Give It Up

I'm happy to give credit where it's due, and blanking the Philthies in 3 straight games is a ridiculous feat. Talk about a huge F U.

The Maine Event

Well, I called this a few months ago, but I deserve about as much credit for that as I would for calling that the sun will rise tomorrow. Maine has rotator cuff tendinitis and will miss time. Shocker.

Rex Isn't Just Fat--He's Stupid, Too...

Slick move, Ryan--all you do is harp on how awesome Revis is (not arguing this point--dude is top-tier) and that he's the greatest defensive player in the game and that he's the key to everything you do on defense and without him your defense would be nothing.

You didn't think his agent might possibly be listening to this?

So now, Revis wants a monster renegotiation of his deal that will cost the Jets an arm and a leg to keep him happy and playing.

Nice one--guess they'll have to cut back your Krispy Kreme budget to get the extra $$$'s...although if he could cut them out the Jets could build their own stadium with the savings and not have to live in the shoadow of the G-men.

Boom Goes the Sucka-Mets

And there it is. With their 5th loss in a row, they have managed to drop back into last place, confirming what we all (except for Wilpon + Minaya + Manuel) knew to be true. For every Mets winning streak, they will have an equally ugly losing streak and ultimately go nowhere.

Wait, I know. If only we get Beltran back, then I'm sure that's the only missing piece that will suddenly make this team a WS contender. I can't wait.

Causation or Correlation?

The WSJ has an interesting article up today highlighting some of the statistical differences between Mets Fans and Yankee Fans (males only). While they found no statistically significant differences in terms of income, they did make a couple of startling discoveries:

Mets fans were more than twice as likely to be gun owners.

Mets fans were much more likely than Yankess fans to drink beer, and twice as many Yankee fans abstain from alcohol altogther.

And that was before they screened out the statistical outliers (Caribou Express).

They are who we thought they were, part 2

Indeed, just like last year and the year before that and the year before that, the Mets will rip off a bunch of wins in a row, and then puke it all right back.

Mets-phils

Big inning for santana here, bottom of the 4th. We just tacked on another 2 runs in top 4th, and santana now faces the heart of philthies order. Hopefully he's treating this like a playoff game and we'll see what he can do. I was certainly disappointed with his effort in the bottom of the 1st after we jumped out to a quick lead.

Not a good start, utley tagged a double into the corner... Let's see if he can set down the big man... indeed, got him to fly out to deep left. Very close to a 2-run jobbie though.

Interlude

A little jetties action. Looks like McKnight has a bit of legwork to match Leon Washington's skills, to say the least:

While fellow highly-touted draft pick Joe McKnight has stumbled mightily out of the gate, vomiting during practice for the second day in a row while dropping four more passes...

Two Questions for D.C.:

1) Where are you?

2) Is there still room on the wagon?