Adios Profesor, Hola Ganador

Finally back, after typing a few practice posts about the for the New Orleans Zephyrs I am no back and ready to cover the big show. And I must say what a way to start the Johan Santana era, a big win over the Fish. After being nervous all day after being nervous about whether the Mets would show shades of last seasons collapse, (which was mostly due to poor play against the Marlins). The new, less eccentric Mets came out and played a near perfect game. And as excited as I was for the win I must say I was a little upset when I read the article in Sports Illustrated about Reyes toning it down a notch, cutting the Professor Reyes routine and the post dinger 3 and a half minute hand shakes but hey, YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME and that is just what the boys did today.

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Both of my

Mets Maniac fans

I will be back next season a bunch of things caused me to stop this season but rest assured I'm still cheering for the Mets and hope you are to.

Why Bother

If your team name is not the Braves I have a question for you. Why would you even play the Mets? Just give them two of 3 and move on. Honestly, why even bother? Today the Mets beat the Giants 4 to 2 with all of the games runs coming in the 1st two innings. Wagner got the save. Believe me, I’m not trying to make the Mets into the greatest team ever, because I know and I hope you know that they’re not. But hey, it’s pretty tough to lose games when over the last two series the Mets have won 5 of 6 outscoring their opponents 28 to 17. LETS GO METS

Just Save it For October

TIMLEY HITTING, that is what the Mets need. They had 6 hits the Giants had 10 but the Giants won 3 to nothing. Shutting the Mets out for the first time this year. As far as I see it there were only 3 up-sides to this game.
1) Glavine pitched fine
2) Mota pitched more then fine
3) Zito picked up a win for my fantasy team
But hopeful the Mets are just saving all of their clutch hits for October when Beltran is up with 2 outs and the bases loaded and then bang a shot to the gap, instead of a backwards K.

Armando, Armando, Armando

No better feeling the revenge. That’s all I could think when I was watching this game. Flashes of game 1 of the 2000 World Series darted in and out of my mind as I saw Armando Benitez slowly un-wind. And any real Mets fan knows that once Armando starts to un-wind, he UN-WINDS big time. I have never seen a pitcher balk a runner two bases but hey, he’s Armando and there are firsts for everything. Then after he balked in Jose Reye, I said “this game is over” and what to you know just like that Carlos Delgado, BOOM, his second of the game and all is good it Metsville. However, the next day many people said that Willie needs to stop letting Franco pinch hit like he did in the bottom of the 9th, but to that I say there’s about a 1 to a million chance that that ball he hit turns into an out. But all in all, LETS GO METS!!

A Slap In the Face to the Yankees

Sorry for the late posts for the Marlins series but I was on vacation. Pretty much everything was hunky-dory as the Mets broomed the Fish. And Oh yeah the Yankees got swept by the Halo’s moving them to 13.5 back in the division and tied for last place. Isn’t it a bit of irony that the Yankees are tied with the team whose total payroll doesn’t equal the salary of the Yankee third baseman? Lets Go R-Days.

Oh Yeah and Mets

The Numbers Don't Lie, Or Do They

I’ve been sitting in front of my TV for a while and I just figured it out. Glavine and Smoltz play golf together and in golf the lower score is better so tonight when the Braves got less hits then Mets but still won it must have been like golf (which Smoltz is better at). But seriously I have never seen a more deceiving stat, every time I look a box score the Mets seem to have about a billion hits but 1 run, but because I’m such a nerd I calculated the percent of hits that score for every team in the NL. Apparently the Mets score 53% of their runners that get hits. You can look below to see the complete list but I guess the Mets are just due to start knocking some runners in. But the other issue is their inability to beat the Braves, which may prove problematic down the stretch, but as my 2nd grade teacher said “we’ll cross that bridge when we get there”. LETS GO METS

Mets- 53%
Braves- 54%
Fish- 54%
Phils-56%
Nats- 45%
Cubs- 49%
Reds- 54%
Astros-49%
Brewers- 53%
Pirates- 46%
Cards- 43%
D-backs- 48%
Rockies- 46%
Dodgers- 49%
Padres- 51%
Giants-51%