Sean Gilmartin on way to join Mets

The results were awful this week, but I finally feel like the Nationals are a real rival.

"We're better than that," Mets manager Terry Collins said about how the Mets played. "We're a lot better than that."

He's right. However, it's this cat-and-mouse, they're in first, Mets are in first, Nationals win, Mets win, over and over again, now happening for a year, that has let a real rivalry be born...

The Mets do not have a Red Sox, like the Yankees. And, that's OK. I kind of like the rotating rivalries, because it keeps the dynamic fresh. I hated the Cardinals in the 80s. I loathed the Braves in the late 90s. 10 years later, I despised the Phillies. And now, 10 years after the Phillies, I'm angry…