Let's go get 'em and win the first ever regular season game at Citi Field. Heck, let's sweep the series.

Both the Marlins and Reds are worse than we are, but both might suprise people this year and have the potential to be really good. Not so for the Padres. this is the first opponet we've faced who is truly terrible, and it's time we open Citi with a bang and distance ourselves from the rest of the pack by sweeping the series. Anything less is a dissapointment.

I smell Sweep!!

I predict the mets will win by 5 runs tonight. David Wright will find his swing tonight and have a big game. The Padres are a bad team they should be easy meat for the first home seires at citi field.

Luckily here in the Uk we have ESPN America so i will be watching the mets game tonight with a nice cold beer as they get there season started properly after a not too bad road trip.

Jesus whats going on. 4-0 in the middle of the 2nd inning. I think that fall on the mound damaged Pelfs confidence in that inning.

David Wright hits the Mets first regular season homer at Citi Field and ties the game in the process. Here's to many more Met homers at Citi. We can pick up Pelfrey and win this one.

That homer by Wright was the best single swing i can remember in a long time. Everything seemed to be going wrong tonight. A cat ran out on the feild, pelfrey tripped and fell on the mound, the first batter for the Padres hit a homer, and we were down 5-1 with 2 outs in the 5th inning. A walk and a single later, it was 5-2 with 2 on but still with 2 outs. David Wright has gotten a bad rap for his struggles in the clutch (he hit about .240 with RISP last year but about .290 overall) and worked the count full. With the crowd on its feet and enthused for the first time that game, I said to myself just before the pitch came in "Come on Wright, be clutch, you got this, be a star". It sounds corny, but I swear I did. Then he yanked a knee level slider into the Left feild stands. First Mets homer at Citi, the "choker" monkey off of Wrights back for a long while, our first glimpse of the beautiful new homerun apple, and a tie ballgame, all in one swing. beautiful. Lets not waste it Mets, you've been given a mulligan on our bad start, lets come from behind and win this one!

Oh please that's a bad call! I have always disliked David Eckstien but I especially dislike him now. the 3-base error by Church was bad enough, but our pen appeared to be bailing us out and there were 2 strikes and 2 outs with just the runner on third when Feliciano supposedly raised his head a millimeter after he set. The ump wasn't gonna call it until David Eckstien stepped out of the box and started jumping and pointing and whining like a toddler and the ump changed his mind and called a balk. The runner from thrid scored and they took the lead. how frustrating! the balk has always been one of the stupidest rules in baseball in my opinion and it just cost us the lead, possibly the game, on a questionable call with questionable input from eckstein and a runner on third. feliciano's "motion after the set" had absolutely no impact on his next pitch, or the runner, or the batter, so why should it cost us a run over such a technicality? i know rules are rules but it's still frustrating

If Putz can keep it 6-5 there's a good chance the mets could come back against a bad padres bullpen...maybe setting up a walk off?

For the second straight game the Mets were doomed by a poor play in the corner outfield. On Sunday the culprit was Daniel Murphy and yesterday Ryan Church was the offender. Between that and Feliciano's balk that forced in a run the Mets were done in. The whole team needs to play better though. Pelfrey turned out his second straight poor performance. The last 6 outs were way too easy for former Mets Duaner Sanchez and Heath Bell. Time for an early season gut check.

It seems like today's lineup is a formula for disaster with Perez on the mound, who's a fly ball pitcher, and two below average corner outfielders. But that being said I believe Ollie Perez will have one of those elusive starts where he goes 7 gives up like 2 hits and strikes out 10. The Mets could really use a win right now they've been playing mediocre baseball since the start and I know it's only April but it's time to step it up.

Remember when we were 2-0 and everything was looking up? 5 frustrating games later it seems like everything is going wrong again. I have that same feeling i had for much of last season about losing all these games that we really should have won. each of our 4 losses has been by 2 runs or less, and 3 have been by just 1 run. We've wasted a stellar Johan start, underperformed with RISP, and made critical errors in the OF, all in the last 5 games. Seems a lot like last year only with a better bullpen but worse defense. That said, it was the first night at Citi and I think all our Ofers will get used to the way teh park plays and the wind blows in there a little better and improve accordingly as the season goes on, and eventually understanding the lay of the land out there will really come to our advantage. Citi Feild has very deep power alleys with lots of quircks along the high wall, meaning homers (especially to Left Feild) will decrease and the OFers will get a lot more action; hopefulyy by midseason we will have an advantage over teh other teams OF because we will be used to it.

Interesting game tonght, which is again aired on ESPN I'm happy to say. Sheffield will make his first start as a met in RF against the lefty Corriea, and Oliver Perez will look to bounce back from his nightmare first start against a weak Padres lineup. Hopefully we can still win the first series at Citi and turn out mini-slump around.

