The new Amazin' Mets

Wow, it's finally good to be a New York Mets fan again. (Haven't wavered since I was 10.) Sure, there was the brief flirt with glory when they went to the 2000 World Series. But this Mets team -- 6-1 after Pedro's win tonight -- looks formidable. As the Washington Nationals play-by-play announcer said tonight, "They look like they're doing everything right right now. They're hitting better than anybody else [.312 BA], they're pitching better than anybody else [leading the league at 2.95 ERA], they're playing outstanding defense, plus they have that outstanding speed element. I just don't see a chink in their armor."

I haven't seen a Mets team this good since 20 years ago, when the '86 team went 108-54 and won the division by 21½ games (before winning the Bucky Dent World Series by a stroke of fate). They won't win quite that many games this year, but they could come close.