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Good morning Mets fans,

Just one more week in the season that won’t end.

While risking losing half my audience, I tip my hat to the Phillies. Barring a Randolphian collapse this will be their 4th straight division title (and they’ve clinched a wild card anyway).

Remember back in the summer when it looked like the Braves were leaving them in the dust?

The Phils play you all 162. They are in a new ballpark that is sold out every night. Their management went out and got them another pitcher.

They are scrappy and dirty (messy) and remind me of a dirty scrappy team from my youth.

Isn’t that what we’ve been looking for in Queens? Do you think the 86ers would have quietly let Ollie cash checks all year?

Another good job Phillies. We’ll get you next year!

(I’m not sure I believe that last sentence.)

..he really got wound up in the fifth inning, when Jose Reyes and Ryan Howard were laughing about something at first base. His main point was that if the Mets were soooo upset about the Utley play, what the heck are Reyes and Howard doing sharing a laugh? Of course, Howard had the last laugh when Reyes got picked off.

via Howie Rose more passionate than the Mets.

Any time that Nick Evans and Joaquin Arias are starting on the 26th of September there had better be a small x next to NEW YORK in the standings.

Sunday, September 26 @ Philadelphia

Jose Reyes – SS

Nick Evans – LF

Carlos Beltran – CF

David Wright – 3B

Angel Pagan – RF

Ike Davis – 1B

Joaquin Arias – 2B

Henry Blanco – C

Pat Misch – LHP

(ducks)

From what I read, the Mets have a club option on Jerry for 2011.   Stay with me….

Lets go back in time to April 2010 where I have been named manager of the Mets.   Here’s my lineup given the cards I have been dealt…

Jacobs, Castillo, Cora, Wright, Bay, Pagan, Frenchy, pick a catcher, Santana/Pelfrey/Niese/Perez/Maine

A few weeks later Omar hears you and gives you Ike, and Reyes comes back.  So…

Ike, Castillo, Reyes, Wright, Bay, Pagan, Frency, catcher, pitcher of the day.   Isn’t that who you would have started?

So you tell Omar you need a pitcher and Dickey shows up.   You still start the same 8.

You are two games out at the All Star break and Beltran is coming back.   You might actually like your chances, no?

Now lets go to 2011.   The 2011 Mets have been on the field for a month and they aren’t very good.

Maybe you just let Jerry ride out the lost year rather than saddle Wally with 75 and 85.

Maybe you let some contracts run out, eat the year, and start the new beginning in 2012.

Tough pill to swallow for fans but maybe it’s worth considering.

Of all the problems, I don’t think it was Jerry’s fault.