Mark it down: 7:38pm on Wednesday, September 21, 2005. That's the first moment I heard anyone affiliated with the Mets or Mets' telecasts mention the fact that David Wright is near a Mets record. It was at that moment that MSG flashed a graphic showing David Wright with 41 doubles - 3 away from Bernard Gilkey's team-record.

I don't want to brag, but....it's been a good two months (actually, a little more) for the Wright Watch on johnnymets.blogspot.com, and we've been watching for doubles ever since. So you knew that Wright was only 4 doubles away (well, maybe you didn't realize it was four - because late Tuesday night, in the 12th inning, Wright hit number 41, then scored the game-winning run to beat the Marlins on a Mike Jacobs single) from breaking the record. Wright needs 4 more doubles in the team's final 11 games to beat the record - and he's not quite done in game number 151 - this one might go extra's too.

Just wanted to give that update. I love the fact that the Mets can pretty much eliminate the Marlins from the post-season. I love Dontrelle Willis, but the rest of the Marlins strike me as a bunch of punks who don't appreciate what they had two years ago when they won the World Series. I don't like rooting for them.