Brooms Flying<\/p>\n
I said the Mets would sweep the Braves, and now they have. <\/span>Anyone that doubts that the Philly series was the exception rather than the rule needs to look again. <\/span>The Mets are again four games up, on the way to being five up as I write this. <\/span>Assuming the bullpen hangs on, the Mets will again be going for five wins in a row. <\/span><\/p>\n Another thing that we need to stop talking about is the Now everything probably won\u2019t go as well as it has these last four days, but I think this is closer to the Mets than the Philly series was. <\/span>Delgado seems to have some power back, and if he can hold on to some of that and Alou can stay healthy the Mets have something that they actually lacked for much of the season, power. <\/span>Beltran was slumping a bit, and Wright\u2019s not a pure power guy, so the Mets were often resorting to small ball and stringing together hits. <\/span>There are only so many hits you can string together sometimes. <\/span>Many of those games in the middle of the summer that the Mets lost would\u2019ve been wins if the RBI singles had become three run home runs. <\/span><\/p>\n Pelfrey and Pedro looked good, David Wright\u2019s making his case for 30-30, as well as MVP, Wagner finally earned a save again, and the bullpen has settled down a little. <\/span><\/p>\n The magic number is at 23, soon to be 21, and before you know it we\u2019ll be pricing playoff tickets on Stubhub and hoping the Mets clinch at home on the 24th<\/sup> so that we can be in attendance. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brooms Flying I said the Mets would sweep the Braves, and now they have. Anyone that doubts that the Philly series was the exception rather than the rule needs to look again. The Mets are again four games up, on the way to being five up as I write this. Assuming the bullpen hangs on, … <\/p>\n