The beginning of the End.

Yesterday I stumbled on a website. It said a couple of sentences that the page designer felt described fans of baseball teams. The Mets' fans description is ""You really hate the Yankees. But obviously not as much as you hate yourself." Few truer words have ever been written.

I've been a Met fan since the womb. I will be a Met fan until I die. With that comes knowing each and every season will come with highs and lows. This year, there will be many, many more lows than highs. Like right now.

David Wright fractured his pinky sliding head first. First rule of thumb you learn in little league: never slide head first, as it increases your chances of fracture and/or concussion. The Mets learned that previously with Jose Reyes. APPARENTLY David Wright missed learning both of those, despite having done little league and playing on the same team as Reyes for his entire career, excluding the first 4 games of this season.

Those 4 games, the Mets won.
The next 2, played without Wright who has an injuring pinky, they lost.
What happens when a team loses 1/3 of their power? They score 1/3 the amount of runs. Prior to Wright's departure, the Mets scored 16 runs in 4 games, or an average of 4 per game. Since Wright's departure, the Mets scored 2 runs in 2 games, or an average of 1 run per game. APPARENTLY, without Wright, the Mets score 1/4 as often.
Since Wright does not produce 3/4 of the runs for the team, this shows how much morale he brought to the table.
Ideally, the Mets will suck it up and all be okay.
Ideally, I would have won the mega millions lottery.

"Do the Mets Know Who They Are Right Now?"

One of my best friends just IMed me with the title of this blog. She's a Met fan as well. When I crashed by her house on St. Patrick's Day, I talked to her Dad, who too is an avid Met fan, and we agreed they're be horrible. Everyone said that. They're proving everyone, myself included, horribly wrong.

I know it's only April. And I know it's the Mets. And if ANY team can make any lead collapse at ANY point in the season, it's the one and only New York Mets.

IF they stay healthy. IF they don't get ahead of themselves. IF the pitching stays. Then they won't be a failure.

Pelfrey was a pleasant surprise tonight. That doesn't mean much for the rest of the season.

But hey - 4-0 is a start that nobody can complain about.

Three days tied in first are better than no days in first at all.

2 games, 2 wins? This can't be the crappy Mets that everyone, myself included, was talking about all winter. How the hell are they managing to win these games? Are they that lucky? Or do they actually have talent? Or wayy too soon to tell? Probably the latter, but in all honesty - you can't count the middle out, either.

Looking at the team, the talent is there. It's been there in the past. Look at the line-up. While not every name is as recognizable as David Wright, whose still there, or Jose Reyes who is no longer with us, almost every name has done something in the past. Jason Bay has the power - everyone knows it, he just needs to let loose. Ike Davis' last year was cut short due to injury, but if he doesn't get hurt again, he'll be full of power. Same for Wright. Apparently, Lucas Duda, a name I'm not familiar with, has the long ball as well. - I know it's more than just the home run to win games, but every knows it doesn't hurt to hit them. With that in mind, the new ballpark configuration doesn't hurt either.

Already in these 2 games, they managed to score 4 home runs. Last year, 2 of those hits would not have gone out of the stadium. Now, many people have mentioned to me over the past few months they shouldn't have adjusted the ballpark, but adjusted the players. Wanna know why they changed the size of the field? Here: Someone did a study of when the Yankees played in Citifield. Many hits they got into the outfield would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium. God forbid the Yankees can't score home runs on the road, so Major League Baseball and the Mets decided to shrink the size of the outfield. For the Yankees, not for the Mets.

In all honesty, I can't tell you if the Mets will do better than last place in the NL East like everyone was predicting. Apparently, the Nationals were rebuilt to be better, the Phillies are always incredible, the Marlins are now magical, and the Braves are always supposedly better than the Mets. (As I'm writing this, the Mets beat the Braves for the 2nd time in a row. Which team is statically better now? I know the Braves don't have Larry/Chipper Jones, but games played with injured players still count, as any & every Met fan unfortunately knows).

All I know is the standings at the moment, and they have the Mets in first. Even if it is currently shared with the Nationals.
And yes, I laughed too as I wrote that.