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Mets have won 7 out of 10, 6 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 a 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 you know that everybody trade anybody and you obviously

not got to trade soda and lador but you know and and they're doing this with a couple guys out

position and a couple guys missing so it's a testament to the guys that are hanging in there. That's for sure, and making the most of their opportunities. Yeah, and both of these last victories could have gone the other way in heartbreaking fashion, and they didn't. And during the 12-game losing streak and some of their biggest down moments, they were on the wrong end of that. They were the ones that were giving up the three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth. They were the ones that were kicking the ball around. You know, they were the ones that were seeing a team breakout for a five or six run inning and the Mets do it for 10 runs last night in the 12th. So, yeah, I mean, both of these games could have gone the other way Sunday and Monday and didn't.

And now they're, you know, riding a three-game winning streak at six out of seven and feeling a lot better with their stud on the mound tonight to get to four games under five hundred. And that's the way you've got to look at a baseball team. It's the twist and turns of the season. It's up and it's down. And right now the Yankees are a little bit in a downturn, although winning last night helps.

And, you know,

they now, if they can win again today, and now all of a sudden you start and feel a little

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