MET NOTES

ATLANTA – The scene was weird. The comment was unneeded and it was one Bobby Valentine later took back.

And it all happened before the Mets beat the

Braves for just the third time in 23 games at Turner Field.

“If we don’t make the playoffs, I gladly take Fred [Wilpon] off the hook, if we have to get into that nonsense again,” Valentine said in his pre-game talk in his road manager’s office.

Valentine was later asked what hook Fred is on?

“I shouldn’t have said that,” Valentine said before last night’s 6-3 victory. “Please, I’ve got to retract that silly thing. I was trying to cut to the chase, jump to a conclusion to what someone was going to be ask.”

On Aug. 31, Wilpon – the more influential of the two co-owners – told The Post his intentions in terms of bringing back Valentine.

The question that day was: Do you want Valentine back?

“Both Nelson [Doubleday] and I do,” Wilpon told The Post. “It’s Steve [Phillips’] decision and he does as well.”