New York baseball rolling right along

Baseball is New York’s summer game, and the locals are moving right along. Johan Santana FINALLY showed some manly virtues and pitched like an ace yesterday. ‘Bout time., even in the watered down pitching we have today.

Let’s face it, the Mets are a collapse Tuesday by the pen and a big hit on Saturday from being 4 or 5 games ahead. Carlos Delgado has rediscovered the Fountain of Youth (hopefully not steroids) and the starting pitching, minus Brandon Knight’s rough outing Saturday, has been good. A big three game set with the Marlins at the Fish Tank starts tonight in Miami. By the way, is Raul Ibanez in the Mets’ future? NOT if it means Niese and NO WAY Pelfrey. Perez for Manny Ramirez? Maybe-check back Friday.

The only reason why the Yankees didn’t pick up up any ground on first place this weekend-the Rays copied the Bombers this weekend. BUT-they can beat the Red Sox, and right now Joba, Moose and Pettitte are as good a threesome as any playoff contender around. Once again, the Yanks pulled off a heist worthy of the Jesse James gang. Nady and Marte for four kids that will be bagging groceries in two years? Back in the day, Bowie Kuhn nulls that deal. The Pirates need to be contracted-NOW.

Remember: I said at the start of the season that the NYC squads will be lucky to get to the postseason.