I juts got back from baseball practice with my Little League team and I am trying to thaw out. Today was not the day to practice on a field about 100 yards from the Narrows Bay. It’s about 30 degrees here in Staten Island and by the Bay it’s about 25 degrees and even with batting gloves on I still could not get a grip on my fungo bat. But I can get a grip on the Mets as they sailed last night to an 11-1 win over the Braves in what used to be our house of horrors, Turner Field. Some observation from last night:

My Met of the Match came down to two guys. Oliver Perez and Jose Reyes and either one would be a great choice. Perez was outstanding pitching 7 innings and striking out 6 and not allowing a walk. But my Met of the Match goes to Jose Reyes who right now is arguably the best player in baseball. Forget stats and numbers and all that sabermetric stuff. If you watch Reyes everyday like we fans do, you know there is nothing that he can’t do. Last night he leads off the game batting righthander and drills a ball into the gap the opposite way to right center. With that comes the most exciting play in baseball today, Reyes running for a triple. To watch him live at the ballpark doing this is worth every penny you spend on a ticket. Reyes added another triple and an RBI single to finish 3 for 6 2RS and 4RBI.

During last nights game Gary Cohen said ” In the first week so far this season , you could say Rick Peterson is the MVP of the team” How true. Professor Rick’s students have gotten the lesson. Last night was a prime example. Perez not only worked quickly (remember Peterson told to mambo not waltz) and he was hitting that low strike zone.

The worst part about today’s game is it’s on FOX so no Gary, Mex and Darling and that just sucks. What’s McFullofshit and Doofus Joe going to do since they can say bad things about the way the Mets are playing?

Got to go as tomorrow I’ll have a house full of people and I got to get some last minute shopping done so unless Titan Tom throws a no hitter today I won’t be back here until Monday after attending opening day at Shea. It’s supposed to be near 50 degrees on Monday but we all know Shea is 20 degrees colder that the real feel temp. Ah break out the North Face jacket!

Everyone have a great Easter.

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