David Wright hit a homerun in the ninth to end it — Mets win! Mets win! Mets win! — after I told John that Wright needed to step up and do something useful in the clutch, which he hasn’t done in a while.
And yet, I’m not feeling that this team is ready to make a real run at anything worthwhile. It all seems like a tease.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Hey Hank,I read your piece in the Cranberry paper. You obviously support the Clean Elections program and seem to be an intellectually curious person.You should remember that the plan isn\’t exactly voluntary and that two districts were selected in 2007 as a way of punishing the incumbents there. The selection process is a very political process and there is nothing clean or fair about it. Districts are not selected openly. The numbers are not drawn from a hat, but rather are the outcomes of serious political horse-trading.Then there\’s the nearly million dollars spent on hyping the program in the districts. When you spend more than the average candidate raises, to advertise a program as \”fair\” and \”clean\” and then label (by law) the participating candidates as \”clean\” it is an extreme form of coercion that for all practical purposes doesn\’t allow an opt out.But hey, it will make a cool lawsuit. I can\’t wait to read the case file.Keep writing!