West Coast Lovin'

The Mets up and down performances followed suit last night.  After shlaking 17 runs on the Cubbies Wednesday afternoon, the Mets got a nit and grit victory last night in La-La Land.

Chris Young, who's becoming more and more Mr. Dependable in the five-hole, picked up his second victory of the season while throwing seven awesome innings.  Sandy Alderson waited and waited this off-season, walking a very fine line, but in the end made the smart move and brought Young back on a minor league deal to help provide some depth.  With the lose of Mike Pelfrey and the suckiness of the other #5 starters, the depth is proven that it's needed.

The Mets remain 3.5 games behind the Nationals.  It's late enough in the season that the outside world recognize the Mets aren't going to go away.  They're a good enough team to fight to the end.  In the same breath, it seems as if Washington in the same mold, as are the 2012 Braves.  It looks like we may have a fun three team race over the last three months of the season.  We know the first three months have been fun.