I’m a pretty optimistic guy. Glass half-full, keep on keepin’ on, etc. Hell, one of my favorite Radiohead songs is “Optimistic.” But I’m finding it really tough to keep making excuses for the Mets. For six games in a row, the opponent has scored first and with the way they’re hitting (team average at .249), [...]

Early this morning Adam Rubin tweeted that the Mets have a possible rotation shuffle in the works, and that Mike Pelfrey will not be starting the second game of the season against the Marlins. Now there was no official rotation order to shuffle that we know of, but the supposed rotation order (Santana, Pelfrey, Perez, [...]