Thank You R.A. Dickey.
Thank you for everything you have done for the Mets this season. Thank you for your knuckleball, your attitude, your ability, your mindset, your hope and your stats.
Thank you for giving us Mets fans a reason to watch this season. Your knuckleball was unlike anything this franchise has seen in a while, or really baseball has seen in a while thanks to its speed and dance. The way you started this season, 6-0, was historic and surprising. The success at such a low price made Oliver Perez a “little” more tolerable.
But really, thank your hope. Your story about how you arrived at Spring Training on a bike and ended up being our most reliable is inspiring. Every time you started, I thought “OK, no hitter time.” Every time you started, I expected a Mets win. Every time you started, I saw a player who expected to win and expected his teammates to win. Your attitude needs to be replicated on every baseball team, bur especially our team, the New York Mets, who look to lose drive and will power. But you never lost the will, lost that drive, never lost the edge.
Thank your Robert Allen for keeping Mets baseball fun.
-Elliot Teichman
PS:
Thank you for how you raise your children. It is inspiring to hear that you want your children to understand the human condition. If more children could be raised in a home that drove the point of understanding compassion home, the Nation and the world would be a much better place.
Nice comments about the kids