Wire to Wire .500 seasons

[stevejrogers]

At 77-60 the Mets are 4 games away from clinching their 4th season of having a .500 or better record for the entire season, the other three:

1985 98-64
1998 88-74
2006 97-65

Naturally that would mean this would be the first time the Mets have done back-to-back wire-to-wire .500 seasons.

Also interesting to note is that this is should be the Mets third straight season of a .500 or better season, the other streaks in that regard, which actually encompass all of the Mets .500 or better seasons:

7 1984-1990
5 1969-1973
1997-2001
2 1975-1976

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't really care about wire-to-wire. (In the great scheme of things, who really cares that the 1986 Mets were 2-3 after five games?) Consecutive winning years, that's more important.

Edited September 3, 2007 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, and consecutive division titles will/would be really nice, and long overdue.

[Zvon]

Still, interesting tid-bits that I will drop on my bros next time we speak.

Thank you for the info/facts Steve

[G-Fafif]

="Yancy Street Gang"]Yes, and consecutive division titles will/would be really nice, and long overdue.

According to the fascinating Metaforian blog, the Mets have edged past 1,000 "game days" in first place for their history.

http://metaforian.blogspot.com/2007/08/o-happy-days.html

This doesn't count off days during which the Mets maintained their first place position (Metaforian followed the baseball-reference formula), so it's probably been over a thousand for a while by now.

Onward and upward, one hopes.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: I don't really care about wire-to-wire. (In the great scheme of things, who really cares that the 1986 Mets were 2-3 after five games?) Consecutive winning years, that's more important.

ITA, just an inneresting factoid to throw out there.

Yeah in the grand scheme of things, even the MFYs of 1998 weren't off to that flying of a start. All that matters is the totals at the end of the year.

Provided that an extra 11 wins are added to the win total come late October!