make it stop...please?

All right, this isn't funny. I mean, it was for a little while, right? The mighty Mets, in first place and 4 games ahead of the hated Atlanta Braves, rolling right along, a second consecutive division title starting to creep up on the horizon...losing? Hahahaha.

It's true that this team has had it's flaws all year. First David Wright and Carlos Delgado weren't hitting. Then Carlos Delgado wasn't hitting. Then Carlos Beltran got hurt. Then Carlos Delgado wasn't hitting. Then everyone got hurt. Then Carlos Delgado still wasn't hitting...you get the idea, but the point is that none of this mattered when we were approaching 20 games over .500. We were finding ways to win. Some way or another, we were finding ways to still look like the National League juggernaut we were last year. Life was good.

9 losses in 10 games tends to dampen a team's spirits, though. Now we're struggling. Now everything that was a concern, everything we were able to brush off before, is making us lose. What? This isn't okay. Can we get a clutch hit please? Or maybe, just for fun, hold a lead after the 6th inning? This also isn't 2004.

The Mets are just trying to keep us on our toes. They're teaching us, as fans, a lesson in complacency. We learned to be complacent last year, when the Mets won the division by 15 games. This year, though, David Wright, Jose Reyes, and co. are just trying to switch it up, cut it a little closer, make it a little bit more fun. But it's not funny. Please stop guys - really.

Here's to hoping we can get out of California with at least one win before we come back to the House that George Steinbrenner's tearing down for a big series with the surging Yanks. Jorge Sosa will oppose Brad Penny in about an hour at Dodger Stadium, and I'll hold my breath...