Mets have won seven out of ten, six out of seven, still five games under 500,

ten and a half out of first and six and a half out of a wild card.

But you've got to start somewhere.

And they have been playing better baseball.

And if you get back to 500, then you can be taken seriously.

And with them now actually playing decent baseball all the way around and scoring some runs,

it is possible that they get there quicker than maybe we expected that they did.

The Philadelphia Phillies certainly did it after firing Rob Thompson and hiring Don Mattingly as the manager.

They're now two games over 500 on a five game winning streak.

But they've still got a negative run differential as well.

You've got the Braves at plus 86 and run differential, and every other team in the division is negative run differential.

Well, I mean, had the Braves dealt with any injuries whatsoever? Like last year, they dealt with a lot

of injuries. It's one of the reasons why they didn't make it. But when you think about

where we are in the season, in the middle of May, I mean, come on. I mean, we still have a long way to go. And, you know, I would say that beating the Yankees two out of three over the weekend, you know, that kind of puts a little bit more confidence back in your roster. And all of a sudden, guys start playing well, they start feeling like a little bit more comfortable. Look, guys' bats are starting to wake up. You know, what happens to every baseball team? Eventually, the Braves will go through their injury downturn and they'll have, you know, a bad 10-game run there somewhere along the line and everybody will get a little bit closer and you know you keep

your eye on the wild card it's one of the reasons why major league baseball added the wild card so

teams aren't out of it so early in the season and that they can still remain in playoff

contention and that will be interesting when we get to the trade deadline because you know two weeks

ago everybody's on the trade deadline except for benjamin mclean you know that everybody you trade anybody and you know, two weeks ago, everybody's on the trade deadline except for Benjamin McLean.

You know, that everybody, trade anybody.

And you obviously not got to trade Soto and Lador, but, you know, and they're doing this with a couple guys out of position and a couple guys missing.

So it's a testament to the guys that are hanging in there.

That's for sure.

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