"I'm going to be honest with you, when I got down to the Dominican, I said (to Colon and his doctors), 'You better realize, we'll make this guy feel better, but he's never going to play baseball again, probably.' At his age then (37), he was throwing 75 mph," Purita told the Daily News Thursday, a short time after Colon improved his record to 4-0 on the season following the Mets' 6-3 victory against Atlanta. "So far, so good, as the old saying goes. Just goes to show you, you don't have to be in the best of shape."