I honestly meant to write over the weekend and before now but I haven’t made the time.

And a lot has happened since I last posted before Saturday’s game.

So let’s break it down:

-After Friday’s little dust-up the Mets seemed to get back at the Phillies in the best way possible - they pounced right on them in the first inning Saturday night and looked like they would blow them out. But in typical Mets fashion they let Philadelphia back in the game and needed a Michael Conforto 9th inning homer to hang on and win.

-On Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN the Mets and Phillies went back and forth and with the Mets trailing 4-2 in the 8th, Brandon Kintzler and none other than Jose Alvarado allowed the Mets to come back and take the lead, and then Pete Alonso delivered a 3-run bases-clearing double to make it 8-4. That looked like a great story, beating Alvarado (or allowing him to beat himself, really, since he was just plain wild), but then in typical Mets fashion they almost let the lead slip away and needed a replay review to overturn a home run by Rhys Hoskins to cling to an 8-7 win.

-Jeurys Familia got the one out for the save in that game as Edwin Diaz left with a back issue. And Jacob deGrom was scratched from his Tuesday start with a lat issue that an MRI showed isn’t too bad. (But I’ll panic until I see him pitch again.) And Brandon Nimmo and J.D. Davis are battling hand injuries.

-All of which was overtaken by Monday. The Mets lost to the Cardinals, 6-5, in a game they led 5-2 after 2 and a half. Joey Lucchesi left early after surrendering that lead, and the bullpen pitched well, but the Mets couldn’t get the win. After the game the Mets fired their hitting coaches, Chili Davis and Tom Slater. They brought in Hugh Quattlebaum and Kevin Howard. This sounds like the front office just bringing in guys they want instead of guys they inherited but - say it with me - in typical Mets fashion it has become a bigger deal than it needed to be. Over the weekend the players talked about a creation of theirs, Donnie Stevenson, who was an ‘approach coach’ that motivated them and was the secret to the new, short-lived explosion on offense. The Donnie Stevenson story has nothing to do with the hitting coach change (though Chili Davis reportedly said, “it didn’t help”) , but the players seemed to take it personally that the two events converged. It also doesn’t seem that the motivation is to get the guys to wake up - but maybe it will serve as a wake-up call. My two cents: if players are hearing conflicting messages from coaches and upper management, which it seems may have been the case, then maybe they’re thinking too much in high pressure situations, and that’s where the struggles with runners in scoring position come in. Maybe Francisco Lindor didn’t like the hitting coaches and the Mets have more invested in him than the coaches. Maybe it’s just a change that was going to happen no matter what and happened this weekend. (Well, late on a Monday night, which is also weird, but you know what I mean.)

The Mets are 11-12 with a doubleheader in St. Louis today and more and more signs that this is not the perfect season I thought it might be.

Right now the only saving grace might be that their new hitting coach - Hugh Quattlebaum - has a name that sounds more made up than the actual guy the Mets made up this weekend.