NOTE TO READER: If you checked out Lonestar Mets the weekend, you know that we experienced technical difficulties. We are back up and running right now, and I will be working to get my previous content back as well as posting new pieces. I am also working to set up my links section to all the other fine Mets Blogs out there. Since there are many great sites out there, if I happen to miss yours, please email me so that I can correct it.

Lonestar Mets isnt the only one back to business. The New York Mets shed the funk they were in for the month of June over the weekend against the Oakland A’s. I had a hitting coach that used to say, when your slumping the ball looks like a pea, when you are rolling it looks like a beach ball. Well the A’s must have brought their collection of beachballs Friday and Sunday, cause the boys from Queens were rocking the ball.

Saturday was my 2 year wedding aniversary, so the wife and I agreed to skip the Mets game and roll down to Austin, Texas to party on 6th Street. We wondered into a joint called Uncle Flirty’s to have a drink or two when Baseball Tonght was playing above the bar. We both pretended not to watch the ticker on the bottom of the screen and both let out a sigh when they went to commercial. When Baseball Tonght returned we saw the line:

A’s 0 NYM 1 David Wright GW double

We both highfived. We booked it back to the hotel to watch the highlights and reached the La Quinta just in time to catch Paulie Ballgame blow his lid and then David Wright double in Ro Castro to win it. (Yes, my wife is a very patient woman) It was a great weekend in Metsland and down in Austin.

Bring on the Cards!