The Mets Are Confident, So You Should Be Too!

In case you had lost faith in the Mets, reading these quotes will make you cancel those vacation plans you made for October:

“We’re confident. I’m confident,” said Johan Santana.

“We’re very fortunate in the spot we’re in because we haven’t played good baseball.  That’s the hope that we have, we haven’t played good baseball and we’re still in this thing. And if we could boom, run off 30 or 40 games of good baseball we’ve got a real good shot,” said Jerry Manuel

The good news is that Johan, Jerry and the gang are still confident.  And why shouldn’t they be?  Sure, the Mets have tumbled to fourth place and cannot seem to hit, pitch, and field well all in the same game anymore.  But this is still a good team, or so we’ve been told countless times by players and management.    

As Jerry says, all it takes is a “boom” to get this team off and running.  I’m assuming that “boom” involves something like Bay finally going on a power surge.  Or it could be Beltran returning to all-star form.  Maybe it’s Pelfrey pitching like he was two months ago.  I don’t know for sure what is necessary to get that “boom” going for 30 or 40 games, but if Jerry makes it sound easy it must be so.   

The bad news is that if the Royals or Indians ran off 30 or 40 good games they too might have a good shot at the playoffs, so that’s not really saying much.  But I bet the players on those teams aren’t confident like Mr. Santana.  More realistic, maybe, but being realistic doesn’t get you to October.

Confidence does, and the Mets are full of it.