Afternoon Re-Blight

"Do they lose every weekday game when I'm listening at work?" a reader asked late in this afternoon's affair. If I am to assume he has listened to every weekday game this year, yeah, just about. Opening Day was a weekday game and it was triumphant (thanks in great part to the awesome relief work provided by Sean Green and J.J. Putz — boy, Opening Day was suddenly a long time ago). There have been five midweek matinees since and each of them has ranged from dismal to abysmal and then some, culminating in the lousy Pirates sweeping us out of town. Just as the Allegheny meets the Monongahela to form the mighty Ohio, the Mets in Pittsburgh represented a confluence of their own: lousy pitching joined with ineffectual hitting to create three injury-riddled losses. Mets are coming and going these days, few doing anything worthwhile in between. The David seemed reborn in terms of reappearing on the basepaths (he also saved Putz even more embarrassment on a heads-up play...