I could probably write an entire post about SNY’s broadcast team for Awesomestock. I won’t because I don’t want to seem like an abject shill, plus I don’t know that there are many Mets fans who disagree with me. I watch a ton of out-of-town games through the absurdly amazing MLB Extra Innings package, and I can easily argue that no booth in baseball so ably balances detailing the intricacies of the game and conveying appropriate amounts of excitement without delving into pathetic homerism.

But Gary, Keith and Ron, awesome though they are, mentioned several times recently that the Mets win 80 percent of games in which Jose Reyes scores two or more runs. That’s a misleading stat. The Mets win 77 percent of games in which David Wright scores two or more runs and 85 percent of games in which Luis Castillo or Carlos Beltran scores two or more runs. Basically, once a player amasses a large enough sample of multiple-run games for his team, you should expect that the team won a huge percentage of them. For a variety of reasons, if one guy scores multiple runs it probably means the rest of his team scored a few more.

The reason I quibble with the stat and how frequently it is cited on the broadcast is simple: There’s no need to quantify what Jose Reyes means to the Mets beyond the obvious. The Mets, for the bulk of Reyes’ tenure with the club, have been a top-heavy offensive team fueled by the contributions of a few legitimately excellent players. Jose Reyes is one of those excellent players. He is part of what makes the team top-heavy. He’s a heavy near the top.

I overhead a couple of reporters talking about Reyes in Citi Field’s tunnels yesterday. I couldn’t make out all of their conversation, but what I heard sounded something like this:

“Robble robble Reyes robble robble about time.”

“Robble Spring Training robble robble two months already.”

“Robble robble excuse robble.”

That’s not to call out these two anonymous reporters or even the New York media for its frequent impatience with Reyes. If you surveyed all Mets fans to gauge general perception of their shortstop, I imagine the summary statement would read something like, “Jose Reyes robble robble robble!”

And there might be something about immaturity or injury or unrealized potential in there too, because we all love to believe we know Reyes from what little he divulges of himself during games and to the press, and because so many people forget he spent the four seasons before last year almost entirely healthy and the last three of them as one of the very best players in baseball.

Reyes has not been one of the very best players in baseball this season. He has a .238/.279/.324 line for the year, totals languishing in the Rey Ordonez realm.

But Reyes has put together four straight multi-hit games and five in his last six. He homered last night and ended the game with a leaping snag on a sinking liner.

And he torched that triple Tuesday, a slicing liner that stole past Jayson Werth and one-hopped the wall in Citi Field’s deepest cavern. Reyes bounded around the bases and slid headfirst into third ahead of the throw, and everyone watching remembered the way the Mets drew it up when they built the place.

Reyes looked like Reyes again, and then again last night. I could reasonably contend that missing Spring Training after missing most of 2009 slowed Reyes’ start in 2010, and that a month-long immersion program into full-fledged baseball is a whole lot different than working up to speed at the same time as everyone else back in March.

But I won’t bother, because this isn’t a day for figuring out why things go wrong. This is Awesomestock, a day for celebrating the awesome. And Jose Reyes is awesome. Celebrate him.