NL East Standings

[Elster88]

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	NGB
Philadelphia	42	35	.545	-	-
Florida	40	35	.533	1	1
New York	37	37	.500	3.5	6
Atlanta	38	39	.494	4	7.5
Washington	30	47	.390	12	39.5

[Gwreck]

It's been decidedly convenient that Philly has decided to to lose 5 in a row.

[Willets Point]

It's obvious from those standings that the season is o-v-a. Philadelphia is running away with it. The pathetic Mets who constantly give up or don't even try to play and certainly don't have any HEARD have no chance of overcoming 3.5 games with 3.5 months to play.

[Elster88]

I haven't heard optimism out of you in a long time. I like it.

[Guest cooby]

Willets Point wrote: It's obvious from those standings that the season is o-v-a. Philadelphia is running away with. The pathetic Mets who constantly give up or don't even try to play and certainly don't have any HEARD have no chance of overcoming 3.5 games with 3.5 months to play.

What is HEARD? I need to stop in more often.

[Willets Point]

That's HEART.

Damn. A fine parody of the reactionary alarmists (or is it alarmist reactionaries?) ruined by a typo.

[soupcan]

WTF is 'NGB'? Net Games Back? What does that mean and how is it calculated?

[Guest AG/DC]

Actually something I came up with.

If you're in third, five games out of first and three out of second, you're eight net games back. I think it's a better indicator of a team's actual position. A team five games back in second is in much better shape than a team five games back in fourth.

As soon as you pass a team in the standings, they stop being your enemy and become your ally.

[soupcan]

Ah. So its more a measure of how many teams are in front of you.

Not bad.

[Guest cooby]

I'm sorry Willets...I honestly thought it meant something and I just didn't know what.

[Guest AG/DC]

And Colorado comes back from 5-4 in the bottom of the eleventh to beat Florida 6-5.

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	NGB
Philadelphia	47	39	.547	-	-
Florida	44	41	.518	2.5	2.5
New York	42	43	.494	4.5	6.5
Atlanta	40	46	.465	7.0	14.0
Washington	34	53	.391	13.5	40.0

[Elster88]

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	NGB
Philadelphia	48	43	.527	-	-
New York	46	44	.511	1.5	1.5
Florida	46	44	.511	1.5	1.5
Atlanta	43	48	.473	4	9
Washington	34	57	.374	14	49

[soupcan]

Made up 5 games in 6 days.

Yowzer.

[seawolf17]

Damn, that's pretty. I honestly didn't think the Mets would sniff first place this season.

[Centerfield]

Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

="Centerfield"] Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

coffee cleanup in Luncbucket's cubie

[soupcan]

Of course Mr. Wolf. We meant no disrespect...

[Guest attgig]

I'm worried it's Church that makes us a .500+ team. without church, we're sub 500.

or at least that's been the correlation so far.

[metirish]

In the two weeks I was on holiday I saw only a few innings of Mets baseball , the opening Monday night in St. Louis was an espn game , looks like things are shaping up or are the Phillies gone bad?

[TransMonk]

Philly is 9-16 since June 10th while the Mets are 16-11...so a little of both.

Mets have been mashing so far in July going 6-2 with 102 hits and 57 runs in those 8 games.

[Frayed Knot]

Funny part about Philly is that (aside from the late innings Monday night) it's their offense that has disappeared.
They got shutout again last night.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets, at the moment, are only three games behind Milwaukee in the Wild Card race.

I know the conventional wisdom is that the NL Card will come out of the Central, but it won't necessarily happen that way. The Wild Card is a possible alternative path to the playoffs for the Mets.

Winning the division would certainly be more satisfying, though. Especially if it keeps Philadelphia out of the postseason.

[Guest AG/DC]

Teams with alternative paths to the playoffs don't grow beards in September, show up at the park at 10:30 AM for night games, and bear down with ferocity.

Goals are:

1) Catch Phillie
2) Pass Phillie
3) Run away

Make the Wild Card a moot point. Fine anybody who mentions it. Serious.

[nymr83]

worry about the WC if the division gets out of reach, theres no sense looking at plan B when plan A is still looking good

[Elster88]

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	NGB
Philadelphia	52	44	.542	-	-
New York	51	44	.537	0.5	0.5
Florida	50	45	.526	1.5	2.5
Atlanta	45	50	.474	6.5	17.5
Washington	36	60	.375	16.0	55.5

[Elster88]

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	NGB
New York	52	44	.542	-	-
Philadelphia	52	44	.542	-	-
Florida	50	45	.526	1.5	3.0
Atlanta	45	50	.474	6.5	18.0
Washington	36	60	.375	16.0	56.0

[Centerfield]

This current winning streak, though one short of tying for the record, ties a record for the longest winning streak in terms of calendar days (thanks to the All-Star Break). It has stretched over 13 days, just like the Mets streak of 11 straight from May 28, 1969 to June 10, 1969. I forget how that team finished, but I think they had a pretty good year.

If they win tonight, we will have gone a full two weeks without experiencing a Met loss.

[Guest AG/DC]

If only Wagner and Wright could say the same.

Not that I'm greedy.

[Centerfield]

If we get to the point where the outcome of Tuesday's game is relevant to us, it will already have been a pretty good season.

[Frayed Knot]

Marlins have one leftover game with the Braves tonight while the Phils & Mets rest before their 3-game matchup.
A Fish win tonight would make it an exact three-way tie for NLEast supremacy.