The mets have a chance to win tonight!

By Nicholas Stix

When I turned on the game just after 8, it was 12-0 mets, with two outs in the bottom of the second, at corporate field in flushing (home game). I thought to myself, "The mets have a chance to win."

Even in 2006, I used to think the same way, and that season, they ended up with the best regular season record in the senior circuit (97-65). Of course, that year, Aaron Heilman gave up a home run to some mope on St. Louis in game six of the semifinals.

In spite of all their fire power that year, with David Wright, Jose Reyes, and the Carloses (Beltran and Delgado), the mets pitching staff had trouble holding leads.

Tonight was the big league debut of phenom Jonah Tong, a canadian-asian, whom mets skipper Carlos Mendoza gave five innings. His line score wasn't so hot--four runs in five innings, but three of those runs were unearned. Last night, a series of errors cost us the game against the marlins, who are a losing team this year, and sent us five games behind the phillies in the nl east, with only 30 left to play. No matter. Any team has a chance at beating and even sweeping us, and the marlins have a history of ruining our seasons (on the day of the year in 2007 AND 2008), ditto for the nats.

and if we do hold on for the win, tomorrow we might score only one run and lose. That's the way mediocre teams play.

It's the top of the eighth, and we're (or is that they're?) ahead, 13-4. But as Yogi famously said...