New York Mets

After an Opening Day victory against the Florida Marlins, the Mets dropped the following two games to start the season 1-2.

With the exception of last night, the team showed that it is capable of scoring runs. The preseason idea that the Mets will remain in a lot of games if their pitching is at least serviceable appears to be holding true.

With that in mind, the Mets will turn to essentially their No. 2 and No. 3 starters Friday and Saturday for the first two games against the Washington Nationals.

New York Mets slugger David Wright went yard in his first game of 2010 thanks to some new training techniques.

Wright teamed with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino for a new Vitamin Water commercial that sheds light on his off-season regimen. Take a look.

The New York Mets got what they really didn’t need in their opening series against the Florida Marlins—a series loss. They desperately need to get off to a good start this season.

If they don’t, their fans are going to turn on them rather quickly. There will be no patience at Citi Field this year.

Let’s look at what else is going with the boys from Flushing and see if there is any help on the way.

Carlos Beltran To Begin Running

The Mets made it easy for anyone to savage them this offseason. They were not proactive in improving the team talentwise.

With that said, they added quality baseball people in the organization. That’s something that should not be overlooked.

They hired Chip Hale, Bob Melvin, Wally Backman, Dave Jauss, and Terry Collins to work with the players. The organization believes good coaching helps players get better.

So begins the sophomore campaign at New York's Citi Field. While many questions have arisen about the quality of the product on the field, the forum in which the Mets play is nothing less that stellar. During the Mets miserable 2009 campaign, the beauty of Citi Field was perhaps lost, with New Yorkers attention seemingly fixed on the Mets' crosstown rivals in the Bronx. Twelve thoughts and observations on my maiden 2010 voyage to the Mets' home...

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Fans like Spring training for couple of reasons.

For one thing, it's the start of a brand new season. Second of all, it piques their interest of watching the young prospects play.

Teams take note of the latter. They hype their young players to get fans to watch these meaningless exhibition games.

Earlier today I pointed out one of my favorite blogs, Mike Ashmore’s Thunder Thoughts. There is another blog you should be reading called Confessions of a She-Fan written by Jane Heller.

She isn’t the tireless reporter in the vein of Ashmore, but she does have something in common with him: great writing. Her insights and humor are second to none. Aside from her great writing, you should be reading her blog these days because she’s running a contest in which the winner will receive cookies.

The New York Mets are a naturally occurring source of negativity.

You’d think they’d never won a World Series—something eight other expansion teams can claim, plus seven other clubs that have not exceeded the two championships won by the Mets.

Yet here we are at the beginning of another season, and the Mets are given little chance to finish third in the NL East, much less first.

Las Vegas has the Mets as an 18-to-1 underdog. Seems like pretty good odds compared to 100-to-1.

Baseball was back at Citi Field yesterday after what seemed like an especially long winter, especially considering the events of the 2009 Mets season.

Mets fans were out in full force and, surprisingly enough, there was a celebratory atmosphere at the ballpark.

The ballpark itself seemed to sparkle while showing off some tweaks and improvements. When David Wright deposited a Josh Johnson pitch into the right field seats, I swear I could almost feel the building letting out a sigh of relief.

When you evaluate the Mets chances of seriously challenging the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East this year, what is the biggest obstacle they need to overcome?

While staying healthy would be near the top of many people's lists, in my opinion it all hinges on starting pitching.

Outside of Johan Santana, just how much do you trust the two-through-five combination of Mike Pelfrey, Oliver Perez, Jonathan Maine, and Jonathon Niese?