I’m afraid that Ollie may always be a “three good starts followed by a train wreck” type pitcher. I hope I’m wrong there, because when he’s on, he’s dominant.

Many of the Mets and management have had their say so early now. I am happy for the confidence and even the mixed opinions; not every man is built the same.

There is, however, a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and from this point on I am much more interested in Mets’ actions. This is where I totally side w/ P. Martinez, who is quoted in today’s NYT as basically saying, You’ve got to prove your confidence on the field.

I am behind the push Beltran tossed out there. I am also pleased to hear that Reyes is planning to tone down the act and simply play the game and forgo the handshakes and midair bumps after and during games. I am also excited to hear that Delgado has broken his swing apart and recreated it from the ground up. I see the biggest question marks this year as..

1) Delgado’s bat reawakening
2) Health and readiness of Duaner
3) Pedro’s abiility to win us 15 games….followed by

4) OP’s ability to play out a contract year.

I am most worried about OP frankly. As good as I think he is and can be…he has never been seen as “consistent”. This year with the pressure of the pending free agency and the money on the line for him…he will have to become consistent to make climb out of his current status which is electric at times and awful at times.

I want someone to come out and say we are going to treat every game against the Nats, Phillies and Marlins as game 7 of the WS. Win or die situations. Those teams were the ones that punished us down the stretch and caused the historic collapse. Time for payback. I want someone to say they are angry about it and plan to do something about it by treating those games as the most important ones on the schedule.

But even if they dont say it….I want them to do it. I want them to destroy the teams that made us pay last year. Exert the dominance we can bring on them and get our retribution!