It's Groundhog Day at Citi Field - Again

If you want to know what happened at the Mets game last night, just read our take on the previous game, and replace the final score with 6-3. The Mets take an early lead, blow it, can't hit with runners in scoring position, then lose in extra innings on a homerun with the loss going to Bobby Parnell. Exactly how it happened the game before. Not a good result for Met fans

OK... one out of three against Philadelphia isn't horrendous, but it's not going to get the team where they want to be, especially playing at home. This was a big game to win - and they still couldn't do it despite three hits apiece for Castillo and Wright, plus a 3-rbi night from Beltran, who drove in Castillo all three times. They also wasted a good outing by Tim Redding, who might be putting something nice together as a number 5 starter.

Redding's emergence is even more important now that the Mets put John Maine on the 15-day disabled list with "shoulder weakness" after the game. (Isn't shoulder weakness code for "there must be something wrong with this guy but we don't know what it is"?)

So after a huge loss like this, what does the Mets manager do? On the eve of the first game of this year's subway series, Jerry Manuel goes on record saying publically that the Yankees are the "dominant team" in New York. Even if it's true, I still don't want to hear that from the manager after the Mets just became the meat in a Philly cheesesteak! Just shut up Jerry... please, just shut up.

Next time you're at a restaurant with your wife or girlfriend, tell her "honey, you're okay... but the waitress is so much prettier". See if that goes over well. Guess what, Jerry? You're not the "dominant manager" in town either...