Not Santana's Fault, Remember A Guy Named Tom Seaver ?

If you're old enough to remember the 1970's, you will remember a guy named Tom Seaver. He was the franchise back then, and he didn't get run support, either . Johan is falling on some hard luck, but, he isn't the first NY Met Pitcher to have this fall on him. Tom Terrific, as they called him, played for the Mets, the first go around, on some pretty lousy teams in the 70's but always seemed to have good years on a bad team. This, if course, wasn't always the case, if you go back to 1974. 1974 was the year after the Mets made it to game 7 of the World Series. 1974 was a bad year for the Mets. They finished 20 games under .500 and what did Tom do? He finished probably his worst year, at the time, finishing 11-11. He pitched .500 for a team that was 20 games under. Well his ERA that year was 3.20. Pretty good for a team that wasn't playing for anything, since they were 10 games under, by 60 games into the season. Johan isn't the problem; 7-7 isn't bad for a .500 team. If the Mets don't score runs for him, it's hard to win. He keeps us in the game. The team just need to score more for him. ...