I love listening to sports talk radio…and watching some of my fellow Mets fans post their thoughts on social media. I get a real kick out of some of what I see and hear – ripping players, proposing ridiculous trades, firing managers, kicking general managers to the curb, and believing they can tell an owner of a business that they have to sell. Come on!

Even as a Mets fan, I am hugely impressed by the Yankees young squad put together by Brian Cashman – a combination of draft picks and young talent acquired by trade – especially Gleyber Torres acquired from the Chicago Cubs. And speaking of the Cubs, look at the job done by Theo Epstein, a combination of young talent drafted and acquired through trade. Neither team is perfect, they both have their own idiosyncrasies and deficiencies, but they are both exciting to watch. The Mets, on the other hand, are not.

I have seen when a deer gets struck by a vehicle, and is suffering, a police officer will take out his service revolver and put the poor thing out of its misery. Given the way the Yankees have been a virtual juggernaut, and the Mets have been like a wounded animal, it could just be that the Yankees put the final blow on the Mets season and put them out of their misery.

Nothing is looking good for the Mets right now…except for the starting pitching. In reality, the last two turns through the rotation, every starter has done a magnificent job. Zack Wheeler, Steven Matz, even Jason Vargas has rebounded from his putrid performances to turn in two terrific performances. Noah Syndergaard has been good, but not great, but Seth Lugo stepped in and put up four shutout innings. And, of course, Jacob deGrom has been doing the best impression of Tom Seaver in years, and is suffering the same fate that Seaver and Jerry Koosman became accustomed to – pitching your heart out and coming away with nothing to show for it. The thing is that the Mets starters can stave off the Yankees hitters. But, unlike Seaver and Koosman, these starters can’t go nine innings, it is a shock if they go seven…or even MAKE IT INTO the seventh inning. And we all know what happens once a team gets into the Mets bullpen…BOOM!!!