The Mets face their final homestand against Colorado starting today. While the result is largely irrelevant in the baseball's big picture, the Mets have been showing some signs of life of late. Of particular pleasure was seeing them knock our division rivals out of wild card contention. As of this writing they sit at two games over .500 and (gasp!) not quite in the cellar of the NL East.

This should not be a source of pride of course. Ur uptown cousins, the New York Yankees have just gotten sole possession of the AL East lead after the Sox stumbled against Toronto last night. The Yankees-Bosox series that starts tomorrow night should be baseball at its best.

There's another thing not to forget about the Mets this weekend and if nothing else is a reason to tune in for a couple of innings. Mets blog Faith and Fear in Flushing reminds us that this weekend will likelly be the last time Mike Piazza suits up in a Mets uniform. A sad day indeed. No, not sad exactly. Maybe bittersweet is the word. Piazza is, after all, a certain Hall of Famer and I'm glad he was on our team for all these years. He is also the only remaining Met that ever played in a Subway Series.

- posted by Base10 @ 11:21 AM