I thought about that driving to the Stadium today. My bad – I’ll fix it now. That did seem odd when I wrote it.

I was going off his post-season stats – and he missed the ’78 post-season, IIRC.

Two rings as a player. 1977 & 1978.

Johnny beat me to it.

The Mets are not loaded with immense talent. David Wright is a great young player (though he needs to be become a better fielder) and Wagner has been pretty good this year, but otherwise this team doesn’t have much. Reyes has been in an awful second-half slump, Delgado has been bad all year and is hurt now, Beltran disappears all the time, Glavine is totally unpredictable, the wheels finally came off the vastly overrated John Maine, Perez is turning back into the Oliver Perez who can’t throw a strike, and their bullpen is simply atrocious (Mota isn’t effective off of steroids and Sosa has been terrible and Willie overuses him; outside of Heilman and Wagner they don’t have anyone you can depend on to get an out).

So, like Johnny said, people should have seen this coming. Anyone who said the Mets were the class of the NL wasn’t paying attention.

On the bright side for the Mets is that the Phils’ bullpen is even worse than the Mets’.

As Michael Vick would say, I don’t have a dog in this fight but…the level of hysteria surrounding the Mets’ collapse is a true sign that people really don’t pay attention. After all, when you’re 50-51 in your last 101 games, I don’t think it’s a given that the Mets ever had “immense talent” on their roster, notwithstanding the overall lack of immense talent throughout the National League. They’re under .500 for two-thirds of the season. This is not a sudden collapse. More like a regression to the mean.