SAY IT AIN'T SO PEDRO

I was pained to see Pedro Martinez wearing his new Phillies hat during his press conference. I feel such anger just seeing the Phillies color in every day life. I have been saying every day how we should sign Pedro. Pitchers always have a hard season the year after surgery. That was Pedro last year and now I expect him to have learned to pitch with his new body and will be very good for the Phillies. Pedro is a great competitor and his influence on our team has been sorely missed this year. He is such a great competitor, teacher, and jokester that every team kills to have. Now with a mere $1 millions dollars the Phillies pick up a great player at a position that were being killed at! Didn't we save enough money to sign him when we traded Castro. BUT at this point why we he even have thought of boarding the Mets' sinking ship. We may have been better off at this point with with him. We may have tried to make some other moves to keep us in it. Beltran is such a effing wuss! You have an effing bruise!!! Get in the game you baby. You played with a broken face for crying out loud!!!

JEFF FRANC"SURE"

I was upset to hear Church was traded. I think he got a bad rap by the Mets and more specifically Jerry Manuel. When Church was injured all the rumors swirled that he would not play very long with the Mets. Manuel had him play part time yet played FMart over him when Church was one of our best players. I kept hearing how Church fell out of favor with Manuel even before he missed 3rd base. Manuel and Church deny this, however. Church is a good player but is very injury prone. He has only played over 100 games once and he has been the league a while. Now at 30 he has shown himself to be a decent major league hitter, a very good fielder, and a guy who busts his ass and puts his body on the line for his team.

Franceour now comes in (I will have to learn how to spell his name) 5 years younger than Church, has in the past shown he can be a good hitter, and is a great fielder. He has been having problems the past couple of years at the plate but at 25 he is still growing as a major leaguer. It's important to note that with his struggles lately, he plays at least 150 games each year. With out rash of injuries it's important to have guys in the line-up every day. So this will probably turn out to be an excellent trade for the Mets. They get a younger, less injury prone, better fielding outfielder. Joe Negative approves of this deal even though it saddens me to see Church go.

LETS WIN 1 TODAY

We lost to Jamie Moyer!!! Come on! I thought that was our best chance of stealing a win. All they did was ground out. Wrong looked terrible yesterday. At the plate he couldn't hit anything. And that foul ball he dropped! I EFFING HATE TIM MCCARVER! He was totally destroying the Mets yesterday. He was calling them a minor league team, saying they were a joke. AND STOP ATTACKING FMART for his misplay the other day. The grass came out from him!! That wasn't his fault!

Today I would like to see Cora, Murphy, Wright, Church, Sheff, Reed, Castillo, Schneider. Castillo needs to be moved up! I have been saying it all year. He has a much higher average than Schneider. Castillo is a .290 career hitter compared to Schneider's .240 career average. Castillo is also batting 30 points higher this year. I know Schneider is getting RBI's but we are being taken advantage of much more by batting all are lefties back to back. Castillo would also get on base more to score runs, he would defend against the lefty pitcher, and if he steals they would walk Schneider and clear the pitcher. I also heard on the pre-game that Castillo has killed Blanton in the past. In fact he is batting .500 against him but he is batting 8th today!!! Smart decisions Manuel.

Is that Ryan Howard???

OK, so we lost to Rodrigo Lopez yesterday. We never do well against pitchers we have never seen before even when we have a full line-up. We are now 2 games out of first. If you expect the Mets will be in 1st place after this series then you are on drugs! There really is a very slim chance we will beat the Phillies 2 out of 3. We just need to hang around long enough til we get our guys back and then take over. I heard Beltran will be out until the All-Star game. That stinks but maybe Reyes will be back then too. I actually think it would be better for the Mets to not tie the Phillies this weekend. It will put the fight in them more to beat everyone else. The Mets are so bad right now with all these injuries that we are lucky to beat anyone.

Jamie Moyer is pitching today. I would love to see Manuel put out an all righty line-up today because right handed batters are hitting over .300 against him. This should be the line-up. Castillo, Cora, Wright, Sheff RF, Tatis 1B, Church CF, Evans LF, Santos. The other day Manuel had Tatis in right and Evans at 1B. Then late in the game for defense he put Tatis at 1B and Evans in LF??? Hernandez then stated Evans is a better OF than 1B. Which Gary replied then why didn't Manuel do that for the entire game? Another Manuel blunder.