The Wright and Wrong Report: Is It Over Yet?

"Abreu looks up...And we're going home!!!!!!" -- Gary Cohen on SNY, 12:32 a.m. 5/24/06

I will remember that call for a long, long time.

It's 11 hours later, and I'm still not sure what to write.

What does it say about a 16 inning, 5 hour and 22 minute game that the best player on the field was the losing pitcher?

That this team--which a co-worker said just last week had "no heart"--came back from deficits of 2-0, 6-2 and 8-5.

And that I had forgotten that David Wright had blasted another home run until listening to Mets Extra as I attempted to calm down and go to bed? (By the way, our Met of focus is now batting at a .370 clip since May 4th, and the power is coming back too.)

And that Gary Cohen had botched a couple of calls in the extra innings (Jose Reyes' catch of a line drive to start a double play, for example) and lost all objectivity in trying to will Cliff Floyd's fly out in the 14th (or was it the 13th? I am foggy) out of the ballpark. Did he have a hot date somewhere?

And that Ron Darling called tonight's pitcher a "Cuban defect?"

And that the most maligned player this side of A-Rod would finally have a moment that could define his career in the big apple? (Good for him.)

Willie Randolph said it best after the game: "You can't lose that kind of game. You use all your roster, you have to win the game. You're out there that long, you don't want to waste it."

Whew.

P.S.: Our friends Greg and Jason at Faith and Fear tell us that exactly seven years ago there was just as big a comeback against the Phillies. Creepy.