I am sitting here watching the end of the Netherlands and Dominican Republic game and I am in awe.  This is like watching a DIII baseball squad beat the Yankess and their starting line-up......twice!  The Dutch are playing hard, team inspired baseball.  It is absolutely shocking, or is it?  Seeing the Dominican Republic fold like this shows what happens when a ballclub pays as individuals.  It certainly looks like this is what happened to Team USA in 2006, with the king offender being A-Rod. 

Here is my point, I watched a Mets team over the past few years that have not played inspired team baseball.  I have seen a team that is not a cohesive group.   I have written over and over again about these feelings during the past few years, and in my spring training review below I point out how the Mets need to play solid team baseball.  It is refreshing to see that Manuel understands this and is trying to instill unselfish team baseball this spring.  I believe Manuel's message will become even more clear after this historic loss by the Dominican Republic team.  Let's hope that after the WBC Mets players will come back with a stronger sense of team baseball.