Yeah hopefully Sheffield bat will be good tonight as im not to sure how well his defense will be. Thats the worry Murphy and Sheffield defensively tonight could cost the mets. Wright is starting to look good at the plate. We need Reyes to start getting in the groove and get on base.

Terrible performance for Sheff so far. Four left on base and it's the fifth inning. Ollie is looking better tonight. And we really need Jose Reyes to start heating up.

Yeah Sheffield isn't doing himself any favors especially if you think how well Church has been hitting so far and how many rbi's he might have got in those situations Sheffield has been in so far tonight.

Yes, the Mets got their first win at Citi Field tonight. Much quicker than their first win at Shea as a matter of fact. Aside from Oliver Perez bouncing back I attribute this win to fundamentals. The Mets scored four runs without a hit out of the infield in the bottom of the eighth inning. A couple of walks, a bunt single, wild pitch, sacrifice fly and then two runs on a wild pitch (including Reyes scoring from first) with David Wright up. We saw patience at the plate, putting the ball in play, sacrifices at the plate and speed on the bases. Good stuff. Carlos Delgado's bomb of a homer in the 8th was icing on the cake.

I am very pleased with the mets play tonight. We hit well with RISP, Oliver Perez was lights out, our bats seemed to get in the groove and the bullpen held down the fort. One particularly exciting and impressive play was when Jose reyes scored on a past ball...FROM FIRST BASE! We all know he is the fastest player in the MLB, but nobody thought that was even possible. I guess we were wrong. To be fair the throw to the plate was kicked away by castillo as he slid in so the Padres defenders had to throw to home twice, but still that is amazing speed and awareness on the basepaths by Reyes. Nobody else in the game could have pulled that off but him. Lets win the series tommorow with Maine on the mound.

What an awful job done by the home plate umpire calling that last at bat of the game. I know you can't argue balls and strikes but it was so blatantly obvious that he couldn't make up his mind where the damn strikezone was. Granted Delgado got away with some pitches because of the umpire's pure incomptetance, but the first and second pitches of the at bat were called strikes when they were CLEARLY balls. The first pitch scraped the freakin plate!! And the second was identical to the third which he called a ball. Right there it should have been 3-0 and would've changed the complexion of the at bat and probably would've also changed the outcome. But the reason the Mets lost was because of their starting pitching....once again. Everytime the Mets have lost it has been because of poor starting pitching. The bullpen is fixed, now lets go out and get Roy Halladay.

Losing a 1 run game to an inferior team, especially when all 6 of their runs were scored with 2 outs, and when a run was stolen from us on a fan intereference that prevented Reyes friom scoring, is very frustrating, but I still think it is too early to call out our SP. Johan will always be dominant, it's what he does, we can be a sure about him as with anybody that he will produce excellently. Pelfrey has struggled a tad early on but still he is a young star and has only had 2 starts, he will find the groove eventually and be a legitiamte #2 starter in my opinion. He has teh stuff, anyways, and he was great last year. Livan has done just fine so far and even though Maine and Olly have had their bad moments, both have looked dominant for some innings this year. I think come midseason they will all settle down and our rotation will be a strength, not a weakness.

Glad to see those guys go. The Mets were 2-5 against them last year. Still, it's another tough loss against a team we should have beat. The Mets had chances to score more runs but the fault for this one has to go to John Maine who pitched terrible. Kudos to the bullpen for keeping the Mets in the game.

That last at-bat with Delgado vs. Heath Bell really hurt. I felt like Delgado was working Bell nicely and would see a pitch to hit. The called 3rd strike looked like a ball to me but it was close. And in those situations you need to protect the plate. No complaints about Delgado though. He's been hitting very well so far and gave tne Mets a shot with his first inning homer.

Right now I think that the Mets need to get Jose Reyes on track. We've got enough of an offense to be able to overcome poor starts. But it's hard to do when Reyes is hitting .243 with only two stolen bases. When Jose starts hitting I think the team will be hard to beat. I've also been thinking that Manuel should consider moving Ryan Church (hitting .419 right now) or even Luis Castillo up to the second position in the lineup.

The biggest concern for me right now is David Wright. At the moment he is reminding me of Ryan Howard at the start of last season when all he looks like he wants to do is hit a home run at every at bat and gets too many strike outs. He has been struck out twice in at least 5 games so far this season. He should do what he does best and relax and trust his swing to get him on base and drive in runs.

Despite your above complaints, everyone on our starting roster is hitting over .300 except for Castro, reyes, and murphy. and murpy is hitting .294, so it's hard to complain about that. sure reyes is hitting just .250 but at such a young stage of the season you can't really say he is "struggling". With one big game he could be hitting .350, so fluxy are teh averages right now. As a whole I think the bats are donig fine, our biggest problem has been Starting pitching. Castro, though he homered last night, has looked really behind the pitches and i think he needs to get his timing back, especially with Schnieder going on the DL. Delgado is real hot right now, if he can keep producing at a high level this whole season the mets will be in very good shape.