Cry On, Mr Jones

It isn't the regular season yet and already Larry has tears in his eyes.

Omen of a season to come?


*****

At least we know our new closer isn't afraid of the Braves.

Billy Wagner earned the victory for the Mets last night in their 6-5 victory over the Braves.

Jose Lima, yet again, shows he's one of the best three inning pitchers of the Spring. Now if only he could make it into that pesky fourth inning he might be useful for something other than Pedro's comic relief.

The delicious battle continued for right field. Xavier Nady had two hits and Victor Diaz drove in the game-tying run in a two-run ninth inning with a sacrifice fly.

And of course, if you thought that news was a relief, just think about how the Kaz Man Hate Club are feeling this morning knowing that Matsui can't even get the bit right about staying healthy so he can be traded...



In the never ending soap opera that has been the battle for second base, Matsui will have an MRI exam on his knee today after he Matsui made an strange slide into second base. (Yes, it's true, the Kaz Man can't even slide properly...

The diagnosis was a sprain of the medial collateral ligament.

The injury, he commented, has "kind of put him back."

Put him back implies of course that he had been moving ahead which is about as far from the reality of the Kaz Man's spring as anyone might dare imagine.

Fittingly, he had a single in his lone at bat prior to the injury...yeah, just getting started on that 56 game hitting streak no doubt...