Sometimes baseball is a weird game. After dropping 7 of their previous 8, the Mets finally looked like a Major League Baseball team the last 3 games, taking the last 2 out of 3 from the Marlins, and winning tonight against the Dodgers.

I was fortunate enough to score last minute tickets to Tuesday's game, and decided to go in the hopes of trying to get this team's luck turned around. I have to say for the first time this season, the Mets and their fans actually looked like they were in the game.

Since the dog days of summer of last year when the Mets suddenly became a sub-par .500 team, the players have just been going through the motions, the fans have been quiet in their seats, and the excitement of 2006 seemed dead and buried. However we saw flashed of that excitement these last three days at Shea.

Could it be the resurgence of Jose Reyes has finally kicked in? Was Fernando Tatis really all this team has been missing? Can it be the bullpen which has been brilliant the last few days? Or is it the orange suit jacket being donned by Mets VP of Media Relations Jay Horowitz?

Whatever the reason, the excitement is back in Queens, the Mets just need to take that excitement and translate it into some wins so they can get back in this race for the NL East.