First three game sweep with three shutouts since 1969, yes that 1969……

I usually kill the Mets for the of the head scratching moves, but tonight I wanted to just give credit where credit is due. The Mets were rumored to start Raul Valdez tonight but changed to R.A. Dickey after seeing the Phillies struggle against Tim Wakefield this last weekend. Dickey, followed Wakefield in shutting down the Phillies, my only question is can he pitch again tomorrow. So this was a great move by the team’s braintrust to get him in their tonight and get us off to a good start.Let’s go Mets!

The Mets defeated the Yanks 6 to 4 on Sunday night and were able to do a few things that have evaded them this season, winning on Sunday and winning a rubber game. However, I am not drinking the kool aid at this point. I need to see the Mets take to it to Philly and get out of last place before I will let this team excite me again. Even last night’s game made you run the gamet of emotions as both the 8th and 9th innings saw Yankee rallies. It also should be noted that the Yanks are not healthy and not playing their best baseball of the season.

Their were a few good signs of the weekend though that I do not want to ignore. Jason Bay looked like the player the Mets signed from Boston. David Wright seemed to come alive and look better at the plate. The biggest impact though comes for this team when the starting pitching does it’s job and Taka, Pelf and Santana looked great this weekend. It was especially nice to see Johan look like an ace and outduel another Cy Young award winner.

I really wish the Mets would become serious players for Roy Oswalt, I don’t know if I’m going to get too mad at the Mets on this one because who knows if he would join us anyway. We’ve heard in the past that he’s not a big New York fan plus we are in last place. If the Mets could move up in the standings and show him that we could be players then maybe he would see himself at the person to put us over the top.

The starting pitching is going to be so important as we move on in the season, not only do we want to be kept in games but also need to save the bullpen as we can see several key pitchers already wearing out. Between Dickey, Misch and possibly Valdez hopefully we can find one decent 5th starter and stay afloat until Niese gets back. I really think that Maine is not right and should not be back in the rotation anytime soon.

The Mets shape up pretty well this week due to the off day as it will be Dickey/Moyer, Takahashi/Blanton and Pelfrey/Hamels. This is our ballpark and the Mets can make a big statement by taking 4 of 6 versus the Yanks and Phils, something that even the most hopeful Met fan couldn’t have imagined three days ago.

This wasn’t going to work. There were too many questionmarks to overcome this season. None of us have any confidence in the Wilpon’s, Minaya or Jerry. However, we still have hoped for the best, but now one quarter of the season is over and things have gone exactly the way we predicted before the season.

We still feel hopeless about the management, Perez is still crazy, Maine and Niese are still hurt. Citi Field is destroying what should be a good offensive club. I don’t even get that excited anymore to watch games, even in the Subway Series because you know exactly what will happen before a game.

David Wright will strike out twice, someone will make a bonehead play defensively, someone will make a baserunning error, Jerry will pinch hit Matthews before Carter or Tatis, Nieve and Feliciano will be in their somewhere, and of course the inevitable losing 2 of 3 games.  I am just so sick of it, I really am. I have heard more Met fans saying they hope we get killed so another inevitable can happen and that is the firing of Jerry Manuel.

I really wish the Manuel era (or error) would just end, it truly saps my energy as a Met fan. I know we have no chance until there is change. Do I think Bob Melvin is the man to get this team into the playoffs? Probably not, but anything would be better then what we currently have. Changing Manuel probably won’t be enough but hopefully we can earn some of that faith back and hope that next off season, we can fire Omar, replace Melvin with Bobby V and sign some pitching. ‘Til then is it football season yet?