CHICAGO \u2014 It was twenty-something years ago when I joined a spectacularly unsuccessful Mets trip in progress, and future Hall of Famer Mike Piazza looked at me and quipped: \u201cOh, I see you\u2019ve hitched a ride on the Titanic.\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t recall the exact circumstances of that failing Mets team, but no way was it worse than what\u2019s going on with this $365 million Mets club right now. These guys are taking on water, and fast, and they need about 26 life preservers \u2014 more including the guys on the injured list, and Jorge Polanco, who added wrist sprain to his flaring Achilles<\/a>, may soon join Juan Soto and Co. there.<\/p>\n The Mets\u2019 ninth straight defeat Friday at Wrigley Field, the one that made it their longest losing streak since 2004, felt over by the time Cubs rookie Moises Ballesteros\u2019 three-run homer off Kodai Senga settled in the left field basket about 15 minutes into the 12-4 Mets loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have got to be able to put a consistent game here where we\u2019re clicking our best, with starters, playing defense, offensively,\u201d Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. \u201cThat has got to start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 It was twenty-something years ago when I joined a spectacularly unsuccessful Mets trip in progress, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[57951,10010,363,1189,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-591291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlos-mendoza","9":"tag-francisco-lindor","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}