Rocket Ramblings

OH, THANK GOD

I almost died twice this weekend.

Why? Ask Billy Wagner.

Sunday night's blown save was unreal. At the time I was sitting in a Luxery Box in Citibank Park (the stadium for the Long Island Ducks) thanks to a set of tickets won by my son Tyler. We had the sliding doors open and the Ducks game in front of us, with SNY on the tv inside next to us.

Needless to say, about 12 minutes after the Ducks took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 8th inning, the Mets blew their 2-0 lead in the 9th.

Thankfully, Joe Smith was great and Fernando Tatis came through again to propel them to a 12 inning win.

Then last night... what should have been a laugher turned into a heart attack waiting to happen.

When the score was 10-2, I made the mistake of joking to a friend "Only an eight run lead? probabally not enough."

Imagine my horror that I was almost right.

Couple of things about last night's game:

1 - Ryan Howard's hit was NOT a home run. The fam CLEARLY interfered with the ball and reached into the realm of play. The original call was correct... and why it was overturned made NO sense.

That's THREE blown calls on Home Runs that have gone against the Mets. Unreal.

2 - Betran's throw to 3rd was ill-advised, but I'm not too pissed he tried it. He has a great arm and it wasn't a horrible play (although his attidute after the game was a little annoying).

In the end, the Mets won 3 out of 4 (and almost swept the series losing a heart-breaker on Friday night) and are only 2 games back in the loss column.

My gut says they will go into the all-star break one game out of first.

In any case, good job winning those games guys... even though you almost killed me doing it.