SHaM Poll

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think we're gonna need at least 45, but what's realistic?

[Guest Edgy DC]

45-49, many wins by a lot of runs.

National League won't know how to respond.

[metirish]

I'm feeling 50 plus wins here folks.

[TransMonk]

I think we're going to need more than 45, but went with 40 as realistic.

Not saying they can't rip it up in the 2nd half with a slightly more favorabe schedule and the All Stars healing. I think we're being set up for a late August/early September surge where they go on a 15 out of 19 tear to get within a couple games of the division...and then falter over the last two weeks.

Hopefully, it's fun to watch. It would be far more enjoyabe to watch them exceed expectations in the second half than it was to watch them fall short of expectations in the first half.

[nymr83]

I'm calling a 30-45 record the rest of the way.
Delgado and Beltran don't get back until MID-august and neither is as productive as they had been last year or the beginning of this year. Reyes comes back Aug. 1st but gets shut down September 10th when the Mets are finally ready to concede that they are dead.
Maine makes it back for a few starts in late August but also gets shut down.
The bright spot of the second half turns out to be Brad Holt, called up to make 5 starts in September where he looks like gold.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted 39, and think I was being optimistic.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm a complete tard fanboy. I ask you all to be realistic but can't bring myself to vote for anything less than the 45 I think they need.

[Fman99]

My vote is in that 30-34 range. They just look so god awful at the plate recently that I don't see how they put up the runs they'd need to win 40+.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

33-42. Niese and Pagan fuel a brief (think 10-2) run in early August, buoyed by a present-if-not-productive JoseJoseJoseJose. Then the bottom falls out again with a homer drought that puts last week to shame.

5 out of 6 against Atlanta and Florida in late September help seal the division for the Phucks down I-95.

[dgwphotography]

I think they'll go 50-25 the rest of the way, and it won't be enough for the division, because the Phillies are due to get hot, too.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Too many holes in the line up and rotation due to injuries. Likely still a great deal of baseball to play with most of the holes still unplugged. The Mets can form a better heart of the order with the players on the DL than they can with the players on the active roster. I think their good for 39 wins.

[Vic Sage]

you guys haven't read the script... they'll win 44, and miss the post-season by 1 game. Otherwise, we'll have been insufficently tortured.

[Guest holychicken]

="Vic Sage":1mbbgi74]you guys haven't read the script... they'll win 44, and miss the post-season by 1 game. Otherwise, we'll have been insufficently tortured.[/quote:1mbbgi74] Wat? I think the Castillo dropped pop-up is "sufficient torture" for any one season and that doesn't even begin to describe what we have been through this year. You must think Mets fans are worse than Osama if you believe we should be subjected to significantly more torture. I voted 39. Normally, I am a fanboi and bump these kinds of numbers up. However, morale is pretty low for me right now, so my pessimism is probably driving the number down.

TransMonk Jul 16 2009 09:10 AM

Schedule until we see PHI again on 8/21: 4 @ ATL (43-45) 3 @ WAS (26-61) 3 @ HOU (44-44) 4 vs COL (47-41) 4 vs ARI (38-51) 2 vs STL (49-42) 4 @ SD (36-52) 3 @ ARI (38-51) 4 vs SF (49-39) 3 vs ATL (43-45) That's 14 games vs. teams with worse records than the Mets plus 7 games vs. Atlanta who have as many losses as the Mets do. All of the games against teams with a record above .500 are at home. Philly's schedule isn't much harder, but they do have 13 games against the Marlins and Cubs in addition to seeing the Giants and Rockies like we do. Treading water will still be difficult with the amount of bodies missing, but the schedule looks about as favorable as it can get over the next 34 games. If the Mets manage to stay within 6 or 7 games by the time they face Philly next, then I can get into having faith that they can make things interesting. That should also be about the time that we should have some of these injured players back and hopefully producing. Beating the snot out of Atlanta would also be a priority...starting tonight!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 16 2009 09:32 AM

Yup, tonight is officially a Big Game� for us. Lowe vs. Ollie in the battle of you-shoulda-signed-em, and Church v. Francoeur in Round 1 of the RF Challenge Cup, and Mets v. Braves in the Battle for 3rd Place. PS -- Church may sit vs the lefty Ollie since the Braves intend to platoon him & Diaz.

[TransMonk]

Schedule until we see PHI again on 8/21:

4 @ ATL (43-45)
3 @ WAS (26-61)
3 @ HOU (44-44)
4 vs COL (47-41)
4 vs ARI (38-51)
2 vs STL (49-42)
4 @ SD (36-52)
3 @ ARI (38-51)
4 vs SF (49-39)
3 vs ATL (43-45)

That's 14 games vs. teams with worse records than the Mets plus 7 games vs. Atlanta who have as many losses as the Mets do. All of the games against teams with a record above .500 are at home.

Philly's schedule isn't much harder, but they do have 13 games against the Marlins and Cubs in addition to seeing the Giants and Rockies like we do.

Treading water will still be difficult with the amount of bodies missing, but the schedule looks about as favorable as it can get over the next 34 games. If the Mets manage to stay within 6 or 7 games by the time they face Philly next, then I can get into having faith that they can make things interesting. That should also be about the time that we should have some of these injured players back and hopefully producing.

Beating the snot out of Atlanta would also be a priority...starting tonight!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yup, tonight is officially a Big Game� for us.

Lowe vs. Ollie in the battle of you-shoulda-signed-em, and Church v. Francoeur in Round 1 of the RF Challenge Cup, and Mets v. Braves in the Battle for 3rd Place.

PS -- Church may sit vs the lefty Ollie since the Braves intend to platoon him & Diaz.