This Is A Dark Ride

It was a perfectly admissible argument that Howard Beale advanced in the days that followed. It was, however, also a very depressing one. Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless. —Narrator, Network Goddammit, this is a dark ******* period. —Dewey Cox, Walk Hard Things can't get worse, they got to get better, a wise man once wrote. He wasn't writing about the Mets. Things might get better. They'll probably get worse first. We are several city blocks from just around the corner to the light of day. We are stumbling around in the dark, groping for the "on" switch. We seem likely to continue doing so for some time. At this point, even a mad prophet of the airwaves couldn't tell you much encouraging about the Mets. What they're communicating by their very conduct accurately tells their story. On a night when they gathered almost as many hits as they had in their previous four contests combined, they allowed all that ...