Now that’s Mets baseball. Take two of three from the Cheesesteakers helps the psyche of the fans and team immensely. And they way the Mets won was what how we have wanted to see team play by being aggressive. Hopefully this is the breakout for Jose Reyes as goes Jose-Jose-Jose so go the Mets.

John Maine was better than the first outing of the year but those five walks are butt ugly. Three of those walks came in the sixth inning so I’ll say it was fatigue setting in. The first two innings Maine was getting behind in the count early but he found his command in innings three, four and five and again I’ll site fatigue he lost a bit in the 6^th and the seventh when Feliciano took over.

I’m not going to kill Aaron Heilman over the Ryan Howard solo home run, and even though the long ball as hurt Heilman so far this early in the season it’s the walks that have me concerned, especially to Pat Burrell. Burrell lifetime against Heilman is 4/13 with a HR and 5K’s he gets ahead 0-1 then four straight balls UGHHH! Then up comes Geoff Jenkins (2/8 .250 vs. Heilman) and Heilman gets ahead in the count with two swinging strikes. Then he goes out of the strike zone, which is fine as you let Jenkins fish, next pitch Jenkins just misses and then Heilman misses and the next pitch Jenkins lines it to RF. Some days you’re the peacock other days you’re the feather duster. I’m not going to rant and rave over Heilman’s performance because it looks like it just command issues that Heilman is having as giving up walks and home runs are not what Heilman does. So I think we just have to hope that Professor Rick and Guy Conti can help Heilman get his command right.

What a shock, Bob Raisman talking out of his ass. No one is panicking about the Mets or the season we are just calling it as we see it. Think of Mets fans as the bad cops and Willie Randolph is the good cop. Oh and Bob thanks for reading the site!

Howard Megdal was a great column today on the Roberto Petagine of pitchers Nelson Figueroa.

Manny Parra goes for the Beer Leaguers tonight a pitcher the Mets have not seen a lot of but tomorrow match up Johan Santana vs. Jeff Suppan is top notch. I wonder if Willie will look at the numbers and play Marlon Anderson who is 7/13 against Sheets over Carlos Delgado who is 1/9 with 5K vs. Sheets.   Let’s hope Luis Castillo rubs some Ben Gay on those knees as he’s 7/16 against Ben S.

 Claudio Vargas is a no lose signing but let’s not lose sight that this guy is very hittable and gives up a lot of runs. Hopefully he goes to NOLA and works with Dan Warthen and becomes serviceable at best.

Let Michael Johns getting tossed off American Idol be a lesson to you kids thinking of trying out for the show. First, never ever try to sing and Aerosmith or Queen songs. Steven Tyler and the late great Freddie Mercury are two of the great rock singers of all time (the first is Robert Plant and if you notice no one on AI has the balls to sing a Zeppelin song)  Second, for all male contestants, never, ever wear an ascot on stage. You might as well put a sticker on your forehead that reads DOUCHEBAG because that’s what wearing an ascot makes you. By the way somehow some way Carly Smithson has to go next. It pains me to go against the Irish lass but her husband’ tattooed face scares the shit out of me.

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