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These are the types of games where you find out what your team is made of.  And frankly, the Mets are made of sh*t!  This is the worst regular season loss I’ve ever seen…and I’ve seen many.

You’ve got a 7-0 lead with first place on the line…how do you lose!?  Someone needs to explain how in the world you lose this game.  It just boggles my mind.

Pedro Martinez…you have a seven-run lead.  You can’t give up 80% of it.  I mean didn’t you win two Cy Young Awards!?

The bullpen is just the worst.  The Mets have lost five games to the Phillies this season and in four of them, they had at least a two-run lead.  Aaron Heilman, I tip my cap to you.  You were awesome and so was Brian Stokes.  The rest of you were absolute garbage.

I know Pedro stunk up the joint tonight, but I think all of us would take a two-run lead heading into the 8th and a one-run lead in the 9th.  The bullpen has to finish it off, and it’s too often that they can’t.

Jayson Werth should have been out at the plate to end the game too.  Ryan Church’s throw was not good, but Damion Easley made a solid throw.  Brian Schneider…I kept hearing before this season how you were such an amazing defensive catcher.  How about catching the ball and ending the game!?  I mean come on!!!  Are you kidding me!?  If you’re going to be as terrible of a hitter as Schneider is, then you better be like Rey Ordonez with the glove behind the plate, and he’s not!  Say what you want about his throwing deficiencies, but Mike Piazza makes that play without a doubt.

And then finally, the offense.  It’s tough to get too angry when your team scores seven runs.  But how many times are we going to see this!?  They light up the scoreboard early on, but then they do nothing for the rest of the game.  They didn’t score a single run the last nine innings of the game.  And Carlos Delgado and David Wright both grounded into huge double plays that could have scored more runs.

The season isn’t over…the Mets are only a half-game back.  But I keep saying this when the Mets lose games like this, there comes a time when all of these terrible losses are going to come back and bite you in the ass.  I hope this one doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it does.

I really see this season going one of two ways…they use it as a wake-up call and someone steps it up…or they fall out of this thing altogether because of this loss.  Gary Cohen talked about how this game could determine the rest of the season, and I completely agree.  The Mets are so talented, much more so than the Phillies.  But the Phillies have so much more confidence.  Tomorrow is just a huge game and I’m so happy to have Johan Santana on the mound for it.

Well that was some win!  Thanks to some generous scoring by the official scorer, Carlos Delgado gets five hits and is the hero tonight.  BTW, the Mets scored one run in every odd-numbered which I wonder if it’s ever been done before.

Pedro Martinez looked good, despite giving up four runs.  He had one bad pitch in the first and then a bad inning in the sixth but was very solid besides that.

David Wright and Carlos Delgado were awesome tonight.  There wasn’t much offense besides those two and luckily that was enough for the win.

Atlanta really handed the Mets this sweep…and the umps helped a bit too in the top of the ninth.  That was a bad call at first base.  Even despite that, Luis Ayala has looked very solid in his first two outings.  This is a guy who could make a difference in the bullpen for the rest of the season.

An awesome night for the Mets as they got their game to go in their favor and the Phillies narrowly lost.  It’s now a 2.5 game cushion for the boys in blue and orange…which gives them a nice little lead with about six weeks to play.  Man, this season is the definition of a roller coaster.

Quick note: the Mets need to go 19-14 to win 90 games, which is obviously very doable.  When Willie Randolph get fired, I figured there’s no way this team is winning 90 games and now it’s seems like they have a better than 50/50 shot at it.  Just amazing how well this team has played since Jerry Manuel took over.  Let’s hope it continues…btw if the Mets won Monday’s game, they would have 10 in a row right now.

Pretty sweet weekend to be a Mets fan.  The boys are pulling away from the pack in the NL East….goodbye Marlins at least.  I told you they’d fade eventually. 

Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez were marvelous this weekend.  I loved the fact Jerry Manuel let Santana finish what he started.  It was the best start of the season for both guys, which is certainly a good sign looking ahead.

The rotation on a whole has been awesome lately.  I’m very confident with our starting pitching.  It’s part of the reason the Mets have now scored first in 19 of their last 21 road games. 

Let’s hope for a Phillies loss in San Diego tonight and three-game lead in the division.  It’s exciting times to be a Mets fan.

Ted has said it right a number of times.  They don’t call them the Amazins for nothing.  I feel like a broken record, but this loss is probably the worst of the season for a number of reasons.

Yes, they’ve blown a four-run lead six times now…guess how many times they’ve come back from a four-run deficit?  0!  That’s right…a six game swing right there.  But besides that, this Pirates team is so atrocious on so many levels, there’s really no excuse to give up more than a couple of runs to them.  Absolutely pathetic.

The Mets had 11 hits and three walks and the Pirates had three errors.   So I believe that means the Mets had 17 baserunners…and they could only muster five runs.  Four of those runs came on two swings of the bat too.  I mean the offense deserves some of the blame but let’s get real here.

We need a new word in the dictionary to describe how awful the Mets bullpen has been lately.  They’re singlehandedly costing this team a spot in the playoffs.  I’ve never seen anything quite like this ever in my entire life.  I was actually reading a story about how the closer position is completely overrated.  Something like no matter who you have in the ninth inning, there’s about a 95% chance you’ll win the game when leading after 8.  Well the Mets percentage is barely above 80%…that’s how bad it’s gotten.

There isn’t much more to say that hasn’t been said.  The bullpen is almost solely responsible for today’s loss and I don’t know what the solution is.  I’m just in a state of shock right now.