Flushed Away: Mets Collapse, Crash, Burn

For a team and a fanbase that seemed united on a magical ride in 2006, the honeymoon is unquestionable over, as Wallace Matthews observes in Newsday today. In hindsight, it may have ended on an Adam Wainwright curveball nearly a year ago - a pitch that even today seems an implausibly absurd way for that season to have ended. In a lot of ways, this organization has yet to recover, instead remaining frozen at home plate, waiting for a pitch to a hit.