Mets vs. Braves - April 19, 2026

This morning, while I was having a cup of coffee, a rift formed in the space/time continuum.  It must have happened when a drop of coffee landed on my cell phone, sending a spark directly into my desktop PC.  Suddenly, a blog appeared on my monitor.  It was by Mets Fan in Texas, and was dated April 19, 2026.  What it said was even more remarkable.  So here it is - a look into the future:

Well, another season, another series with the Braves.  The Mets needed to make a statement after getting off to a hot start.  The Mets, 12-1 and in first place by 10 games, had their ace, Victor Zambrano Jr., going in the rubber game against a Braves team that has struggled early on.  Their pitching has been lit up, their hitters in a slump, and they are the worst fielding team in baseball. 

However, they still have won 34 division titles in a row, and must be considered the team to beat in the NL North American division.  And they won the second game of this series (handing the Mets their first loss) by a score of 20 - 0.  48 year-old Andruw Jones hit 4 home runs off of fellow 40 year-old Mike Pelfrey, before manager David Wright pulled him.  Wright dropped the ball when Pelfrey handed it to him, then threw it into the dugout as he tried to hand it to the reliever.

In the rubber game, Zambrano Jr. walked 12 in 1 2/3, as the Braves rolled, 16 - 1.  John Smoltz, Jr., who had a 59.66 ERA, and hadn't gotten past the 2nd inning in any of his starts coming into the game, pitched a complete game 1 hitter.  The only Mets run came in the eighth, when the cordless bullpen phone slipped out of Wright's hand and knocked out Chipper Jones, Jr., while he was trying to field a ground ball.  This allowed 67 year-old Julio Franco to score from third.

The Mets, still with a 9 game lead, must find a way to beat the Braves if they want to win the division.  This is eerily similar to what happened back in 2006, when the Mets came into their first Braves series with a 9 - 2 record, before they lost 2 out of 3 to Atlanta.  And we all remember what happened that season.  Man, I don't think we'll ever see anything like that again. 

So it's on to Mars for an interplanetary match up against the Vikings.  The light gravity plays havoc with pitchers, so it should be a high-scoring affair.

And that's where it cuts off.  I'm feverishly trying to soak my phone in coffee to try to get more information.

So it looks like Mets fans are in for more suffering.  40 days in the desert?  Big deal.  How about 20 more years of losing to the Braves?