I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

[Fman99]

How far do they need to go?

[Fman99]

I could have added a whole nother layer of answers, where they advance to a round, and play well, but lose, and maybe you say, well, I'm satisfied that they at least played hard and made it competitive in the LDS/LCS/WS round, but, hey, let's not get all complicated.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I picked the first item, but it's a very low level of satisfaction. Advancing to the NLDS will be much better.

[TransMonk]

I'm satisfied with them just playing tonight considering they were dead in the water six weeks ago. It was not what I expected at the beginning of the year, but much better than I expected on August 20.

That being said, I would love to see them advance to play the Cubs. I think these Metsies could give them a run for their money.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My attitude seems to be the same as last year's, once the division title was won. I'm happy to be where we are, but I still very much want more!

[A Boy Named Seo]

As long as we're alive, I want it all.

[Frayed Knot]

Getting the WC was nice and all, but the difference between advancing past tonight or not is bigger than any other and losing here would make it seem like you weren't really in the playoffs at all. Not complaining, that's how it should. I just don't want to be the one that goes home so 'Must Win WC' is my satisfaction level for right now.

Losing in a round past this one, while disappointing, would be less crushing especially given the relative seasons of the Mets and Cubs, and would at least give us another week of baseball to sink our teeth into.
Getting past the Cubs, on the other hand, would suddenly make me one greedy bastard.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm on the fence but took #2. On some level I feel 2016 was a successful season
given the odds in late August and of course the number of players the Mets had to
use all year. I didn't look, but they must have used about 50 players. But they're
here, and losing tonight would make it feel like not making the playoffs (which I
suppose that's what it really is) so I want to play the Cubs too. Losing to the Cubs
who had such a crazy year would still give some satisfaction. Waffles anyone?

Edited October 5, 2016 by Guest

[TransMonk]

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[Chad ochoseis]

It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. And it's more fun to watch a team that had so-so talent and crappy luck win 87 games than to watch talented teams like the 2007 and 2008 Mets underachieve with 88 and 89 wins. It's been a good season, and anything after today is gravy.

Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. And it's more fun to watch a team that had so-so talent and crappy luck win 87 games than to watch talented teams like the 2007 and 2008 Mets underachieve with 88 and 89 wins. It's been a good season, and anything after today is gravy. Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season.

I agree with all of this. I want them to win the WS as much as I did last year, but I had a CAHNfident expectation with the '15 team that I don't have with this bunch. These guys are just a slot machine that keeps spitting out coins. Can't believe they even won this many, but I still want 12 more.

[Edgy MD]

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[Guest themetfairy]

I'm satisfied. Which doesn't mean that I won't be pissed off as all Hell if they lose tonight. But considering the injuries and where they were in August, I'm thrilled that they made it to the postseason!

[Gwreck]

A successful Mets season is defined as making the postseason.

A team must either win the divison or win the wild card game for it to meet the definition of "making the postseason."

[Lefty Specialist]

Winning tonight and taking one game from the Cubs and I'll be very happy.

[Frayed Knot]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: Funny thing - since the Mets and Giants were both 87-75, we'd still be playing this game under the old single wild card playoff rules. But it would be regular season game 163 instead of post-season.

And I still pretty much treat this as Reg Season Game #163, the only difference now is that the top two teams in each league play it whether they wind up tied or not.
It's like we're in the playoffs but we're not yet in the big boy playoffs.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

as CAHNfident as i was last year it still took an unbelievable and afaiwc, completely unexpected Muffy performance to get us ahead. Anything can happen.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

It was a great run to get here despite everything that went on.

But I wouldn't feel good about buying one of those postseason caps yet.

Winning tonight would be tremendous.

[nymr83]

must win WS.

those are the expectations I had going into the year. injuries derailed that for awhile, but hey, we're here. lets do this.

with Matt Harvey limping out to pitch the 20th inning of game 7 - theres nobody else left - Willis Reed style!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Given all the injuries to the team has had to overcome just to get here, I am pretty satisfied with what they accomplished. If you had told me prior to the season, that the Mets would lose Harvey, Wright, and Duda for most of the season as well as losing Walker, Lagares, De Grom, and Matz for large chunks of the year I would have probably expected them to finish at or below .500 for the season. So, I am happy. That said, I want more now that we are in the post-season.

[Fman99]

I want to say that I'm satisfied but I can't, not yet. I really wanted to see them play the Cubbies.

[bmfc1]

Fman99 wrote: I want to say that I'm satisfied but I can't, not yet. I really wanted to see them play the Cubbies.

Me too... the Mets would have won that series.

[Lefty Specialist]

Cubs would have crushed them like a bug, which is what I hope they do to the Giants.

[seawolf17]

I'm satisfied. Could it have been better? Absolutely, but if you told us in April that TJ Rivera would be starting the last game of the season and our rotation included Gsellman and Lugo, we would have thought we were finishing in fourth place. So let's retool and do it again next year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think I have to root for the Giants to win the pennant now.

Can't root for the Cubs. I'd hate to see their long losing tradition end. Dodgers have Utley. Nationals are a division rival.

The Giants seemed like well-mannered opponents. I have no reason to root against them.

[TransMonk]

I'd rather have won and it was a tough way to lose, but I'm satisfied, too.

While the stakes were not as high as October baseball, I feel like Mets fans were treated to a few solid weeks of entertaining and meaningful baseball in September of 2015.

[Frayed Knot]

The pressure in these next two series will definitely fall more on the Nats & the Cubs.

The Nats have been a good to very good team and often a betting favorite for five seasons now including three 95+ win seasons, but have won a total of just 3 post-season games over that time so far and have not yet advanced a single round.
Now they've managed to update their roster and farm system on the fly during this time and so aren't necessarily looking at a rapidly closing window or anything, but a loss to the Dodgers here and another season of going one-and-out would really start to darken the 'LOSER' stamp on their collective foreheads. If they survive the Dodgers and face the Cubs then they'd be the ones playing with house money, but not here in Round 1. Losing Strasburg and Ramos so late in the year is definitely going to hurt.

The Cubs, by virtue of having been the best team nearly wire to wire this season -- plus all that history shit you may have heard of -- have to at least make it to the WS without this season feeling like a failure and reviving all those 'Same-old-Shit' feelings. That will at least bust the 71 year curse even if not the 108 year old one.
Going forward, their hitting looks in good shape but their pitching less so and I remember chastising those Met fans who justified feeling OK about losing to the Cards in 2006 with the idea that that year was merely a step up on the escalator which was only going to travel upward for as many season as the eye could see.

Edited October 6, 2016 by Guest

[HahnSolo]

Lot of pressure on the Dodgers too. They keep getting to the postseason and falling short.

[Frayed Knot]

HahnSolo wrote: Lot of pressure on the Dodgers too. They keep getting to the postseason and falling short.

Yeah, between all that spending and this being the fourth year in a row for them in the post-season, they can't afford to blow too many - although at least they won a round recently (although just one).
I almost think there's maybe more pressure specifically on Kershaw who's been positively ... ordinary in October in the same way that Greg Maddux and to some degree Peyton Manning are always going to have those "yeah ... but!" comments tacked onto their HoF careers.

[Fman99]

Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams.