Pitching let down in Atlanta

Not a great game, huh? You could just feel that big hit by Johnson coming. I was expecting to hear that Feliciano was coming in there, but Willie went with Sosa. Still, I'm more disappointed in Maine than in Sosa. I was hoping he'd have one of his big games today.

Uggh - Hagin: "Beltran looked like Andruw Jones on that one" on a 3rd inning on fly by Kotsay. I know what he's saying, but I don't want to hear that stuff. He has to learn that we HATE the Braves. Hagin then followed that with a comment that "Delgado has not hit as we know he is capable of". I wish I knew that Delgado is still capable of hitting like that.

Hagin did make a good point in the 9th about how Reyes's at bat in the 7th was a pivotal moment in the game. That was when the Mets needed a big hit. It got away from them after Jose failed to move the runners up with 1st and 2nd and nobody out and the Mets down 2.

Hard to believe the umps overruled the call on Reyes's hit. Rose & Hagin were both sure that the original call was wrong.

Howie was talking about Nelson Figueroa - high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn; pitched in Mexico and Taiwan last year - when he let us know that after the September 11 attacks, Figueroa designed tee shirts to aid the families of victims. Wayne added that Figueroa would like to do something similar for those serving in the military. Sounds like Figueroa has a decent understanding of the world outside of baseball.