There are times when you watch the Mets and dream about a bright future. You see Jacob deGrom mow down the Braves they way he did Friday night, and you see how Noah Syndegaard and Matt Harvey handled the Blue Jays last week and tell yourself "with a little hitting this team could win the division and make a run deep in the playoffs." Even if Wright doesn't come back until August and Murphy comes back and hey, we could be good enough to get it done.
But then the eighth inning of Friday night's game happens and you really start asking yourself again, "can we really win anything with Terry Collins as the manager?