You May Ask Yourself, Well, How Did I Get Here?

Last night, I had a dream. I had an awesome dream. The Mets were in first place, and a Mets pitcher not named Santana was leading all of baseball in ERA. This despite the fact that, as a team, they were scraping the bottom in batting average, not hitting for power, and scoring fewer runs than twenty other teams. Nope. It's not a dream. These first-place Mets are a good team. But we know intuitively that they're not "8 wins out of 10" good. What they've been so far is a combination of lucky and opportunistic. When you give up five hits and five walks in five innings, you can't expect a win, but that's what new Mets ace Mike Pelfrey got the other night -- a shutout win, no less. When your offense in that game consists of five singles and a well-timed scamper around the bases by Jose ("Mis Tendones Son Bien") Reyes, you can't expect a win. The Mets are getting wins we shouldn't rightly expect out of them right now. In recent years, we&#...