The Mets

I don't know why we always seem to run into the Mets late in the season when we're playing well, but it probably has something to do with me having a short memory. I just remember that last year the Mets came into PNC needed one win in three games to close out the NL East and we refused to give it to them and broke the brooms out and tortured the crap out of Mets' fans, much to everyone's amusement. I guess this year, we're not really playing them that late in the season (I mean, it's only mid-August) and it's hard to say we're playing well because the Giants just looked really, really awful in the five games we played against them.

Anyways, tonight Snell will take the mound against El Duque. Hernandez is about 110 years old now (approximately), but he's having a really good year for a guy his age with an 85 mph fastball. Somehow the Mets end up with El Duque and we get freakin' Masumi Kuwata. Anyways, he pitched against us three times last year and his slow goofy crap absolutely baffled the crap out of us (he struck out nine, seven, and seven in his three seven inning starts). Snell has started to get things turned around since his ugly return from the all-star break, but he's definitely not all the way back yet. Maybe he can take a page out of Gorzo's book and get the ship righted, but I suppose the Mets, a team in the heat of a pennant race, aren't the team I'd want to be doing that against.