NY Mets at .500

This team has not been in this situation this far into the season since 2005. As Willie stated the obvious after yesterday's 11-4 loss to the Braves.
“[.500] is not acceptable. That’s not the way we want to play baseball. We’ve got to find a way to get on a nice little streak here and play more consistently. That’s the bottom line. We’re better than this. But, it’s up to players and all of us to keep working and find a way to get it done…"

Well if the players don't care, then its not going to get done.  You see players like David Wright, Ryan Church, that look to be trying, pissed off when they ground out with a runner on 3rd with 2 out, then there are others, that look completely horrific at the plate, at all times, and they look like they just don't give a crap.  Is that team meeting last Friday completely erased from these 25 players minds?

Here's Wright, on the losing streak and more...

"Extremely embarrassed," said Wright. "I can accept losing," Wright said. "Not easily, but every team loses here and there. But to go out and give the effort we're giving, to go out and lose without a fight ..."His voice trailed off in much the same way his team has.

"I just don't think we have the fire I would hope we'd have," Wright said.

Standing at his locker, most of his teammates already departed, Wright pointed toward manager Willie Randoph's office, then to the room where the coaches dress.

"The problem," he said, "isn't there or in there. ... The problem is with us, in here."
"Losing like this, I hope, would ruin their nights," Wright said of his departed teammates.

He didn't appear to think that it had.

"I want them to take it personally when we lose," he said. "I want them to be ticked off."

"If it was a matter of talent, it'd be different. If we just weren't any good, I could put my head on the pillow at night and sleep. But to got through the motions every night ..."
"It's hard to lose a doubleheader," Wright said. "It's actually hard. Ninety percent are splits. And after losing two and getting embarrassed, you'd expect to come out and fight today."

"And we didn't."
(as told to Marty Noble of MLB.com)

I mean, how do you go from this:
To This:

I mean, yea you can blame the manager for some of his decisions, but, is it his fault that 1 through 4 in the line up went a combined 6-16 with 2 rbi, and the rest of the line up went 1-19 with 1 rbi? Think about it.