Psychic's verdict: Stick a fork in Mets

Something's missing -- 'Like a pizza without cheese' -- says guy who leads the league in ESP

Saturday, September 29, 2007
By TEVAH PLATT
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It's not in the cards for the Mets this season.

"It ain't over till it's over," Yogi Berra famously quipped, but for one Staten Island psychic, it's over even before it ain't.

"They're not going to come close to winning whatsoever," seer Jim Weiss said yesterday. "I just don't get a good feeling about this team."

Zillions of pundits and fans have been getting bad vibes from this New York nine since they started tanking last month, and you don't need a sixth sense to read the stats.

The Mets lost a comfortable seven-game lead over the Phillies and now stand a game behind after last night's 7-4 loss.

Looking ahead to this tense weekend of baseball, which will likely decide whether the Mets will make the playoffs, the Advance consulted with Weiss in his Prince's Bay office:

"I hope I'm wrong, but I wrote them off back in June," he said. "It's as if they're out of step. They're not coordinated as a team."

The Yankees, he said, won't win either.

Neither will the "Sawx."

The augur added: If Joe Torre is fired, the Mets will pick him up -- but the Amazin's won't win a World Series in the next five years.

"There's something missing there," offered Weiss, who says he doesn't follow baseball. "They're like a pizza without cheese."

But there are still those who gotta believe.

"I feel that the Mets have got a good chance," said one West Brighton soothsayer who didn't have time to perform a full reading.

Astrologer Tanya Milton of St. George said it would take several days' work to run star charts for the bombing bullpen -- five days for the whole team. But she did perform a tarot card reading for slumping shortstop Jose Reyes, using his date of birth to predict his fate:

"I'm sensing that he's feeling very insecure about his fans, and that might put him in a tilt," she said. "If he could block out negative energy and focus on the game, he will prove himself and it will be a good [series]. Geminis depend a lot on the approval of others. Their egos need to be stroked."

Fans will be out at Shea today despite the bleak predictions.

Divination aside -- where there's an inning, there's a chance.