Ollie-Right!! That's More Like It!!

Oliver Perez OWNS the braves. He moved to 3-0 this year against them, including 2 wins at Turner Field. Overall he's sitting at 6-3, tied for the NL lead in wins. While it wasn't as dominant as some of his earlier performances, his bottom line looked good. 7 innings of shut out ball, 4 hits, 2 walks, and 2 hit batters. A little wild at times, but nothing of the 7 walk-wild from earlier this year. David Wright continues to rake the ball, hitting his 4th homer in 4 games. Was nice to see Joe Smith take the mound for the 8th instead of Hellman, er, Heilman. Country Time pitched the 9th for his 11th save on the year. Mets move back to 2.5 games in front and really need a win tomorrow and get a little breathing room.

Observations/Thoughts:

Is there a call that Booby Cox doesn't argue about? No pitch is ever a strike on his batters, and his pitchers throw no pitches out of the strike zone. I'm all for working the umps, but he's acting like a 16 year old rich girl who got the keys to her new BMW taken away. i guess if I only had 1 World Series ring out of 14 playoff appearances in a row, I'd be cranky too.

In an earlier post, I bitch-slapped Sir Joe Morgan and his Yankee fetish. Being the fair guy I am, I need to bring light to an extremely valid point he did make in Sunday's broadcast. While watching Delgado get pitched inside time after time, he mentioned how his swing looked to him, like Delgado's wrist is still bothering him after off-season surgery. If this is truly what is causing him to slump, should Met brass bite the bullet and put him on the 15-Day Edmonds? (15-Day Rolen would have worked too.) I'm not all that giddy about watching Julio Franco and his arthritic body man 1st base for 15 days, but if it gets us a happier, healthier Delgado, I can make do for 2 weeks of whiffing on 68 MPH changeups. It won't be much different production-wise than what we are getting right now.

Rubber game tomorrow. Glavine and smoltz face off for the 3rd time allready this year.

One last thing. I hate to admit it, but I find this hilarious.