It’s a “Runnin’ on Empty,” kind of day for me, so Spotify is playing me the entire album. The second track is “The Road,” and I’ve always loved these two lines:
“You write about the moon
And you dream about the stars”
And later on comes this clever follow-up:
“You’re right about the moon
But you’re wrong about the stars”
So, in a Mets context – who or what are the moon and the stars?
Maybe the moon is the 162-game season and the stars are, well, the stars? And is there a star that has been written and talked about more than Juan Soto? Are we wrong about him?
They talk about Soto as if he is the moon and the stars. My question is, in year five of his contract when he is 31 years old will Soto start to decline? Or our generational stars immune to the aging process?
That’s certainly a question that should be asked.
FWIW, Bryce Harper just had his age-31 season and put up a 5.2 fWAR, the third-best mark of his career. And that came with him playing 1B, not the position he played when signed.