{"id":2035,"date":"2012-05-03T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:03:34","slug":"putting-the-sweep-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/05\/03\/putting-the-sweep-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Sweep In Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>The Mets are now 2-1 in series sweeps. \u00a0It’s never a good thing when you get swept, and it doesn’t even matter who the opponent is. \u00a0Obviously you tend to eye weaker teams with the thought that you’re supposed to get a few free wins off them, but that’s not how baseball works. \u00a0The Mets ran into the Astros while they were playing well, with the back of the rotation, with a still struggling Ike Davis, and with a couple of players affected by the flu. \u00a0It’d be as foolish to eye these three games and use it as confirmation bias that the Mets are a last place quality team as it would be to take the 3-0 sweep of the Braves as evidence that the Mets will win the division.<\/p>\n

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So it’s time for the Mets to crawl home and lick their wounds, reassess the fifth spot in the rotation, and maybe the last bullpen spot as well. \u00a0Meanwhile the Yankees just lost two of three to the team picked to finish last in their division. \u00a0The Phillies and Braves traded bullpen explosions through 11 innings before Chipper Jones made it 15-13, final. \u00a0Roy Halladay started that game btw. \u00a0Chris Schwinden or Roy Halladay, the result was the same.<\/p>\n

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Perspective. \u00a0Sweeps suck and the Mets have a lot of adjustments to make. \u00a0They’ve been knocked to the mat, but they’ve got plenty of time to stand back up and start swinging. \u00a0They’ve got a day to dust themselves off and go back on attack mode. \u00a0Certainly they could take this blow and keep reeling, but I think the Mets have shown a tendency to bounce back pretty well under Terry Collins. They’re due for some home runs, and hopefully as the weather warms up a little and Ike warms up a little, they’ll start hitting more. \u00a0Scoring more, winning more, and hopefully pitching better to boot. \u00a0May starts out 0-2, but plenty of time to salvage that. \u00a0The six games against the Phillies will be important in distancing themselves from them in the standings so that if and when they get Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Cliff Lee back the Mets have some breathing room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mets are now 2-1 in series sweeps. \u00a0It’s never a good thing when you get swept, and it doesn’t even matter who the opponent is. \u00a0Obviously you tend to eye weaker teams with the thought that you’re supposed to get a few free wins off them, but that’s not how baseball works. \u00a0The Mets … <\/p>\n

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