Winning Like Men

Down 9-0 in the 4th inning, the Yankees looked done. Shawn Chacon, last year's hero proved for about the 5th time this year that he was a one year wonder.

Somehow they did it. They came back. They won those games that the Yankees just win that absolutely kill you. They're so hatable.



So Jorge Posada drove the ball over the fence in right center field. He ran around the bases, euphoric. He had forgotten that he hasn't really hit for 4 years or that he throws about as well as Johnny Damon.

Then it happened. He reached the mob of all-stars with no personalities, Jeter at the forefront with A-Rod boxing out his other teammates trying to pretend that in any way the Yankees are his team.

Posada jumped up for glee and he looked like the biggest thing in the world that rhymes with Momo.

Not to be inappropriate or offensive, it's just that this guy looked like the singers of the Yankees classic, YMCA. He jumped up for joy and my goodness was it embarassing. He kicked his legs back towards his ass and held his arms to the side. You couldn't try to act like that. Even my Yankee fan roomate laughed. As big Maciej said, "I really wish I was a Mets fan."

(For those who missed this, it is worth catching the replay on YES. That's how painful it was.)

So the New Mets had a big win today.

Tommy had another solid start and the Mets were able to overcome a horrid rain delay to beat the class of the NL, the Cardinals 8-3.

Nothing about the game screamed out. Mr. Glass went ding dong and we got 2 more shutout innings from Team Heilman and Sanchez.

But of most importance was the Jose Reyes/Jose Lima handshake.

Anything that Reyes had done with his other handshake partners, Hernandez, Delgado or Wright failed to compare to what was about 45 seconds of the best television coverage of the year.

These are the New Mets. Young, dumb, and full of the ability to speak very broken English.

I remember catching a Jeter/Posada handshake a while's back. The handshake was the Cheddar Bob to Reyes' Rabbit.



Fact of the matter is, the Yankees are really a gigantic bunch of herbs. Just true herbs.

Not these New Mets.

With the Phils losing to Capy, Turnbow and the Brewers, we had ourselves a big night. We are back up 2. Wednesday will be a fun one. It would be awesome to clinch this series going into this weekend's showdown with the Bankee$ before Lima Time makes his third start on Thursday.

VCD,

SM