Its funny how now that the Mets have taken two games from the Yankees over the weekend that what was perceived by many in the media as a firestorm in the form of Billy Wagner’s locker room comments is now being framed by the same media members as the fire the Mets needed to get back on track.

Perception is reality, and the perception of Wagner’s outburst, as innocuous as it may have actually been, as Wagner is often known to wisecrack in the locker room for comic effect than for actual effect, was too good to pass up and run with as the Molotov cocktail that would divide a clubhouse and put its manager in the hot seat.

Funny what a difference two days makes.

So now the story is framed as the turning point of the Mets season, whether or not that is the case could change again in the next two days as the Mets actually play a team that matters in their divisional aspirations. Will the press reframe the story again if the Mets trip up in Atlanta?

In the fickle back pages of the New York tabloids, you’re only as good as your last performance, and the perceptions of that reality can get reframed in a New York minute depending on the direction the wind happens to be blowing from out of the mouth of your outspoken closer.