It's cliche. It's expected. It has to be done.
Tonight the Yankees will take on the Red Sox and start the marathon that will be the 2010 baseball season. Last year, for us Mets fans, felt like the longest marathon in the world. It was as if in the middle of the race someone attached weights and chains to our feet. We made it to end of the marathon, everyone makes it to the end, but it was not a delightful experience.
Well hope springs eternal. Tonight starts another marathon where mathematically right now everyone is at the same point. We all can boast 0-0 records and all having a share of first place. Every team has strengths, every team has weaknesses. Every team will have surprises good and bad.
As Mets fans, we need to channel what the marketing department of the Mets are telling us to right now. We need to believe in comebacks. We need to believe that this is our year. If we don't, then we are mentally putting ourselves behind other teams.
Win or lose, its baseball, and its back. Another summer of ups and downs and following the best and the most interesting team in the Major Leagues, the New York Mets.
Play ball, and lets go Mets.
-Elliot Teichman
