Does Sean Green’s ERA go up or down tonight? I think the fate of tonight’s game is directly correlated…

UPDATE: See? No earned runs surrendered; Mets win. I think that actually makes it inversely correlated, right? ERA goes down, Mets go up…

Whatever it is, heckuva job, Greenie!

Beltran’s playing like a Most Valuable Puertorriqueño. Delgado’s going the other way against the shift. David Wright’s hitting with men on and is maintaining an average above .300. Frankie’s 9-for-9 in save situations (including the last four games in a row!). Big Pelf is like “What’s that? You need someone to step up and be your #2 starter? Boom, I’m 4-0, including these last two starts against the Phillies. How ya like me now?” And #57 is out there looking like Cy Young should have been competing for a Johan Santana award.

Does it get any better?

Yeah, Reyes can get hot, Ollie can start earning his friggin paycheck again, and Sean Green can get his mojo working or get his bag packed (for real, we’d probably be better off with Shawn Green out there).

But we, being Mets fans, are used to taking it where we can get it, so being half a game out of first place today after being 5 games back two weeks ago is a nice start. It’s looking OK as of right now- the Pirates aren’t exactly turning the league on its ear, so to have them roll into town while we’re heating up is nice… Philly’s hosting the Braves, and that could probably go either way, and the Flukes… I mean Marlins (I knew it was a fish) are going out to Colorado, which might actually be good for them, what with all the pop their lineup has. So we’ll see.

I’m watching the Fast Forward replay of last night’s game, BTW, and that interference call on Reyes was BS. Oh, and I saw some of the postgame earlier- anyone else think Frankie sounds like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite? Whaddya call that new pitch you’re working on, K-Rod? “Iss a Sledgehammer.”

Elsewhere… I misunderstood when they said Manny tested positive for a band substance- I thought they meant that “the cream” and “the clear” were cork grease and valve oil. Where my saxophone and trumpet players at? Band geeks in the hi-ouse!

Then I misunderstood Joe Girardi when he said it was “hard for [him] to see baseball have so many black guys…” Turned out he actually said “black eyes.” Oops!

Finally, I’ve got to say hats off to the NYPD officer who caught Matsui’s home run ball at Yankee Stadium last night and gave the ball to the kid. That was a classy move… like something Norman Rockwell might have painted. Stuff like that keeps me from giving up on humanity altogether.