Fading Mets

They've lost six straight and are 1-9 in their last ten games. Pedro's suprisingly fading just like he did last year, and then there's Carlos Beltran. Here's what Mike Lupica had to say about him:

Bernie Williams has 12 home runs and 61 RBI so far this season, and is supposed to be a player in decline after a great Yankee career.

Williams has been about as productive a hitter as Carlos Beltran, and has had more dramatic swings than Beltran has had.

Beltran came into the weekend, the second week of September in the first year of a contract that will eventually pay him $119 million, with 14 home runs and 65 RBI and a batting average of .271.

Big season?

Beltran never had a big week.

For this one season, he has been as much of a free-agent disappointment as any big hire either the Yankees or Mets have ever made. A thinner Mo Vaughn.