Perfect

How much better could the 2008 season have started. "He's as good as advertised" Wright said. "A pleasure to watch" Willie added, " A joy to catch" Schneider was quoted as saying. All of course refereing to the Amazin Johan Santana who's changeup was filthy in a 7-2 drubbing of the lowly Marlins. Sure you can make the argument that Johan is making 2 million dollars more this year then entire Marlin's roster combined, but still. He went 7, gave up 2 runs on 3 hits, and had 8 strikeouts to just one walk. Wow, he looked great in that uniform yesterday, starting the day and ending it with a nasty K on Ramirez and Traner respectivelly.

The Mets bats came alive at least in one inning, where they sent 10 to the plate in the fourth, scoring 6 runs, the highest single inning output in Mets opening day history. Hope you like that run support Johan, you'll be getting it all year. Beltran and Wright both had two doubles, along with Reyes two hits, to fuel the mets offense. Even the newcomers contributed with RBI's from Pagan and Church. Scheneider did what he does best making an outstanding slide to stop an errant castillo ball from heading out of play. Overall, it was a great day to wear the orange and blue. 1 down, 161 more.

-Both Reyes and Wright were caught stealing when both were safe on replay. Reyes wasnt even close, and Wright made an outstanding slide but was still called out.
-Both the Phillies and the Braves Bullpen were terrible yesterday while the Mets held strong. Willie's gut call to go with Sosa over Heilman worked out wonderfully. When asked after the game,he responded "It wasnt a tight situation".Good Call Willie.
- Baseball Tonight refered to Lastings Milledge(who homered and scored three runs yesterday, as former great met. When did that happen? Also on BBTN, when they did that OH my God highlight of Texeira, he's tapping Ruben Gotay on the shoulder.