In normal Mets fashion, when something positive actually happens to the team or an individual player, something else happens else where in baseball that covers up the occasion. So, as Thome hit homer 600 last night, which is a huge accomplishment, but it blocked Izzy who reached save 300, which is also a huge accomplishment.
(The “and David too” was for Wright who last week who became the team leader in Total Bases, but I'll give him an article about that some other time).
It's hard to think about this as a Mets accomplishment, but Izzy started with us, and has now returned. We get a chance to celebrate his career that he made with other teams, and him as a baseball player.
Now granted, there are 23 players with 300 saves, plus Krod who will probably make it eventually. Knowing that, I can see why they are giving Thome more press since he is only the 8th player in history to hit 600 bombs. However, Izzy wasn't even an image to pick on the MLB.com main page. If I had to guess, it is because Izzy completed a pitching record and outside of Perfect Games and No Hitters, no one really clamors for. People barely show up to the ball park for hitting records anymore.
So once again, congrats Izzy. Wish we would give you more attention, but that just is not the Mets way.
