I posted this pic because no matter what is going on with my Mets when the AL East standings look like this I can’t help but smile.

(before yesterday’s final scores were reported)

No worries about Johan Santana and his routine, according to Steve Popper of the Bergan Record, he didn’t even warm-up:

“I was just hanging out, waiting, on a holding pattern,” Santana said. “I didn’t get the chance to put my uniform on. It’s better than warming up and everything. I’ll be ready [today]. We’ll start all over.”

According to plenty of reports, the Mets players cleared the air and covered more than just the Billy Wagner outburst. Marty Noble of Mets.com had this quote from an unidentified player:

“If it means hitting behind the runner, being more accountable with the media or holding your tongue — it’s got to be done if we’re going to get moving,” one player said. “We got past the stuff with Billy and Carlos Delgado pretty quick.”

Newsday’s David Lennon covers the aftermath of the Wagner mess. Wagner thought it was unfair that the reports of what he said were interpreted by some as racial or equal to remarks Paul Lo Duca made last season:

When a reporter linked Wagner to Lo Duca on Friday, the closer erupted. “Who? Oh, that’s right. Lo Duca. I’m Billy,” Wagner said. When the reporter tried to cut in, Wagner shot back: “There’s no exception to that. I’m Billy Wagner and he’s Paul Lo Duca, so you can’t really put him in my boat. That’s something that he said. What I said was nowhere near what he supposedly said. You can’t take what I say and tie it to what he says for — – and giggles.”

ESPN Insider Buster Olney reported that the Mets along with the the Red Sox, Braves, Yankees, White Sox, Rangers and Mariners are keeping an eye on free agent Freddy Garcia who is recovering from surgery and continues to make steady progress in his throwing program, and next week, he’s likely to begin throwing off a mound.

Ed Ryan of Mets Fever breaks down the Mets “issues” with his version of five stages of grieving dating back to last season… its a good read. Check it out.

This picture provided by the folks over at Church Of The Fonz shows us how they get through a day without Mets baseball.

Here’s some things I found to be good readin around the interwebs…

• Mike Lupica of the Daily News looks at Johan Satana’s Shea debut and the why behind us ornery Mets fans.
• Jessica Bader of take the 7 train brings us with her to yesterday’s last Shea home opener, video and all.
• Metstradamus remembers it being exactly 11 months ago that Ben Sheets and Brewers gave Mets fans other memories we would soon like to forget.
• Steve Serby of NY Post does some Q & A with “red hot” Mets OF Angel Pagan. We learn that Angel is not only hot with the bat but when he was with the Brooklyn Cyclones he was pretty “hot” with the ladies. Girls would scream from the stands “Angel, I love you.” “Angel will you marry me?” “Angel, you’re beautiful!” Stuff like that. It was crazy, but it was nice at the same time” said Pagan.
• Mets Fever’s Ed Ryan is up in arms over the treatment Johan Santana received yesterday at Shea. Ed says “we are better than that” and that it was “embarrassing”.

Well, Ed I agree it was embarrassing but I hate to say this, we are not better than that.