Endy gave me a scare trying to rob that homerun in the eighth. The replay clearly showed that the ball was kept in play by Endy’s glove. If that stupid looking kid with the bowl cut didn’t try and catch the ball in a popcorn bucket, Gary Darling likely would have got the call right. Bring a glove or bare hand the baseball kid, popcorn buckets and stupid haircuts are no way go through life or catch a baseball, son.

Carlos Delgado’s night off was taken full advantage of by Julio Franco, hitting a two run homerun to give the Mets a three run lead. Is there anywhere on the planet the Mets look better at than that ballpark in the desert?

Jose is is hot, I mean damn hot, if he were any hotter he would burst into flames. I wonder if this is just a hot streak or if Jose has begun his plan to single-handedly revolutionize baseball. There is an article in this months Sports Illustrated. It is a piece on Hanley Ramirez, Jimmy Rollins and Jose Reyes. SI buried the lead here; while Rollins and Ramirez are very good players, none have the game changing ability or event the flair and excitement of Reyes. Barring injury, Reyes should prove to be head and shoulders above those two by years end and cement himself as one of the premier superstars in all of sports.

On the last game quick hit, John Maine looked great again today striking out eight. I think that Anna Benson and her sack of baseballs can stop talking now. This guy just keeps getting hitters out.

In my last post I referred to the Arizona Diamonbacks broadcast team as the worst announcers in baseball. Well during tonight’s telecast Daron Sutton and Matt Williams did something that I didn’t believe. In the bottom of the fifth inning they were babbling about Randy Johnson when one of them said to the other, “ya know when Abner Doubleday invented baseball, he wanted the pitchers to throw underhand because baseball is an offensive game.”

Carlos Quinton then popped up to end the fifth inning and I sat there puzzled wondering if they were trying to be funny or they really thought Abner Doubleday “invented baseball.” When they retuned to the telecast from between innings they started saying things like “when Doubleday invented the game, they didn’t have Sports Center. When Doubleday invented baseball they played in suits.” then when the inning was concluded they said, “Julio Franco used to play with Abner Doubleday.

Endy gave me a scare trying to rob that homerun in the eighth. The replay clearly showed that the ball was kept in play by Endy’s glove. If that stupid looking kid with the bowl cut didn’t try and catch the ball in a popcorn bucket, Gary Darling likely would have got the call right. Bring a glove or bare hand the baseball kid, popcorn buckets are no way to catch a baseball.

The Mets look to make it 13 in a row over the D-backs tomorrow pitting rag armed crappy pitcher veteran right-hander Jorge Sosa against Brandon Webb. If the Mets need to win this game at the plate, they sure are in the right place to do it.

Let’s Go Mets!