Story of the Season

David Wright gets nailed in the head. After weeks of waiting for it to happen, the final member of "the core" goes down. Early in the season, the Mets didn't get angry enough to retaliate when they had the chance. This time they do- do you really think Matt Cain was trying to hit David Wright on an 0-2 pitch? First Johan misses fat Pablo, Shawn Estes-style (another Giants-Mets connection). Pablo answers with a homerun. The next batter, fat Benji, gets hit. He goes on to hit the game-winning homerun in the 10th. Oh, and the Yankees keep on winning. What does that have to do with it? Absolutely nothing, but you get the point- this is one of the low points in the history of being a Met fan.

I also would like to apologize for my last post:

Bengie Molina's not hitting homeruns here and his groundballs are automatic outs as long as an infielder manages to stop it from going into the outfield.

Sorry. Did someone pass this post to the elder Molina? Jeez, hasn't Yadier done enough damage to us in the past couple of years? I take it back, please, do any of you guys want to play for us next year? We could really use a catcher.

David Wright Just Broke His Ankle Getting Out of a Cab

OK, just kidding. But would you be surprised? This season is very similar to the 1992-93 Ranger hockey season, when Brian Leetch did just that. Everything went wrong.

Last night was the lowest of the low. It started with Jose Reyes suffering what was called a major setback as he had to come back to New York and be examined the crack New York Met medical staff. After going back and forth in a pretty entertaining ballgame where they actually knocked around Joel Pineiro (I probably misspelled the name in previous posts, whatever), Luis Castillo out of nowhere slips down the dugout steps and turns his ankle. He's done for the season, I don't care if they're going to call it a cramp later today. After the fall, the rest of the team fell on the field. A 7-4 lead turned into a 12-7 defeat in 10 innings, with the go-ahead run coming in on a Sean Green hit batsman. We might as well trade this guy for Aaron Heilman, the deal would be a wash.

Yadier Molina has not stopped smiling in Flushing since October of 2006. What the hell are the Mets thinking running on this guy?

As for Reyes, this guy needs to determine right now if surgery fixes his problem and if it does, get it done.

We can only hope that next season follows the pattern of the season following the 92-93 Ranger debacle. One in which we will have our own "one more hill to climb, baby" moment if we reach the World Series.

Off to Citi to see what thrills await me on another Camp Day game.

Slide! Cardinals 6, Mets 4

Despite all the other blown early leads this season, this obviously takes the "worst game of the season" tag thus far.

Heck it could've been worse earlier. Oliver Perez walked the leadoff man on four pitches. He regrouped after that, but then it all fell apart in the 5th inning in typical fashion. Three chances to get one more out and qualify for the victory and our $36 million man could not get it done.

The Mets had an easy 5-4 lead in the 8th. Carlos Beltran, however, chose not to get dirty. Instead he steps on Yadier Molina's (I'm sick of this guy) foot instead of home plate and gets tagged out.

How much longer do you go with Daniel Murphy in left field? You think the kid has any pressure on him to keep up that .300+ batting average? He turns a line out to left field into a triple. JJ Putz finally gets knocked around and gives up two runs and that's your ballgame.