The Mets were getting their ears pinned back by teams they should have been beating, so they reminded themselves that as bad as they looked, it was only April. The Mets will have to take some comfort in the fact it's a long season.
Fans do expect their team to get a big lead and then slowly pull away.
They were howling that the general manager hadn't brought a hitter to the team, and look how bad they were hitting. The Mets were 9-15 when they came home from an awful trip, and there is an axiom that you are what your record says you are. Valentine is a constant evaluator and re-evaluator. Some would say he's a tinkerer. There are those who watch things happen, those who make things happen and those who wonder what happened.