Everything is ok....For Now

Hey all. Hope the 4th treated you well. Sorry for the delay today. There was a problem with the server.

I wrote last week about how huge last week was. Lose 5 or 6 and we have a problem.

Well we lost 5 of 6. We lost 5 of 6 and looked horrible doing so.

Our pitching stunk. Our bats fell asleep. Our gloves, notably Lastings Miledge's, got scared of catching the ball.




A funny thing happened though. We stunk, and our lead grew. Thats how bad the division is.

It was huge that the 1 we took cam from the Yankees. The season was split 3-3 and the Mets are still at the top of New York.

But still, for the first time this whole season, we went on a skid. We stunk. We SLUMPED.

Then Pittsburgh came into town, and all was good. We could bounce back and beat up on the NL's basement. Not so fast. Pittsburgh came in and thumped us 11-1.

Sip would have been panicking. But our league remained the same. We were still up double digits over the Phils. We were getting really really lucky.

So then there was Tuesday's game. We couldn't lose two to the Pirates. We couldn't lose 7 of 8. We needed this one.

And we got it. After 7 terrible innings the Mets came back in Old New Met fashion. A big 8th inning followed by one of Billy Wagner's most dominant outings and we were back.

Wagner threw strikes and more so, he threw almost only fastballs. He looked awesome, like a shutdown closer should look.

I'm not going to say that the Mets are back. What I will say is that they are fortunate. They could have slipped but they didn't.

Still, this last week was very telling.

As many of my inside have pointed out, the Alay Soler era may be shortlived. The guy is just getting KILLED. He doesn't appear to have an out pitch. It looks like he needs PERFECT control to succeed and he may not have that.

Then, there is Pedro. This guy has looked weak and fragile.



He is everything we feared when we signed him to a 4-year deal. Petey is going to take a start off then have the All star break. Hopefully he can come around.

As we get ready for the allstar break it is important that we close the first half strong. We need to keep this lead at 10. We have been so great in this first half, still we need to take this momentum into part II.

We got really lucky. This past week did not really hurt us. We have to take advantage of this break.

Over the course of this week we will review the first half and look towards the second half, the trade deadline and the season to come.

VCD,

SM