When the Mets have a 2-0 lead but allow 2 baserunners, you can’t say junk like “the Rays are the highest-scoring team in the American League… and they do that by putting together huge innings.”

Don’t they know that pretty much every time they say something like that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Two friggin 4-run innings (and we’re not even done with the 7th)…

Come on, Mets, you want to give me something for Father’s Day? Shut the Rays down the rest of the way and put together a 4-run inning of your own… before they call this game on account of rain.

- David Wright continues to be the man. They just showed him jawing with Big Pelf, and it was really nice to see him give the big man a boost like that. He’ll make a hell of a manager someday.

- I thought it was awesome when they were talking about Gregg Jefferies and Keith’s response to Gary’s statement about Jefferies not being well-liked by his Mets teammates was, “He earned it.”

Otherwise, I’m just glad last week’s over. How friggin brutal was that? Ugh.

I don’t like how the Marc Anthony guy on SNY is saying the Mets “choked against the guy who called them choke artists.”

If they choked againt Hamels at all, it was when they kept leaving men on base against him and “only” scored 4 runs by the time they knocked him out of the box. When he came out of the game, he was still on the hook for the loss, so really, he choked against the Mets.

Friggin Utley. Friggin Werth. Oh, well. Let’s see what kind of rubber game Redding gives us tomorrow.

Lannan walks Castillo to lead off the game, which should have spelled disaster for him but then he induces a double play and gets a strikeout to end the inning.

Maine, on the other hand, has his first pitch lined into Tatis’ glove, which should have meant he was going to cruise.

But we are Mets fans and we know better.

3-0 before the second out’s even recorded… Let’s just hope the ReplaceMets can put something together.

Now that they’ve batted once through the order while hitting into 3 double plays, allowing Lannan to skate while facing the minimum, maybe they’re ready to disrupt his mojo and transfer it to Maine.

He’s looking so much better after that 1st inning…

Jobu must be unhappy. There’s absolutely no reason at all why the Mets consistently don’t score more than a run or two when Johan starts. It’s gotten pretty ridiculous.

It’s also ridiculous that JJ Putz is so Heilmanesque.

There’s nobody else out there besides Ramon Martinez and Wilson Valdez? Ridiculous.

Speaking of Martinez, how the hell do you dislocate your pinky on a feet-first slide… Into home… With the catcher nowhere near you? You’re extra ridiculous.

Beltran and Reyes, I hope you get well soon.

Pelf, I hope you smoke those Pitt hitters tomorrow.

Maine, I hope you give Redding your flu so when he pitches, his mind’s not on blowing another start but on not soiling himself on the mound.

My only consolation is that the Phils face Peavy and are starting a guy named Bastardo. Heh. That’s ridiculous.

Now don’t F it up ;-)

I don’t even know where to begin. How about Pelf? Let’s go with Pelf. Starts the night with fewer strikeouts on the season than Johan typically gets in a game, and winds up fanning six. He managed to not balk, he went 7 strong, and had he been facing just about anyone other than Beckett, that start would have been worth a win, hands down.

Because let’s face it, Beckett was nothing short of awesome. I’ve been a fan of his since the 2003 World Series and was not looking forward to the Mets facing him- and he showed us all why. Utterly stymied the Mets- the one run they did score off of him was unearned- and he gave the Sawx 8 innings of solid ball. Hats off to ya; may you pitch that well every time you’re facing any team that doesn’t end in “-ets.”

Another huge HOUR from Santos- I hope he stays and Castro goes when Schneider comes back. Not that I dislike Castro but Santos is just a more exciting player.

And how about those middle infielders? What a night they had! Well, with Castillo, it’s been pretty much all year that he’s shown vast improvement, and that play in the 8th was tremendous. But Martinez? Could he be 2009’s version of 2006’s Jose Valentin? Time will tell whether he’s going to be a wise addition or just another over-the-hill Hispanic player for Omar’s collection/fetish/what have you.

Mr. Putz, it pleases me greatly to see you muster the necessary hormones required to put the scoreboard on lockdown. Had me worried with the leadoff walk there but you hung in and allowed the defense to shine behind you.

And Sheff- I’m so glad he’s getting in there and contributing. He’s getting on and scoring, he’s driving guys in… and he’s saying all the right things when he’s interviewed. I was happy to hear he’d joined the team, and he’s not disappointed.

Excellent team win tonight.

And thanks to the Yankees’ own 9th-inning come-from-behind efforts, only half a game separates the Mets from the Phils. Sunday could see us back in first, and it’ll be nice to have the momentum from sweeping Boston at their house going into the series vs. Washington. Because a few convincing wins vs the Natties could then snowball into a few more against the Marlins… And beyond.

Btw- I love that Keith Hernandez day commerciak, esp whe he tells the kid to say hello to his mom.

Aaaaanyway. It’ll be weird rooting for the Yankees tomorrow.

When Putz joined the team, I was excited. He seemed like a great addition- dominating on the field and a merry prankster in the clubhouse. And that name! A Putz in NY- in the Mets’ bullpen!- how do you go wrong? I was all set to buy a Putz shirt at my earliest convenience.

And the season started well enough. It looked like we were going to ride Parnell, Putz, and Frankie to glory.

Then our boy JJ decides he can’t get it up in the 8th anymore.

And by “it”, I mean “adrenaline.” He apparently told the FAN that he had trouble “find”ing adrenaline when pitching in the 8th, that “that’s where those two or three miles an hour are, [in] that adrenaline”

Can someone give brother man a friendly “WTF?” for me? How the hell are you unable to get friggin amped enough to come in to a 1-1 tie, facing the best team in baseball, knowing you will wind up back in first if you can avoid the sweep, and MOW DOWN anything in a Dodgers uniform? Is there not enough at stake? Maybe Jerry Manuel needs to go above and beyond gangsta and “get medieval on his ass.” Better yet, go all Cheney on him and bust out the waterboard if he even allows a runner to make it past 2nd without getting caught in a rundown.

Too extreme? Maybe when JJ comes in, Jerry can hand him the ball with one hand, and stab him in the neck with an Epi-Pen using the other.

Something.

Can we have last week’s Mets back?

Thanks to the Mets vomiting all over the field in both halves of last night’s 11th inning, Philly was allowed to move into a tie for first. Or, more accurately, the Mets dropped out of sole possession of, and into a tie for, first place.

Thanks to the Phils having an earlier start time than the Mets did tonight, when they won their game, they moved up half a game, and now sit alone atop the NL East.

I think we’re all pretty sick of looking at the Phillies’ nasty, crusty mudflaps.

What I do like seeing, though, is when we wind up on the happy side of an inning prolonged by an error, and when we have nine players coming off the field after a bases-loaded, nobody out jam which ends with nobody scoring, instead of the usual four.
So let’s see if we can hang on to win this one, finish the day still in first, and tear the heads off of the Sawx this weekend!