For those of you who don't know who f-mart is, he is the Mets most heralded minor league prospect, and he just got the much anticipated call up to the Major Leagues with Ryan Church going on the DL. When the season started, I thought there was NO WAY he would ever get on the team this year.

With Delgado looking like he will miss at least 2 or 3 weeks, perhaps even several months, it throws a wrench into our plans and our lineup. We don't have a dependable backup firstbasemen defensively, and so Jerry Manuel/Omar Minaya have to put their thinking caps on to figure out how to shape the lineup.

The Mets have finally placed Ryan Church on the disabled list. It's about time. Ryan has been the most clutch hitter for the Mets in 2008. When he recently suffered his second concussion of the year I thought that the Mets would err on the side of caution and give Ryan the rest he needed.

Ryan did not get the rest he needed though and he was rushed back into the lineup just before the Mets made this road trip. I heard the Mets announcers say that long airplane flights (like ones from New York to California for instance) tend to exacerbate head injuries. The Mets announcers were right. Ryan played very little on the west coast trip because he wasn't feeling right.