Phillies, Braves, and who?!?!

As it is, it's understandable that when the Mets organization tries to sell me a multi-game pack of tickets, they are going to throw in Mets v. Nats, or Mets v. NL Central, because they want me to buy tickets to those shitty games, where I'd otherwise not in hell. You take the good, you take the bad...

But, when I'm reading this gem by Marty Noble on the Mets website:

No single sequence of games in a season defines a team. But playing the Phillies (six times), Braves (six) and Cubs (two) a total of 14 times in the first 24 games ought to tell the Mets where they stand comparatively to some of the other top teams in the NL.

Marty...the Cubs? Sure, stats people are projecting them to finish first, but the Mess destroyed the NL Central last year, posting 5-2 or 4-2 records against each of those teams. I am not worried when the NL Central comes calling. The Nats on the other hand...

The Mess lose the games they're not supposed to lose, and they win some games that they're never supposed to win. I would not be surprised if Mark Hendrickson and the Fish beat the Mess on Opening Day. Further along, I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate Fox Saturday Baseball and its worst announcers (yes! worse than Morgan and Miller!), and the Mets have a horrible record on Fox Saturday. So when the Mess are up against the Braves' five-hole on Saturday, I'm rooting for a not-so-embarrassing loss. That's the max I give the Mess on that Saturday. ESPN might grab that Sunday game if John Smoltz is healthy enough to tear the Mess a new one versus Johan.

Home opener against Philly? I don't know who is responsible for the MLB schedule anymore, it used to be a couple of boring ass statisticians who lived on Staten Island and never watched baseball, stating that their favorite team was the Senators, but there is no reason whatsoever to bring the Phillies to New York for Home Game 1. None. Even if the Mess destroy them, they will, guaranteed, waste all of their scoring in the first game, lose 2-1 or 1-0 each of the next two games, and then those jerks will be laughing and all over the airwaves saying how awesome they are, even though they aren't. It is still incomprehensible how the Phillies managed to get to a point where they could embarrass themselves on the national stage. Laughing, Rollins, is a defense mechanism.

Here's something that eats it for the Mess - Home ->@Yanks ->@Braves ->@Colorado ->Home. Granted, I believe the Rockies 2007 campaign was a fluke, and who knows how healthy the Braves will be at that point, and the Yanks don't have the Mess' number anymore, but @Yanks for any team in the MLB is the blackest day on the calendar. And to go the thousands of miles to make the round trip? First class flights aside, it's still a long trip.