The Mets have kept me interested to the very end these past 2 seasons. I'm happy for that. ...anything else is gravy.
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Tyler Kepner conveniently forgets that the 2006 Cardinals won 83 regular season games...and the World Series.
Once in, every team has a 0-0 record.
That said, having to face MadBum in a winner take all game is, um, suboptimal.
I'm happy that the Mets have made it this far with Harvey, deGrom, Matz, Wheeler, Wright on the shelf, with Lagares and Flores unable to bat. Collins has done an admirable job, with a leaky bullpen, too.
Once in, every team has a 0-0 record.
That said, having to face MadBum in a winner take all game is, um, suboptimal.
I'm happy that the Mets have made it this far with Harvey, deGrom, Matz, Wheeler, Wright on the shelf, with Lagares and Flores unable to bat. Collins has done an admirable job, with a leaky bullpen, too.
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... and Walker and Wright and until very recently Duda too.
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Yes, Mr. Stengel. Someone here does know how to play this game. (At last!)
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There are a lot of great individual story lines to this team. Apart from it being just more fun, winning would make a much better story.
Mr. Kepner before you berate the Mets for playing in a league that does not have 5 really good teams you do know that the Mets are tied with the Cubs & Dodgers for the best record in baseball for the 2nd half?
BTW how are your Yankees doing Mr. Kepner?
BTW how are your Yankees doing Mr. Kepner?
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It is fascinating that the difference between many equally talented major and minor leaguers is the ability of players to perform mentally rather than physically.
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Collins should be manager of the year no matter what.
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Terry Collins deserves great praise for having managed this team through all of the injuries, keeping the expectation of winning alive and finding the hot handed hitters again and again.
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If the Mets manage to dog it out to the post season, without their starting rotation no less, it would exorcise the demons of their epic collapses from 2008 and 2012. It would really confirm that the franchise has entered a new era.
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only winning the world series will satisfy us this time round no half measures
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This season is a success no matter what happens. The overcome a multitude of problems, and never gave up
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For all of his in-game foibles Terry Collins has done a masterful job of keeping his players focused and productive. Managers matter and Terry is proving it every game.
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Why not shorten the season by one week to make room for a three-game wild card playoff? The division winners should be better able to handle any waiting time.
Keep the one game playoff, shorten the season by a week and remove another 15 games from the season so that player get more time to rest during the season and perhaps reduce the number of injuries they get during the grind of a 162 game season. Surely 140 games a year is enough for all but the most die hard baseball fan.
Truth is, this may be one of the most amazing and impressive seasons in Mets history.
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One game is appropriate. It's a wild card, no a full hand. You just have to play the card you're dealt.
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I'm always surprised that no matter the sport, the experts who report on the teams never refer to a team's chemistry. Team chemistry is the single, most determinative factor that explains why some teams over-achieve while other, seemingly better teams fall flat. The only championship team in my lifetime that didn't have great chemistry and won anyway were the Yankee teams with Jackson and Munson. They were truly dysfunctional. But every good team, every team that wins big games, that upsets more-heavily favored teams (watch out Chicago) has players who love to pla and who just plain click with each other. The Mets are such a team. It makes them very dangerous.
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You must not remember the 86 Mets. Players hated each other
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"The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed."
"Never make predictions, especially about the future."
- Casey Stengel
"Never make predictions, especially about the future."
- Casey Stengel
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