In difficult times such as these sometimes it’s healthy to try to find a silver lining. I’ve got 23 of them for you:

1. We won’t have to watch any games on either Fox or TBS.
2. It’s only 2007 and we already have our pesky “once in a hundred years” collapse out of the way.
3. Ricky Ledee retired.
4. Pedro Martinez’s surgery proved successful.
5. Carlos Gomez, Lastings Milledge, Fernando Martinez and Mike Pelfrey were still Mets after July 31st.
6. We didn’t sign Barry Zito.
7. John Maine and Oliver Perez won 15 games each.
8-Jose Reyes set the Mets single season steals record, officially wiping any record of Roger Cedeno being a Met off the books.
9-It only took 161 games, but we finally got to see a brawl (sort of).
10-Gary, Ron and Keith were a lot of fun.
11-No one needed Tommy John surgery.
12-David Wright had a near MVP season.
13-Carlos Beltran quietly put together another good year.
14-Citifield made a lot of progress.
15-Cliff Floyd made the playoffs.
16-Scott Kazmir won’t win the AL Cy Young award.
17-We were the entire left side of NL infield in the All-Star game.
18-David Wright did not hit in the home run contest.
19-Rick Peterson took off his jacket a couple of times
20-2007 was “disastrous Japanese import” free.
21-We won’t have to use David Newhan in a critical post-season spot.
22-We’ve got some serious motivation for 2008.
23-Regardless of outcome, it’s still magic to be a Mets fan.

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