Standings 2006

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Years from now, this thread will be fascinating.

[Elster88]

Nah.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Seems to me choosing to criticize a guy who's doing the math for the rest of us over the option of simply ignoring what doesn't float your boat is a helluva lot more tiresome, ugly and uninteresting.

[Elster88]

Wow. Funny how you want me to ignore many posts that are tiresome and ugly to me, but that you didn't want to ignore my single ugly, tiresome post.

No, it doesn't float my personal boat. Does that mean I shouldn't post how I feel? Or is it just that my words were too harsh for the delicate natures of the readers here?

Yancy didn't seem too bothered by it. Yancy, if you were offended, I apologize.

My opinion stands.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

No games have been played yet this morning.

The magic number is still 92

[Elster88]

As Yancy is pointing out to me, bitching and complaining usually doesn't work around here anyway.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

FWIW, despite my fears of attracting the attention of the baseball gods, I kind of like the countdown.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Five weeks ago (on the first page of this thread) the magic number was 130. That's quite a drop; it shows we're making progress towards the big goal.

[Centerfield]

For what it's worth, this thread, as the title suggests, is a good way to keep track of standings throughout the year. The magic number part is just and added bonus (or drawback depending on your point of view).

My feeling on this is simple. If we win the division, this countdown will be fun, and I'll be glad Yancy did it. If we don't win the division and fall short, this thread will make me want to hurl.

[nymr83]

+8.5 games over Philly. Lets Go Mets!

[TransMonk]

Tonight's win coupled with Detroit's loss gives the Mets the best winning percentage in baseball. Detroit has played 2 more games than the Mets and have one more win and one more loss.

The Mets with their 8.5 game lead in the NL East have a bigger lead in their division than all the other division leaders combined.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

WARNING: Those of you who are bored by magic numbers may want to avert your eyes.

The Mets victory over the Phillies last night drops the magic number to 90.

[Elster88]

I thought I had explained myself, but apparently not.

My only thought was that when this thread is done, it will be a laundry list of magic numbers which would be tedious to read through. I imagine most everyone will scroll right through them.

Sue me, you big orange rock.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

You'll be hearing from Matt Murdock.

The magic number countdown isn't for posterity's sake. It's for the present.

[Elster88]

BTW, I'm not angry or trying to pick a fight or anything.

I changed my mind, don't sic your lawyer on me.

Edit: I'm Cleon Jones.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

88

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ho


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CUH


RAP!

[Elster88]

Do it. Post them.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

You're getting Magic Number Fever, aren't you?

We all succumb eventually.

[Elster88]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: You're getting Magic Number Fever, aren't you? We all succumb eventually.

Nope. Standings fever. If I had magic number fever I would've opened the Magic Number Thread.

[Guest Edgy DC]

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	Net GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York Nine	42	23	.646	--	--	19-11	23-12	348	279	W8	9-1
Philadelphia	33	33	.500	9.5	9.5	16-19	17-14	328	331	L4	4-6
Atlanta	30	37	.448	13.0	16.5	14-14	16-23	332	350	L4	2-8
Washington	30	38	.441	13.5	18.0	13-18	17-20	306	332	L4	4-6
Florida	26	37	.413	15.0	24.0	12-17	14-20	290	307	W5	7-3

[Frayed Knot]

Florida suddenly only 2 games out of 3rd place with a nearly even RS/RA ratio.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Florida suddenly only 2 games out of 3rd place with a nearly even RS/RA ratio.

Doesn't look like the Fish will be the easy push over everyone thought they'd be.

Then again, maybe that was the Yankee Biased media making ready made excuses if their boy Giradi failed, as well as ready made praise if Giradi was able to pull of a 75-80 win year

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Adam Rubin, today in the Daily News:

]It would take a collapse of historic proportions for the Mets (42-23) not to reach the playoffs. Since the first World Series in 1903, only 12 other teams have held a 9-1/2-game lead or larger as play opened on June 16. None has failed to reach the postseason. Five - all hailing from New York - won the World Series: the '98, '53 and '39 Yankees, '86 Mets and '55 Dodgers.

[smg58]

Even if the Mets do stumble a bit, I really don't see who in the NL East can make a run at them. We've seen how good the Phillies are. Atlanta can play a little better than they've been doing, but I see no eveidence that they can play a lot better.

As for Florida, I figured they'd get better as the season wore on -- they have the second most total talent in the division. If they keep Cabrera and Willis, they'll be reasonably competitive the rest of the way.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gentlemen, here's to evil.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Since our last update, the Phillies have lost twice and the Mets have won once.

The magic number is 85.

[Elster88]

Oakland has won ten games in a row.

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		8-4	6-2	6-2	5-4	25-12
Phils	4-8		4-6	3-1	4-1	15-6
Nats	2-6	6-4		2-3	4-4	14-17
Fish	2-6	1-3	3-2		4-6	10-17
Braves	4-5	1-4	4-4	6-4		15-17

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	43	25	.632	--	20-13	23-12	362	293	W1	8-2
Philadelphia	34	35	.493	9.5	17-21	17-14	342	353	W1	2-8
D.C.	32	39	.451	12.5	15-19	17-20	325	350	W2	4-6
Florida	29	37	.439	13	15-17	14-20	305	311	W8	9-1
Atlanta	30	40	.429	14	14-17	16-23	343	369	L7	1-9

Unexpected and unheralded divisional storyline: The Florida Marlins of Miami/Dade County. Since the official May 21 low-water mark of 11-31 (following 7 straight losses to the craptastic Braves and surging D-Rays), they're a blazing 18-6, posting sweeps of the Braves and Blue Jays (aggregate score: 28-12) at home last week to extend an 8-game winning streak. A road sweep in the Rockies, series win in San Diego, and a home sweep of the hapless Cubs all have contributed to the streak. They've only dropped two series, in Flushing and at Alexander Graham Park, over the span where they pulled nearly even in RS/RA. We'll root for Bawlmer to filet the Fish like they did us, and for the Mystique and Aura to overwhelm 'em later this week.

Sundries
* NYM Pythagorean record: 40-28.
* Officially #1 in the NL in RS-RA difference, #2 in runs scored to the somewhat-surprising Dodgers, and #3 in runs allowed to the Pads and the Cards.
* The NL East is the run-scoringest division, on average, in the league. We trail all 3 AL divisions in this respect.

Series starting today
Cincinnati (Arroyo, Ramirez, Mays, Milton) at N.Y. Mets (Duque, Trax, Alay, Pedro) (4 games)
Washington (Armas, Hernandez, Hill) at Boston (Snyder, Wakefield, Lester)
MFY (Eunuch, Mussina, Wright) at Philadelphia (Myers, Lidle, Hamels)

Starting tomorrow
Florida (Willis, Nolasco, Olsen) at Baltimore (Cabrera, Bedard, Benson)
Toronto (Towers, Lilly, Burnett) at Atlanta (Sosa, Hudson, Ramirez)

Friday's
Washington (Patterson, Ortiz, Armas) at Baltimore (Lopez, Loewen, Cabrera)
Philadelphia (Madson, Myers, Lidle) at Boston (Beckett, Schilling, Wakefield)
Florida (Moehler, Johnson, Willis) at MFY (Chacon, Wang, Unit)
Mets (Glavine, Duque, Traxel) at Toronto (Halladay, Taubenheim, Towers)
Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson, Sosa) at Tampa Bay (Kazmir, McClung, Hendrickson)

[Willets Point]

This means we've got Soler, Martinez, Glavine for the Red Sox. I have tix for Games #1 & 3 so I miss Pedro but get to see Glavine who seems to start (and lose) every game I've attended the last 3 years.