Opinion: Haven't we suffered enough?

My apologies for not being able to write this Mets article sooner, but I finally found a few moments that I could write my thoughts down.As we head into the offseason, it was another disappointing season for our beloved New York Metropolitans. It wasn't an infamous choke down the stretch (2007) or a “choke” (2008), but better yet it was injury after injury after injury. The injuries were so unique and plentiful that even the backups got injured (see Ramon Martinez and Alex Cora). Besides the wonderful injuries that the Metsies encountered, there was plenty of off the field issues as well such as Tony Bernazard's challenge to fight the double a team and Omar Minaya saying that Daily News writer Adam Rubin wanted a job with the Mets. Plenty of entertainment to go around, making the Mets season more like a long episode of The Jerry Springer Show. Now as October begins, not only are the Mets not in the playoffs again, but our new hated rivals the Phillies and crosstown rivals ...