Bleeding stopped

Despite walking five guys in six innings, Heilman kept the game close and lowered his ERA to a respectable 4.65. A three run ninth inning, capped by a 2-run double by Beltran, salvaged the last game of the series at RFK. The Mets enter this week's series with the Phillies (Pedro vs. Lieber tonight on ESPN) at 12-13 and looking thoroughly five-hundredish, but C-Biscuit has yet to truly unleash the fury, either with the bat or on the basepaths.

David Wright may not be the messiah, but he'll do. April is over, and it's time to stop the joke that is these lineup cards with a 7 next to his name. Especially now that our defensive specialist 1B (speaking of jokes...) has started showing his true offensive colors, 6th is the absolute lowest he should be hitting. Why must Willie Randolph play these silly little games with this marvel of a specimen of a phenom of a 22 year-old? Willie should start asking himself WWSRH? Where would Scott Rolen hit? Or at least Edgardo Alfonzo in his prime.

Meanwhile, Jose Reyes has now had his 109th at-bat without a walk. I don't think I was the only Met fan berating the televised image of Joe Morgan last night when he seized on Reyes's bunt single as irrefutable proof that he's doing a great job at the plate. No one has suggested that he never gets on base; only that he doesn't do it with anywhere near the usual frequency of a major league hitter. Even ESPN's production crew seemed to be making fun of our grossly underqualified leadoff man, doing a "K-Zone" replay of his vicious cut at a pitch in the dirt (with its indicator showing exactly where the ball hit the ground).

Notes

Juan Rincon just became the fifth, and by far the best major leaguer to test positive for performance enhancing drugs. Test Johan next.

Brian Roberts. That's it. Just Brian Roberts. Ever see that movie "Phenomenon" with John Travolta? Where some alien beam puts a benign tumor in his head that makes him a supergenius? I'm thinking something similar has happened here.