Werent Yankee fans hyped up about them hosting a WC game vs Houston last year? Didnt the Yankees sold the infield dirt or the blades of grass, along with a certificate of authenticity for $99.95?
Let's go METS 2016 thread ......Just get in and anything can happen!
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I was a huge Met fan as a child and really only start watching now if the look like they have a decent season going.. More of a passive fan..... Slightly an anti Yankee fan but again passive.
I do get a charge out of the fans here that cannot stand when the other team has any success...
Neither the Yanks or the Mets had outstanding seasons, but it looks like the Mets are squeezing in.
Anyway, I have always thought baseball late season success is not based on your body of work during the season, it is how you are playing at the end
Since divisional play it sometimes makes it where a non deserving team gets in.... The wild card more so.
Back in 1973, one of the first seasons of divisional play, the Mets won the east with a record of 82-79...
That's three games over .500..... 2 nd place team was at .500.
As you would expect then, the west had several teams with much better records, with Cincy going 99-63
Needless to say, the Mets disposed of the Reds in five games...
Lesson there, throw the regular season out the window.
They then went onto the World Series and had a 3 games to 2 advantage against the A's, another team that won 94 games...
the Mets had great pitchers and just played very good ball when their backs were to the wall.. They actually should have won it all that year, but gave it away
This, from a team three games over .500
Moral here, do the Cubs scare me if they get to play the Mets?..... Not one bit....
Just would like the chance.
I do get a charge out of the fans here that cannot stand when the other team has any success...
Neither the Yanks or the Mets had outstanding seasons, but it looks like the Mets are squeezing in.
Anyway, I have always thought baseball late season success is not based on your body of work during the season, it is how you are playing at the end
Since divisional play it sometimes makes it where a non deserving team gets in.... The wild card more so.
Back in 1973, one of the first seasons of divisional play, the Mets won the east with a record of 82-79...
That's three games over .500..... 2 nd place team was at .500.
As you would expect then, the west had several teams with much better records, with Cincy going 99-63
Needless to say, the Mets disposed of the Reds in five games...
Lesson there, throw the regular season out the window.
They then went onto the World Series and had a 3 games to 2 advantage against the A's, another team that won 94 games...
the Mets had great pitchers and just played very good ball when their backs were to the wall.. They actually should have won it all that year, but gave it away
This, from a team three games over .500
Moral here, do the Cubs scare me if they get to play the Mets?..... Not one bit....
Just would like the chance.
Well, when the Yankees hosted that wild-card game last year it didn't follow a season where they had made it all the way to the World Series. It followed two years of not making the playoffs at all. Slightly different than the mets current situation.
Bottom line: if your team has won only TWO more games than the Yankees this season...and if you think that the Yankees aren't very good....how can you possibly be optimistic about your team's chances of winning it all ? Are you expecting Divine Intervention ?
With a win tonight, Mets at minimum assure that they are playing beyond Sunday. The worst they could finish would be a tie for the wild card and a play-in game on Monday.
Im not expecting sh**. If they win, cool. If not, oh well. As long they're in the playoffs, whatever happens, happens. As long as they dont have any WTF games, which they probably will, Ill go along with the ride.
Im not the one pinning my hopes and dreams over something i dont control or is so miserable that things are not going my way that i gotta take a dump on others for no reason.
FIFY. Mets fans were adults and stayed out of the Yankee threads. Yankee fans did too, because they are too busy with each other here lobbing insults at the Mets. Sad way to live. As I said before, when YOUR local team wins great, when BOTH win, even better, when they play each other IT'S ON.
Tico, I am not sure that the concept of WTF games has any meaning in baseball, the most egalitarian of major sports and the only one without a clock. This is not football, where if a 2-14 beats a 14-2 you can say WTF. The best teams in baseball lose 35% of the time. The worst teams win 35% of the time. In baseball a last place team can beat a first place team 12-1 and no one bats an eyelash.
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Either way, it is fun to read..... The mets began in1962, I was young, went to a lot of games, and losing bothered me, the yanks winning bothered me.. I would like to think I " outgrew" the passion as I got older, but it was probably the many years of average or sub average seasons that caused the passion to wilt
Anyway,
I like the back and forth here, fight on!!
Key being that the Mets had really good pitchers in 1973. The Mets staff this year is depleted, although the young guys have done an excellent job this year. Still amazing to me how much Mets fans disrespect other teams.
Where is the disrespect? I think most Mets fans respect the Nationals, Cubs, Giants, Cardinals, San Francisco, Marlins, etc. This Mets fan even begrudgingly respects those darn Braves, who always seem to be a thorn in the Mets' side.
IIRC, you are a Cubs fan. High level of respect for the Cubs, but I think Mets have fared better vs. Cubs than the Nationals, and IF (BIG IF), the Mets advance, would rather face the Cubs than the Nationals, or the Dodgers before the Nationals. But Cubs have been lights out and will be tough to beat.
It's great playing your game with numbers, isn't it,lol. Nothing to say about how Atlanta's played in the second half?
Generally, Shift, the Mets fans in this thread don't consider the Cubs a problem if they get past the wild card. You said the same in a previous post.
I get it to a certain extent after last year and the regular season. But don't forget, the Cubs went 7-0 against the Mets in the 2015 regular season and it didn't mean much. Some of it may have had to do with the Cubs having to go balls to the wall for the entire month of September and then beat the two best teams in baseball on the road, but a lot of it had to do with the Mets pitching and Murphy getting hot at the right time. Oh, and the Mets had a pretty good team that played pretty well too.
