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You ate a whole wheel of cheese?You had one of your speediest runners thrown out at home plate by 10 feet with nobody out and the heart of the order due up - twice in the same game? And you blew a 3-run, 9th inning lead?How'd you do that?Heck, I'm not even mad. That's amazing!How 'bout we get you in your p.j.'s and we hit the hay?***All I'll say about last night's debacle is that I was checking out...

Yes, yes, I'll get to the Mets salvaging a split this weekend with a fairly invigorating victory today. But first I just had to scan and post this picture I took in 1998, which I found as I was rooting around in some old boxes today. Why, you ask, is this picture noteworthy? It's not because we all needed a glimpse of Rey-Rey and his 90210 sideburns signing a few autographs. And it's not because of...

I'm not one to pile on or to live in the past, but the thought that was burning in my brain after last night's thrilling, stirring, amazing, 10-8 victory is that no way, no how, no chance would the Mets have been able to attain such a victory if Willie Randolph was still around. After the Redlegs put up that 5-spot in the 4th, the boys in blue would've packed it in for the night and started thinkin...

What happened to the mediocre team I knew and loathed?Some of us knew that, despite the flaws in this roster, the Mets had enough talent to compete and even win this division. But this is more than a little absurd. They've not only won nine games in a row, but they've won those games by a combined score of....wait for it....54-19. That's fifty-fucking-four to nine-fucking-teen. Not to mention four...