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We’re about to close the door on the 2010 Mets, but before the Phillies get started with their march to a championship, we figured we would give you one last update on New York’s second-rate team.

Yesterday, they fired their GM Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel.  Both deserved their fate.  Today, the Mike Vaccaro of the NY Post wrote that the troubled franchise should try to be more like the Phillies.  Aw, they look up to their southern rivals!

The Mets would be wiser to take heed of their other dominant rival.

It may be hard to remember this, but four years ago the Mets were the Phillies and the Phillies were the Mets. The Mets were in first place and seemed set up for years; the Phillies were stuck in a culture of mediocrity and had just traded one popular player (Jim Thome) and were about to deal another (Bobby Abreu). When they did, Pat Gillick, their wise and wizened general manager, warned Phillies fans “We aren’t contending this year. And we may not be a contender next year.”

Of course, by the next year, the Phillies morphed into the current Phillies and the Mets into the current Mets, and within two years, the Phillies weren’t just contenders, but champions. But Gillick’s message four years ago was simple: We aren’t winning this way. So let’s try another way.

 

This must burn Mets fans.  Like, real bad.  They have been falsely asserting their team’s dominance for the last four years, only to watch them come up short each and every year.  But the story is 100% correct.  The Phillies are in the midst of a dynasty.  A World Series win this year would absolutely cement that statement.  The Mets and most other teams would be wise to adopt their ways.  Or as Vaccaro says:

The Yankees are good at winning the Yankees’ way. Everyone else should model themselves after the Phillies — beginning with the Phillies’ favorite punching bags.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2010 New York Mets.