday has been the target of some barbs, primarily due to his anti-Mets slant. It seems every wekk Wally gets his panties in a bunch over the Mets, and proceeds to write some drivel. Until now, I have only picked here and there to opine, and had even stopped posting about him because his writing is such repetative tripe (Mets suck, they do nothing right, the poor junkyard guys).

Starting today, and continuing for as long as Wally continues his attacks on my favorite Sports team, I will post a response to Wally's crap. The comments will be there for you to either agree, or tell me I'm as stupid as Wally (which, let's be serious here, is highly impossible).

Onto the fun.

In this weeks version of Wally's World, Wally has written a column mocking the Mets lack of a slogan this year, after last years admittedly asinine "Your Season Has Come" (seriously, it is a good thing there is no slogan, the team has had crap out there for years. There is no need for it, just play the fraking games).

He proceeds to list several suggestions:

"This Time We Mean It."
"One Year Older. One Year Wiser. One Win Better?"
"Missed It By That Much ... "

and so on. He even caps it with a Green Day title "Wake Me Up When September Ends."

So, in the spirit of Wally's column, I have come up with a few slogans for him to use on his columns.

"American Idiot"
"Same Shit, Different Week"

Feel free to add some more in the comments.

Now, Wally a few years ago did show some sack. Back when some asshat gossip writer at the Post "outed" Mike Piazza, Wally, who worked there at the time, wrote a column blasting the guy. The Post didn't run it, and Wally took his pen and went home. Good for him. Since then however, it seems Wally has written a column a week abusing the Mets. Oh, he will occassionaly bash the team in the Bronx, but it is rare, and usually innocuous.

The best is how Wally always manages to put in a little pro-yankee stuff in the column. This week it was

"It wasn't like the Yankees, who had to scrap and scramble to make the playoffs, only to come up empty in the first round."

I'm sorry, they had to scrap? They spent $200 million on payroll. They should have walked away with the AL and won the WS. I mean, he bashes the Mets for spending and coming up short. Should the Mets use the Yanks of the past 7 season (no WS wins, one HUGE CHOKE in the ALCS) as a model?

You see Wally, if you want to use the Yanks as the benchmark, at least be consistent. You cannot bash the Mets like this

So far, this incarnation of the Mets, this $145-million boondoggle, hasn't been nearly as good as it was supposed to be,

And yet use the Yankees as the benchmark, when they outspent EVERY OTHER TEAM.

Did the Mets underacheive last year? Sure. Do fans remember that? Sure. Did the team improve over the offseason? Damn right. They added Santana, added Wise to the pen, got rid of Mota. Oh, and Pedro is now 15 months removed from surgery and is looking for a new deal. There is one rule that Wally is forgetting:

Never Underestimate Pedro

The man is motivated. A motivated Pedro is damn good.

Jose Reyes is focused. David Wright is going to get better. Oh, and despite your writing that Carlos Beltran is among the aging portion of the roster at not yet 31 years old, he had a damn fine season last year. Perhaps you should look at more than batting average, and notice that he was among the best on the team in August and September. He is only starting to enter his prime.

So, as we wrap this week, a recap of Wally's column.

"The Mets stink. blah blah blah. Yankees are good. Blah blah blah. The Mets stink"

That's Wally's World.

Feel free to post some comments.