It's over

After a bitter end to the Mets season a few days were needed to let things set in and put in writing. As we all know by now the NL WC game turned out to be a pitchers duel between 2 of the best in the game and in the end the SF Giants came out on top sending the Mets to the early exit.

The Mets demise came in the 9th with the game still scoreless, in came Jeurys Familia in that dreaded 'closer in a no save situation', Familia who this season saved a ML leading and Mets record 51 saves was immediately greeted rudely by Brandon Crawford who doubled to lead things off, up next was former Mets Angel Pagan who failed to lay down several bunts attempts eventually going down on strikes for the 1st out, the next batter was key but that's where the game was lost.

Up next was Joe Panic who Familia needed to for the 2nd out, had he gotten Panic the Mets were ready to intentionally walk Conor Gillaspie which would had force manager Bruce Bochy, who was ready to pinch hit for Madison Bumgardner, to get his star ace out of the game, and the Mets into the Giants weak bullpen. Instead Familia failed to executed walking Panic leading to the Mets having to pitch to Conor Gillaspie who promptly took Familia deep with 2 on and game over.

Madison Bumgardner was able to remain in the game and the rest was history, a complete game shutout as the SF Giants were now advancing while the Mets were sent home packing ending their magical season as baseball in NY was now officially over.

The Mets got a great performance by Noah Syndergaard who gave the Mets 7 scoreless innings but it went to waste. At times Syndergaard was the more dominate of the 2 but it was Madison Bumgardner who out lasted Noah proving once again why he is the best post season pitcher of his generation.

In the end Jeurys Familia was the goat and once again reminded us more of the Armando Benitez Mets days as a closer. Someone had to lose and it was the Mets who could not get it done, while Madison Bungardner did what he does around this time of the season and no one in the Mets lineup could figure him out.

Not even a great catch by Curtis Granderson was enough on this night, it reminded me of 2006 catch Endy Chavez made which led to the same results.

I was hoping for a long post season run but it all came to a bitter end after just 1 game.

The season is over and when it happened it didn't feel good to end things so quickly, but after a few days I can now appreciate the season that the Mets gave us in 2016.

It was a season of injuries after injuries and the Mets could had easily gave up and packed it in but they didn't. Instead the Mets showed plenty of fight and when you break everything down, what they had to do and who they had to get their, you are proud of what they accomplish. They never gave up and that's all I can asked for.

Terry Collins led the troops and he gets my vote for NL manager of the year and should be back at it again in 2017.

One thing we can expect from the Mets in 2017 is the starting pitching to lead the way again, and the options just got better with the likes of Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman adding more depth to their already stacked rotation.

The lineup and the offense will be a challenge for the Mets going forward and to me it all comes down to them bringing back Yeonis Cespedes. That is just one of the questions the Mets have to answer to in 2017.

So will the Mets be able to bring back Yeonis Cespedes?
Do you bring back Bartolo Colon?
Does Neil Walker come back or do the Mets let with walk away?
What about Jose Reyes and Jay Bruce?
Who plays 1B?
And who is going to do the catching?

These are the questions that the Mets will have to address in the off season, it will be fun dissecting the options going forward, but for now we say good bye to baseball in NY, but we can expect good things going forward as both NY teams have a bright future.