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Karma sure is a motherfucker.

Beltran goes dong twice.

Delgado goes dong twice.

And then there is D Wright who is quietly hitting near .340.

There is one thing in baseball that I find more important than most: cheap stats. A lot of people talk derisively about players "padding" their stats with bullshit home runs and what not, but for me, the name of the game is confidence, and all production helps.

Enter Shitty Steve Trachsel. Shitty got a win last night despite pitching, well, shitty. That is huge. There is nothing more important hitting a baseball field than confidence.


I know. I played NYC private school high school baseball.

But for whatever reason these Mets have woken up. Maybe it was AFOMG's frustruated tirade on Wednesday. Maybe it was Willie not getting his fix of fresh toasted sub.

Or maybe, just like me, this team sees something in our new kid, OBF Lastings.

It's an awesome feeling. I'm still in have-to-see-every-single-at-bat-even-if-there-are-2-outs-and-no-on-mode with this kid.

Either way, these New Mets are arguably playing the best baseball of my lifetime. We are a half game out of the best record in baseball and dominating a very tough team on the road.

We need to take a moment to pay a little respect to Carlos Beltran. It is unfortunate that this is New York and he is playing with such a huge contract, putting expectation at an MVP level, but right now, the dude is really playing like an MVP.


Despite missing a couple of weeks, the guy is right up there in a ton of offensive categories. Call it health, or being more loose.

I think all the credit goes to Carlos Delgado.

For the same reasons that teams were walking Delgado to get to D Wright is why Beltran is getting these pitches. Delgado is a flat out intimidator.

I guess I never really realized his imapct when he was hidden in shitty Blue Jays lineups.

But now, after the fact, I think about Shawn Green killing the ball hitting in front of Delgado and getting his huge contract.

I think about Vernon Wells hitting in front of Delgado in '04 and having a career year only then to slip dramatically in '05 after Delgado's departure.

We really have something here. When Beltran was in a groove hitting 2 in Houston in front of Berkman in '04 we saw what could happen.

All of a sudden Beltran-Delgado-Wright is just scary.

I have the pleasure of getting to watch a lot of games with the other team's broadcasts. The D-backs broadcasting team, led by one of baseball's best, Thom Brennamen, were just jocking the shit out of our middle of the order.

Who knows what will happen next. For the first time in years, I don't feel like a Met fan. I don't see a dark end in sight.

VCD,

SM