There's no baseball today, at least no mets baseball. A perfect time to share some random thoughts following yesterdays season opener.

Loved Keith's blue and orange color combo last night. Its good to see him putting aside any problems he had with the Cards organization aside, but its even better to see him showing his Mets colors. It was a little dissapointing to hear his daughters are Cards fans.  Don't worry Keith, I still think we should retire your jersey. And at least they're not Yankee fans.

Some might say its jumping the gun, but personally it seems like Shawn Green isn't going to be as bad as everyone thought.  He went two for four, and although he isn't hitting for power (yet), he's connecting and hitting safely.

And while I'm sure we can talk on end about the potency of the Mets lineup, more important: the defense.  All those double plays, the Beltran outfield assist, Stache making the stops, thats what I like to see in Mets baseball, because those are the plays that will be more important as we hit the 4 and 5 spots of our rotation. And while these guys tend to make it look easy, we shouldn't forget that it really isn't. Only guys like Beltran and Endy can make some of those throws to catch a guy.

As cool as it was to see Glavine get a hit, I'm sure I'm not the only one who was relieved to see him removed before he was required to do more running.  Met pitchers on the basebaths just give me Brian Bannister flashbacks.