What a day for baseball and what a pitching match-up.  Johan vs. Pettite.  Today I went to the game with my other brother Dave.  We ended up driving to the game and got there about 1 1/2 hours early.  Our plan was to tailgate and have a catch.  Today's game definitely had a different vibe than last night's game, much more fan friendly.  Dave and I had a great time prior to the game, but I felt bad.  Dave has a son that is 4 years old and he is a huge Mets and David Wright fan.  When his son found out that he was going to the game, he started crying and wanted to know why he couldn't go too.  Finally when Dave was leaving the house his son said "Daddy, catch a ball for me".   Well, Dave had to the chance to bring home a souvenir for his son during the 6th inning t-shirt launch, but he dropped it.  Terrible, terrible hands.

When Dave and I went to Mets games as kids, my father would always as the ticket collector what the expected crowd was for that game.  That tradition has always stuck with Dave and myself and we laughed when we realized that we both ask as the same question today when we enter the stadium.  We were told that today they were expected 56,000 and change.  Nice crowd for a Saturday game.

After two rain delays and a very sloppy played game (Johan's balk and Reyes getting picked off), the Mets could only pull 2 runs.

Notes from the game:
- I am all for booing a visiting teams player, but how can you boo Jeter.  As much as I don't like the Yankees, I can't bring myself to boo this guy.  I love watching him warm up prior to a game, he starts with a short catch down the foul line and keeps backing up all the way down the line tossing.  It is quite impressive to see him long toss from LF from 275' out too a crowded home plate area. 
- Another flyover today, love the flyover.  Solid National Anthem by Glenn Close.
- Between innings the Mets have some pretty lame entertainment.  Maine Street USA?  Dancing on the dugout?  The ones that always are a favorite of mine are the Kiss Cam and the t-shirt launch, which as I noted above Dave dropped a t-shirt today.  At the end of the first they play the classic Meet the Mets song, fantastic.  This should be kept in the new stadium.
- I have made comments about buying and wearing baseball jerseys to Mets game.  I saw a very unique one today.  Sitting in the section below us was a couple, the women on the left was wearing a David Wright jersey, to her right was her boyfriend/husband wearing a Mets jersey that said Wrong on the back with the number 5 backwards.  I have to give them credit for that.
- Johnny Damon not only has a wet noodle for an arm, he throws like a girl.  The ball boy that warms him up between innings actually threw better than him.  In the 8th however, Damon made a sick play in the gap on a ball hit by Wright.  Saved the game for the Yankees, but his throw back to the second base bag got there on three bounces.
- Reyes, what are you doing getting picked off!  Are you kidding me.  Your hottest hitter is up and there are two outs.  What are you trying to prove.  Just terrible.  Equally as bad was Beltran's Golden Sombrero, 0-4 4 k's. 
- After the second rain delay when we went back to our seats there was a good four inches of water in the section.  This stadium can't get taken down quick enough.

Johan did his job.  David Wright hit the crap out of the ball and had a huge HR after the rain delay, but this team is really punchless.  Did you think they actually had a chance when the lineup was completed and you had Trot Nixon, Andy Phillips and Fernando Tatis getting ABs?  Once Rivera came out this game was over.  Church and Alou can't get back fast enough.