Dumb and Dumber

"If he's so dumb, how come he's president?" —Gerald Ford's campaign slogan, as reported by Chevy Chase on Weekend Update, 1975 Those who cut the Mets miles and miles of slack for sucking as badly as they do point to the injuries. How could have we expected them to contend without their key players? I'll buy that. I'll buy that substituting for All-Stars and even regulars wasn't going to be easy. I'll buy that if you told me ahead of time that we'd endure most of 2009 missing mass quantities of Reyes, Delgado, Beltran, Maine, Perez and Putz (plus assorted other dollops of the disabled) I'd have no right nor reason to expect this team to be in the middle of a pennant race in mid-September. But I'd also have no right nor reason to expect what we've gotten. We've gotten dumbass baseball from the moment the season started right down to its final weeks. We've gotten amateur baseball from professionals. We've gotten n...