If, If, If ...

The Mets, what are we going to do with the Mets. They may well get to the post season this year but I am not sure there will be any Met fans left to enjoy it, they are going to give us all heart attacks. Yes, they did reduce their magic number to four yesterday, but that was only thanks to Atlanta. (That sounds strange, saying Thanks to Atlanta, as a Met fan, in September).

Yesterday the steady hands of Tom Glavine were supposed to right the ship. Right from the start, Glavine was in trouble. By the time the Mets came up for the first time, they were trailing four to nothing. Glavine did not have it yesterday, but then why should he be different than any other Met pitcher. The bullpen once again did not have it and they let Washington pad the lead. Washington never trailed in the game.

The Mets did try to mount a late, ninth inning comeback, but it was too little too late, not by much mind you, but not enough as they lost by one run. If Glavine pitched a little better, if the bullpen did not give up two of those runs, if the Mets had scored a couple of additional runs in an earlier inning, the outcome would have been different and the magic number would be three. If, if, if… that is the problem. The Mets need to stop playing like they think they already clinched and can take it easy. The pitching has got to come through. The bullpen has got to get itself straightened out. I hope they do.

It would be nice to see the rookie, Phil Humber, making his major league debut tonight, come through in a big way. No matter what, he cannot do any worse.

Let’s Go Mets!