OK Mets fans, here's a question:

Are you starting to worry yet?

I know, a curious questions considering the way the Mets are playing these days. They have a three-game lead in the NL East with less than three weeks remaining in the season. The Phillies certainly don't look like they don't have the pitching to stay with them and the Mets' remaining schedule appears pretty favorable.

The division's in the bag, isn't it? Not if you ask any Mets fan who saw the Amazins begin to choke up a seven-game lead to these same Phillies about this time last year.

Logic says lightning can't strike twice and I tend to agree. I just can't see Philadelphia catching them again this year.

So why is it so many of my friends, who are Mets fans, are beginning to wring their hands more nervously than a Barack Obama supporter these days? It should be interesting.

By the way folks, that's about as close to talking about the presidential election as I will get.