Fitting way to end game: Phillies 9, Mets 7

I decided I wanted to watch the game today with Pedro Martinez making his return to Queens and I couldn’t even make it to the second inning.  Ollie Perez gives up six runs in the first and I thought to myself, “Wow.  This is why I stopped watching…and perhaps this is why the Mets could have signed Pedro in the offseason.”

I continued to watch in the bottom of the first as the Mets rallied back for two runs but turned off the game after that.  There’s only so much I can take of the Nelson Figueroa/Pat Mitsch pu-pu platter of pitching.

I randomly tuned back and forth and decided to watch the bottom of the ninth to see if the Mets could produce something special…and the Amazins did not disappoint.

After three straight lousy defensive plays by the Phillies, I wondered if this could be the rare shining light in what has been a pitch black season for the Mets?  I thought Francoeur can do it.  He’s going to hit one out and give fans something to cheer about…finally.  But something even more rare happened.  He hit into an unassisted triple play.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something new happens.  I couldn’t believe what I saw, but that’s been the theme of the 2009 season…utter shock and disappointment.  So that will be the last of the Mets games I’ll tune in to see for a while.  To end things on a bright note…the Jets and Giants should be pretty damn good this year.  Then again, I thought the same thing about the Mets before the start of this season.