Mets Drive For Five Successful, But Lose Nightcap - Clock's Ticking for Unlikely Deal

The Mets won their fifth game in a row by taking the early game of a day-night doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies by a score of 7-0. Johan Santana pitched, which clearly explains the shutout, although he needed help from Bobby Parnell and Tim Redding to finish the last two innings for him. Santana gave up just 4 hits in 7 innings, striking out 8 to up his record to 12-8. He has more wins than anyone else on the team has homeruns.

The Mets scored 5 times in the second which was much more than Johan needed. But just when you thought this team had solved their offensive woes, along came the second game of the day when the team scored just twice en route to a 4-2 loss - ending their modest winning streak at five games.

For six innings, Jonathan Niese looked pretty good. Then it all came apart for him in the seventh. But that's okay, because the kid looks like he may have some promise. Realistically, the Mets are out of postseason aspirations, so I'd really like to see them give Niese a shot at really showing us what he can do. Let's keep him in the rotation for the rest of the year and see what happens, regardless of how good or bad he is. (unless he gets hurt, of course)

On another note, my fingers are still crossed that the Mets can pull an upset here with the Roy Halladay sweepstakes. It looks like talks with all the other teams are dead, and as of this writing, there's just 2 more hours left before the trade deadline for the Mets to vulture a deal. Of course this year's over, but how nice would a signed Roy Halladay look in a Met uniform next year with a Santana-Halladay 1-2 punch in the rotation? Let's look towards the future here and make a deal fast!

I don't care what minor leaguers the Mets have to give up. After all, as stated many times before, the Mets overvalue everyone in their farm system and haven't developed ANY quality major league players in over 20 years (except for Reyes and Wright, who are coincidentally both still on the team).

Omar, want to save your job? Get off your no-deal-making, sit-around-watching-other-GMs-working, sportswriter accusing, language-mangling, spend-money-on-wrong-players butt and make this deal happen in two hours...