Break up the Mets: Pesky baseball team over .500

METS 14
TIGERS 3

Who would have thunk it?

Facing two of the American Leagues top two teams in a row, and the New York Mets have not wilted under the pressure. Instead the Mets have delievered the TKO to both the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers over the past few days.

First it was a 14-5 victory in Texas on Saturday, followed up by a solid 8-3 victory on Sunday. Then last night the Mets exploded for 14 runs on 18 hits against the Tigers to get over .500 for the first time since game five of the regular season.

The game also marked the first time the Mets hit a grand slam in a game since 2009!

With New York up 2-0 in the fourth inning, Josh Thole went yard with a solo shot, his first of the year, to give the Mets a 3-0 lead. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded, Jason Bay, that's right JASON BAY, hit a grand slam homer to left to make it 9-0 Metropolitans.

Wow are these guys?

Fast forward to the fifth, bases loaded for Carlos Beltran, and kiss it good-bye another grand slam to left -- and Comerica Park is supposed to be an even harder place to hit homeruns than Citi Field. Mets grab a 13-0 lead.

R.A. Dickey, who has struggled this year, got is fourth win of the year, pitching seven strong innings, scattering 10 hits and allowing three runs.

The Mets are now 40-39, and phase the abysmal Phil Coke tonight, while, Chris Capuano, arguably the second best pitcher for the Mets this year, tries to get to .500 on the season.

The Mets are kicking AL tail-who would have guessed it. Jose Reyes has been amazing. Another four hit day for the shortstop brings his average up to .349. With the Mets now over .500, and just four games out of the Wild Card, it will be hard for the Wilpons to trade Reyes at the deadline, let alone anyone with a big name and contract.

The Mets players are making it very hard on the front office, it's like something out of the movie Major League. There is a scene in that film when the players in the Indians clubhouse get word that they will all be traded no matter how the season ends, because the owner wants to move the team to Florida. The team decides to unite in a cause against ownership and win the whole thing, inspite of her.

Here we go again -- I wonder if there is a cardboard cut out of Fred and Jeff Wilpon in the Mets clubhouse -- then again I don't want to know.