Happy Tuesday

Anyway we can trade Guillermo Mota For Ronnie "Pat Burrell JR" Belliard.



It's amazing how easy it is to be down on this team. They have no real consistent pitching both in the rotation and in the pen. The lineup is down from last year. And our manager has gone from hero to goat in 12 months.

But it's all good.

This team remains the best team in the National League. They can and should beat every team in the playoffs. It now becomes a question of if they will. The Mets look about as bad over the last month as the '06 Cardinals did a year ago. Which is why the playoffs will be ever more exciting in 2007. Assuming we dont blow a 2 game lead with 6 games to go.



If the Mets blow this lead, it would be no one's fault but their own. We would remember this season as a major disappointment as we would remember these last 6 weeks of the season as some of the most depressing baseball we have seen in our lifetimes.

But assuming they are playing in October, it should be great. The team and its fanbase would not be overconfident. Many will figure out a way to call us underdog.

I watched the disappointment that was last Thursday with my father and yet again, he made a pretty awesome observation. He said something along the lines of, "there is nothing better than meaningful baseball. There is so much time between each pitch to speculate or get nervous or excited. Every pitch matters."

And its true. We are on the brink of the greatest sports theater that there is. And you can even argue that this week is the first real round of the playoffs. Lose and we are out.

Any reason to get even more excited about baseball is good enough for me.

Vaya,
Sip

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