SEASON'S OVER.

I had a bad feeling about Pedro's start last night, but I didn't think he would die. SNY gave a dugout shot of Pedro awaiting the bottom of the 1st, and he looked wide-eyed and scared. It was strange. Pedro isn't supposed to be scared or nervous. He's the 4'-10" guy that will throw a fastball at your shoulder blades and then grab your coaches head and throw him to the ground. But Pedro took the mound and he couldn't command any of his pitches. The velocity was what we expected (85-88mph fastball), but he was all over the place. The Mets were down 2-0 in two batters and ten pitches. The nervous, dazed look never left his face until the pained look of injury replaced it.

What this means though, is that Mike Pelfrey is going to pitch a lot. Yikes. The guy still doesn't have any kind of breaking pitch. He was famed for a 12-6 curveball in college, but I guess he lost that pitch somewhere in his signing bonus. I don't even know what that means, but he needs to start missing some bats, getting some outs, and throwing some innings.

This also means John Maine is going to have to live up to my Cy Young prediction.

*Luis Castillo is funny. Sometimes the guy looks like he can barely move. He'll make routine plays in the field and then very slowly walk back to his position to recover. But then he'll get up to bat, lay down bunt basehits and steal bases.

*I don't miss LoDuca at all.

*Joe Smith has changed his delivery to a more upright throwing motion. His pitches, especially the slider, was moving a lot more.

*Heilman has added a cutter. The pitch worked well and Heilman seems to have quickly fell in love with it. In his second inning(the 9th), Heilman threw only two fastballs. He used mostly cutters, and a few changeups. He'll use the pitch inside on LHs and away to RHs.

*Keith Hernandez could barely finish getting the words, "you can get hurt upstairs with a changeup", out of his mouth before Wise did exactly that and ended the game.

*There is still nothing wrong with cheerleaders in baseball....