Honestly, I'd rather play one of the other two teams because the Mets are just better right now and as much as fans kill Collins, he has done an incredible job keeping that team together. They will feel like they are playing with house money and that is dangerous. But the Cubs aren't exactly a terrible team either.
Time for a Yankee fan to step up,do the right thing, and at least bump the "here come the Yankees" thread.It's embarrassingly dropped to page 4 or 5 again. Come on guys, feed your own,lmfao.
I figured it would be easier for you to read it through your crying eyes.:joy:
Facts Jack.....FACTS.
The only insult I hurled at you was calling you a mets fan.
Fair enough, and whatever I said (it's been a long season, and have had many different "feelings about this team"), I still like Mets' chances against the Cubs or Dodgers over the Nationals who have owned the Mets. But like you said, you never know what happens in the pressure cooker of the post season. Look at how terrible the Mets did in the World Series last year--that was a shock, and don't know if we will see that formidable pitching rotation in one place again in the future. That said, Mets still need to learn how to produce runs, and dag nabbit, hold runners on base and catch runners stealing. Good luck to the Cubs in the post-season, if and until they meet the Mets. [cheers]
Only a mets fan would place such emphasis on how long their.....thread... is.
We get it. You're lonely and apparently are not welcome on mets boards. So you feel the need to keep a mets thread going here for you and a few others to feel a little better during the ups and downs of a typical baseball season. Unfortunately for you, you've bumped into a few Yankees fans who enjoy so easily annoying said mets fans....mostly with the truth.
I've posted several times about the Jimmy Buffet, Tom Brady, A-Rod, Knicks, Rangers, any many, many other subjects' threads that get contributed to by people who don't particularly like them and post some negative stuff. Why is it so egregious for people to do that in a mets thread on this board ? Why are mets fans so damn sensitive ?
To me, a WTF game is where Terry Collins forgetnto pinch run Wilmer Flores and two minutes later, hes thrown out a lot. Or he leaves Gsellman and Lugo an inning too long when they first got here and instead of giving up one run over 6, its 3, 5 runs over seven. Or when Granderson couldnt hit better than me with the bases loaded and what not. 4 or 5 more games that they threw away like that has them fighting for a WC instead of a division.
Just hope none of the games are rained-out. Double-headers confuse Collins....there are two of each inning in the same day, lots more players, idle time between games, etc. He usually somehow manages to put out a AAA lineup for each game.
Hate to think the Mets have a WTF game or two left in their tanks. Esp because of a doubleheader.
Wait, what?
Yankees need MLB to start looking the other way on steroids again. Yankee fans gotta miss the glory days of playoff wins, syringes and back acne.
Hes one of the WIN AT ALL COSTS type of guys and gets pissed off when it doesnt work anymore.
And if he still dont get his way, the MAGIC NUMBER OF 27 will be brought up.
More like a TRAGIC NUMBER when you consider that they pay for the ring every year. Easily the most under-achieving team in the history of sports.
Hey Sherlock, ask Kansas City if they'd like to be fighting for a WC spot this year?
So if the WC game isn't a "playoff game", that would make how many years in a row the Yankees haven't made them? Oh where oh where have the Roids days gone, oh where oh where have they gone???
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One thing I like about the Mets under Collins, opposing teams respect how they play and how they act on the field. I always felt teams went the extra over the top mile to beat Bobby V teams because of his antics. It always hurt those Mets teams down the stretch.
Thank God it's not THOSE Braves, the one playing 8 games better than the Giants since the All Star break. Makes their sweep of the Mets legit.
Excellent point. Most fans assess managerial talent solely on his in-game decisions, because that is what they see. And yes, TC has made some very questionable decisions. But that is only a small component of the manager's responsibility. To a person, baseball insiders have nothing but praise for Collins' overall managerial performance this year.
I'll take it one step further,just watching how players talk to each other when they get to first base and interact. Those things hardly happened with Bobby V teams. He was old school, you didn't talk to opposing players and they hated the Met players.For all of Terry's faults, even under the worst of times, he never lost that locker room, and it's probably the reason Sandy never canned him.
With two games left in the season, the Braves have the worst record in the National league.
Aren't you lucky they had 19 games against them ? And 19 more vs. the god-awful Phillies.
Good luck vs. Bumgarner.
Yeah...fans of a team with 27 World Series championships...the last one nine years ago.... are always jealous of teams with 2 World Series championships....the last one 30 years ago.
At least some of the other posters in this thread are able to admit how tough it is to be a mets fan.
Dream on.
And you called someone else in this thread a 12 year old? Do I really need to rehash how many of those took place in modern day baseball? Yes your team won them,and just think how many lost opportunities you missed to bust on fans of teams you hate, since either they or you were not even born yet,lol. You missed out on so much fun. Now let's bring back steroids so you can relive the 90's and 2000's. LGM, America's Clean Team.
I guess, you know, playing with numbers,the Braves the last 70 games went young,like your team, and have played just as well as them. Christ, it kills me to defend the Braves, but tough times, demand tough measures,and arguing with thick, numskulls, is tough business[sick].
Over half achieved when either blacks weren't allowed to play or your squad tried to emulate Schwartzenegger's training program.
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