What happened...

After continuing to roll with a feel good win on Friday night, the Mets imploded over the next two days. We all knew that Mike Pelfrey would eventually come back down to earth, but did it have to happen against the Phillies and Doc Halladay?? The Mets could not do anything against the Phillies ace... but then again, not many teams can. That loss was difficult, but at the same time, we'd stuck it to the Phillies so badly the night before I just sort of chalked it up to baseball karma. And then, Sunday came.

Have you ever seen Johan Santana completely lose it like he did last night? I mean, we're talking 2009 Mike Pelfrey meltdown status. Thankfully, I happened to be driving a friend home during Johan's meltdown, so I had Wayne Hagan and Howie Rose to talk me through it rather than Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. My favorite moment from last night's broadcast, courtesy of Jon Miller in about the fifth inning: "If Jamie Moyer hits a home run here, the Mets should just pack their bags." Thank you, Jon. Because Mets fans across the nation couldn't figure out that things were bad enough, you're actually encouraging a team that had already mailed it in to give up. And you read that correctly - the Mets completely mailed it in last night.

The game started off wonderfully... David Wright hit a home run in the first inning to give the Mets a 3-0 lead. Santana immediately gave back 2 of those runs in the form of homers. We picked up another 2 runs to make the score 5-2 - and then all hell broke loose. And the second that Johan left the game, the Mets had given up. That's a bigger problem for me than the fact that Johan got shelled. It's going to happen to everyone at some point - but again, did it really have to be against the Phillies? Against Jamie-freakin-Moyer? With ESPN doing the broadcast?! (ok, that last one is just me. I'm really bitter we had to deal with 3 ESPN Sunday games in a row PLUS 2 Fox Saturday games during that stretch).

The Mets will get a chance to start a new streak tonight in Cincinnati. They need to show us that they can rebound from brutal losses and get back on track. Having Ike Davis and Angel Pagan (who were inexplicably given the day off yesterday) back in the line up should help. Show us some fight, boys.... we really do want to believe, you just make it so damn hard sometimes.