The Mets are done for the season choking in historic proportions. Its one thing to lose a game that a team should have won but to lose in clumps a whole month long is rare. And it is unlike the Mets to do so, traditionally they were a come back by surprise team, unlikely hero's hence the tag "miracle" Mets or Met "magic", "you gotta believe", "amazins" and on and on. The implied pretext to all of this is "we stink and it would take a miracle, magic, faith..." and so the team has turned the corner and now magically lost. They've become the boys of spring-early summer the Aprilmayzins.
And since they've turned the corner then maybe its time to change the image as well. Its time perhaps to shed they're 40 plus year expansion team reputation. They're building a new stadium moving out of horrible Shea which is situated practically on an airport tarmac. They should also ditch their uniform and name. Uniform because by design the orange represents the long gone Giants and blue for the Dodgers. This team has to have its own colors and stop paying homage to they're opponents for the sake of fans long gone. Then there is the name Mets. Maybe not as pressing to change as the colors are but the name is synonymous with their underdog past and degrading nicknames to go with it.
The team needs a fresh start, a re-launch. They won when they weren't suppose to and lost when they shouldn't, both in a big way. The team is not horrible as it stands for the next year it would be a good time to forget all of it and start fresh.
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