1. The Phillies suck, too.
2. Anyone who says the Mets suck is delusional.

Personally, I believe #2. Even as a Mets fan, I don’t believe the Phillies suck and I don’t need to comfort myself by pretending they do. The Phillies are a strong team. I know its going to be a big game every time the Mets and Phils face each other. Both teams have had a bad first half (I won’t allow the Marlins into this discussion since I agree with the poster who says they’re lucky… although its hard to STAY lucky for 3+ months so I may end up eating crow… who knows?). Both teams are looking toward a better second half. Momentum is with the Mets… but this is baseball and momentum is fickle… and there’s a big break coming up.

I won’t point to last year’s collapse as proof of anything any more than 1964′s collapse is counterproof of anything. Living in the past is as delusional as saying the Mets/Phils suck. This is a new year. You can HOPE for the same result but predicting it is… well… dumb. I wouldn’t count on an event that’s only occurred twice in 30+ years happening in back to back years.

Good luck defending the NL East championship. I know, from 2006, it was a lot more relaxing watching my team run rough shod all over the division… but this is a really fun ride to be on. I’ll confess my hypocrisy, though. I’m sure I feel a close race is fun because MY team is in 2nd place. If the Mets take the lead, I’ll be the first to say “Ride’s over!” and want everyone to just start losing so the Mets can easily coast to the playoffs… and no, that’s not a prediction, just a desire. On the grand list of desires, I’d prefer someone pay off my mortgage, car, college education for my 3 little ones and maybe send me to Hawaii for a vacation… never been, would love to see. :)

Anyways, let’s beat Haren tomorrow. That’ll mean we’ve won 3 of the last 4 series and we’ll come back refreshed for the 2nd half of the season hopefully with a new starting pitcher.

It’s just occured to me the Gillick ‘retirement’ situation has become a distraction and there are too many mixed messages and indecisions. We do not have a direction, we coast and hope for the best.

the phillies are not out of it, anything can happen, but to say that the mets are a horrible team and they always choke, have no heart etc. is ridiculous…they are good enough to win the division, end of story.

how do the Mets “always choke”? They did that last year and the year before were in game 7 of the NLCS. The Phillies haven’t won a playoff game in 15 years. I’m a Phils fan and don’t want to pick on them, but facts are facts. The Mets are better and are favorites to win the division.

It was reported today that Church is NOT done for the year, in fact he was right all along and only had migraines..so as soon as his dl stint is over, he’s back in the lineup.

Pedro is done done, why do people keep insisting, jerry manuekl just reported that it’s nothing serious…he was just being precautionary and pedro WILL make his next start.

and what makes everyone so confident the mets wont make any moves?? you make it sound like this is the roster they are sticking with the rest of the way through.

Are you saying that the Mets losing a pitcher that is averaging less than 5 innings per start, with a whip of 1.70 and an era of almost 7.00…

hurts them?

i do think theyll jump on burnett because they cant afford to wait too long. moyer better retire in the offseason. we cant afford that in the rotation next year. i hope myers can fix himself but i dunno.

carrasco and marson arent going anywhere, we do know thjat.

the phillies dont already have burnett because theyve been trying to get him to waive his opt out clause and stay here or something like that. so some difficulties there. happ will stay in the rotation. eaton should be released, knowing that we have to eat his contract. NOBODY wants that contract