Terry's Tonic: The Fight is Still There, But Maybe We've Got to Go Old School

Another night, another tough loss based on mistakes, bad bullpen play, and a glint of fight in the Mets offense. When the Kool-aid is hard to come by we go once again for a mixer of Terry's Tonic to help explain what went wrong last night.  Let's see what he said

“Everybody is as frustrated in this room as I am, but we’ve been in every single game but one” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “The fight is still there, but we’ve got to stop making mistakes.”

 Again, Terry takes a turn from the Jerry's Juice we were used to tasting so often last year and holds the team accountable as he should.  He's right.  It's bad pitching and mistakes that have caused the Mets to allow teams to come back and eventually win.  It's pretty much been the issue all season. 

With that said, there was one bright spot in last night's game and that was the return of Jason Isringhausen back to the Mets.  Izzy made his Mets re-debut last night coming in with two on and one out in the seventh and throwing a perfect 2/3 with the game tied.  It seems Generation K is finally ready to make its mark.  Isringhausen is best remembered as the one truly successful member of the highly touted trio of Mets pitching prospects who the Mets traded away before being given a full chance.  Izzy went on to be a very successful closer for the Cardinals, and the Mets were left with another mistake in letting him go.

So what do you do when you make moves, hold your players accountable, and still see there's no one left that's not making mistakes?  Maybe you go back to some of the old mistakes we've made and correct them just like we did with Izzy.  No one good to play second base?  Maybe we should go back and give Jeff Kent a call.  Need a good fill in for Beltran on his one in every three off days?  We're already paying Bobby Bonilla still, why not give him a ring.  Who can play for Jason Bay as he inches his way back after injury?  Why, who would fit better than, well, former Mets farmhand Jason Bay.

Of course I kid here, but something's going to have to give.  It's too early in the season to get too far down, but you never want to be fighting from behind like this.  The problems seem to be apparent.  Starters need to go deeper, relievers need to stop giving it away, and everyone needs to think and perform a bit better in the field.  We saw the accountability with the move to send down Boyer and Duda like we discussed yesterday, but I'm not sure how that will help if you bring up Igarashi and he throws away a double play ball that lead to a 2-run single by Carlos Gonzalez.

The Kool-aid is that it's still early, some things are going well, and I trust the new front office enough to think that they will make the right moves to keep us competitive.  At this point, all I can do is sit back, drink my Kool-aid and hope for the best.