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Back With A Bang

Boo-yah! Man, this is fun. Despite Matt Ginter dropping another bomb yesterday afternoon at Shea, the Mets offensive onslaught continued, besting the bad guys from the Bronx 10-9. Richard Hidalgo continues to make Jim Duquette look brilliant, blasting his sixth homerun as a Met (he hit only four all year with Houston). Mike Stanton continues to be worthless coming out of the pen. John Franco hasn't been much better, and I can only hope one of these guys hits the road when Karim Garcia and/or Scott Strickland are ready to go.

Since hitting coach Denny Walling was canned on June 15th (replaced by Don Baylor), the Mets are slugging .456 as a team; their season SLG is .413. In those 16 games, they have swatted 25 homeruns and 26 doubles. Their .260 average over that span is only nine points higher than their season mark of .251, but they've been doing much more damage with those hits. They still can't take a walk, drawing only 45 free passes in those games (Barry Bonds has 27 walks by himself during that span).

The Mets are now in second place in the NL East, percentage points ahead of the World Champion Marlins and only two games back of the Phillies. Things have looked much, much worse for this team in recent years, and I'm beside myself with glee simply to be on the long end of games like yesterday's. Happy Independence Day Mets fans!