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What an Amazin way to end a pretty crazy 48 hours. It's a cliché, but you really couldn't have scripted that better. There's not a Mets fan anywhere who doesn't love this kid right now.

Just amazing some of the unbelievable stories that sports brings to us. As a Phillies, I felt the similar emotions when Hamels pitched a no hitter in his last game in a Phils uniform. Now Flores even tops that tonight. You truly never know what you're going to see.

Tears in my eyes watching that Glenn.

Happened to be watching it when he knocked it out. Was truly a great moment. Good to see a little energy out of the Mets. Have been such a boring team for so long.

I took my 2 boys to the Mets game on Wednesday. Figuring the crowd would be small without one of the big 3 pitching, I figured we would get great seats. And we did. It was an awful performance by Bartolo Colon and I decided we would likely leave early. It was a hot night. When Wilmer Flores came to the plate to a standing ovation, I didn't know what was happening. I wasn't on my cell and no one around us was talking about it. After getting out on a ground ball, another cheer from the fans and I decided to google his name on my cell. There it was, Flores and Wheeler traded for Carlos Gomez. I was close enough to the field to see his teammates in the dugout trying to console him, but not until after the game did I realize he was crying. Inexplicably he was sent back in the field. The game ended, with nothing more than 3 solo home runs by Lucas Duda, to cheer about, but Carlos Gomez was coming to New York.

Sitting in traffic on the Whitestone Bridge, excited about the trade, I heard the interview with Sandy Alderson and my dreams of a Mets insurgence were faded. The trade never happened. What happened Thursday, blowing a 7-1 lead, was just brutal. But there was Friday and there was still a chance of a trade and maybe a good weekend against the Nationals. The trade for Cespedes was acceptable, although not my first choice, since we were just renting him.

What happened on Friday night was amazing. Wilmer Flores was in the lineup. It was a night where we sat in the stands and just kept saying to each other, Wilmer is going to do it. He is going to win it for us. But, it wasn't just about winning. It was seeing an entire fan base embrace a guy who isn't the greatest player, is pretty awful in the field, and other than a bunch of home runs, wasn't a very good hitter either. He is a part time shortstop. But this guy gave us something else. He got a standing ovation before every at bat on Friday.

Wilmer Flores wanted to be a Met. He was a Met since before he learned how to drive. He knew nothing else. He wanted to play for the Mets and there is no more sincere way to show it, than crying (for everyone to see) when learning he was traded. If you are any kind of baseball fan, you have to respect that kind of emotion.

Wilmer drove in the first run on Friday, but the game went into extra innings. There was no chance we were leaving. Another standing ovation as Wilmer comes up to the plate in the 12th inning and the fans erupted into the loudest roar I have ever heard at Citi Field, as he hit a home run to win the game. Walking out of the stadium, to cheers of Wilmer Flores echoing everywhere, it was electric. Something that New York fans do as good as anyone. They hate you when you lose and let you know it, but when you win, there isn't a better place to be.

Friday night was a storybook ending, but maybe it just gave life to a team that, the night before, looked like they were done. Yes I am a Mets fan and I hope they do something this year in September, but this story was not just about being a Mets fan, it was about being a baseball fan and watching a city embrace a part time shortstop, for showing true emotion for simply wanting to play for their team. Gotta love this game.