But last season, Grimm's group made the same inexcusable mental blunders again and again.
His benching of the rookie cornerback Dee Milliner, punishment for a few mental blunders.
The mental blunders and penalties were not limited to the offense.
The Giants' season of special teams lapses, mental blunders, fourth-down debacles and defensive disappearances... just like the 49ers game.
Half the time, I'm on the slot guy; how are you going to go after me?" His mental blunders, Sehorn said, are the result of trying to do too much.
They missed both aspects at several points last season, when he played in only 51 games, but perhaps not more so than during their horrific September, when his middle-infield pupil, Reyes, committed mental blunders and struggled at the plate.
The odds of them plummeting further could diminish if, over the final 49 games, the Mets do not mimic their listless display Monday, when a series of mental blunders resulted in a few private conversations between Manuel and the offending parties.
When Derek Jeter was on the disabled list, Nunez played with energy and verve and flair, which the Yankees needed, but was prone to making mental mistakes and base-running blunders, which they did not.
Sending out the invitation was an accident, you see, a great big techno-blunder, the result of mental diffusion and attrition.
