...And Whoever's Playing the Nationals

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm going to bed now. I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night to check the final score.

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm going to bed now. I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night to check the final score.

How can you leave? You might be the nights good luck charm! Uh-oh. Now it's all on me.

[Centerfield]

I got your back Zvon. Let's go St. Louis. Best fans in America.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I'm sorry, but I just can't root for the Cardinals.

[Centerfield]

First two runners on. Someone go wake up Ben Grimm.

[Zvon]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm sorry, but I just can't root for the Cardinals.

See, I don't understand this. Of course you can. The Mets need the Cards to beat the Nats. It's as simple as that. Where are your priorities?

[Zvon]

2-2, 2 out in the 9th. K!

Thank you Cards. I wasn't really, like, rooting rooting. I just said yay a few times to myself.

[dinosaur jesus]

Oh man. If I'm a Nats fan, which God forbid, this is the most demoralizing loss of the year. Take the lead in the seventh, and give it right back and then some with five two-out runs, get two on, nobody out with Harper up, and then a wild pitch comes right back to Molina and one of the runners is thrown out. And that was pretty much it. Metsie, Metsie, Metsie!

[Ceetar]

Zvon wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm sorry, but I just can't root for the Cardinals. See, I don't understand this. Of course you can. The Mets need the Cards to beat the Nats. It's as simple as that. Where are your priorities?

the best part about the 5.5 (now 6.5) lead is that the Mets don't actually NEED the Cards to beat the Nats.

[G-Fafif]

The Cardinals are OTOFT until further notice. Or Thursday.

And if you've learned to love the Cardinals for their 8-5 heartbreaking of the Nationals, you'll truly embrace the Atlanta Braves all weekend long!

[Lefty Specialist]

Really. These are the times when we all have to suck it up and root for the Cardinals.

(Well, except for Yadier F. Molina. I mean, I can only go so far.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I have no trouble at all rooting for the Cardinals against the Nationals.

I'd even root for the Yankees if a win on their part would benefit the Mets. Of course, rooting for the Yankees would be accompanied by the taste of bile in my mouth, but not so for the Cardinals. They're just another out-of-town team.

[MFS62]

I'm rooting for alien abduction.

Later

[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I have no trouble at all rooting for the Cardinals against the Nationals. I'd even root for the Yankees if a win on their part would benefit the Mets. Of course, rooting for the Yankees would be accompanied by the taste of bile in my mouth, but not so for the Cardinals. They're just another out-of-town team.

Sorry about barging into your house last night to wake you up. I hope that your wife will someday understand.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope so too! But I do understand that it was necessary.

[G-Fafif]

After the legendary penultimate series of 1985 in St. Louis, the Mets' fading hopes rested on the Chicago Cubs rising from the dead for 48 hours and beating the Cardinals (while the Mets presumably took it to Montreal). I hated the Cubs from 1984. I hated the Cubs from 1969 and 1970 and pretty much every year. But until it was no longer useful, I rooted for the Cubs. It wasn't very useful, but this was and is Do What Ya Gotta Do time.

The Mets are taking care of their end. Would be lacking in due diligence to not help them out with whatever negative energy we can send the Nationals' way.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Absolutely. The Mets need to keep the magic number (and the NHOP!) dropping to keep their lead as collapse-resistant as possible. Every Washington loss is just as important as every Mets win.

[TransMonk]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This week my friends are the Cards and Braves.

The present supersedes any history.

[Centerfield]

If Roger Clemens were pitching for the Cardinals with John Rocker warming up in the pen, I'd still root for the Cardinals tonight.

With Suzyn Waldman commentating:

"OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS, OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS, GREG IS ROOTING FOR THE CARDINALS!"

[Lefty Specialist]

'Collapse-resistant lead'.

I don't know where that line is, short of a magic number of zero.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A magic number of zero is collapse-proof. Collapse-resistant is a place where collapses are unlikely, but still possible. (Like 2007.)

[Lefty Specialist]

OK, then a magic number of 1. Tom Glavine still haunts my dreams.

[G-Fafif]

F*ck T#m Gl@v!ne.

F*ck September 13 to September 30, 2007.

Long live right f*cking now and (provisionally, hopefully, confidently) whatever comes next (unless it f*cks us over, in which case, f*ck that).

(But it's not gonna.)

[Lefty Specialist]

I just want them to be 4 ahead when the Nats come to town that final weekend.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes. Definitely. We'll all breathe a lot easier if those games are meaningless. (At least as far as the division title goes. Home field advantage in the playoffs is important but not nail-bitingly important.)

[Centerfield]

Bottom 8, first 2 on for St. Louis. Down 5-3 trying to rally.

[Guest themetfairy]

Now tied 5-5 with two outs in the bottom of the 8th.

[Centerfield]

Double play, but the Cards tie it. Go ahead run on 3rd, 2 outs.

[Centerfield]

Jhonny Peralta up. The hope is that he can hit well enough to be a poor man's Wilmer Flores.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Zvon wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm sorry, but I just can't root for the Cardinals. See, I don't understand this. Of course you can. The Mets need the Cards to beat the Nats. It's as simple as that. Where are your priorities?

The Cardinals are evil and they always fucking win and nothing good comes of rooting for them. I have nothing against the Nats other than they're in the same division. I have a deep-seated loathing for the Cardinals.