I agree with Mike Lupica 100%:
"Bernie Williams has 12 home runs and 61 RBI so far this season, and is supposed to be a player in decline after a great Yankee career.
Williams has been about as productive a hitter as Carlos Beltran, and has had more dramatic swings than Beltran has had.
Beltran came into the weekend, the second week of September in the first year of a contract that will eventually pay him $119 million, with 14 home runs and 65 RBI and a batting average of .271.
Big season?
Beltran never had a big week.
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You kept thinking that he was too talented to play like this the whole season. But he has.
He has, in his quiet way, seemed to be completely overwhelmed by the circumstances of playing in this city, for this kind of money.
You can talk about all the rest of it with the Mets, talk about Victor Zambrano and all the guys who couldn't do the job in the late innings. You can talk about Braden (Six Flags) Looper, and all the games he has blown. Looper also has a ton of saves. He has been much better at his job than Beltran has been at his.
Beltran is the one who could have made the difference.
Compared to what Beltran has given the Mets, Randy Johnson has been Cy Young."
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