A new ballpark was supposed to help stop the bleeding. But it didn’t. And even worse the team’s plans to open an brand new sparkling ball park, one of the finest in the NL was overshadowed by its cross-town neighbors, just as everything the Mets do.

And not only did the Yankees new stadium (not coincidently scheduled to open the same year as the Mets new baseball betting stadium) outshine the new home of the Mets, but the team also won the World Series MLB odds championship.

As for the Mets, a 70-92 season was hardly what the team and its fans had in mind. But it was typical of what has happened to this team over the past 5-10 years. It’s hard to make a case for any team being more pathetic in baseball betting over that time span than the Mets. Sure there are other teams that are terrible like the Pirates or the Royals, but those teams are expected to awful because neither spends any money to improve their baseball betting rosters and both play in two of the smallest markets in MLB odds.

But the Mets, in contrast play in the largest market in baseball betting and further, spend as much or more than almost any other team in the MLB odds. Yet they rarely make the playoffs and seem to find new and inventive ways to miss the post season every year. The best that can be said of the 2009 Mets is that at least they didn’t blow a huge lead in the standings in the last month of the season as they generally do.

The team was simply terrible from day one and never came close to contending. With virtually the same roster as last season the injury riddled pitching staff and powerless line-up will likely yield very similar results in 2010.