I Can't Get No Satisfaction?

[metsmarathon]

on august 19th, we had a 6.7% chance to make the playoffs.

then we lost degrom and matz.

and then we had a wild card game, in our home stadium, that went scoreless to the ninth.

you're goddamn right i'm satisfied with this season.

with everything we played without this season, we were fortunate to have finished above .500. hell, it would've been all too easy for this team to crumble and fade, but it... uh... battled. hard.

to be upset for not having more seems just a wee bit greedy.

yeah, at the start of the season, we were eyeing a return to the world series. but where we went from there, to where we ended up...! i'll fuckin' take it!

go cubs!

[Centerfield]

seawolf17 wrote: 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.

This. Exactly.

Hell, TJ is actually the better Rivera. We had Rene Rivera as our #1 catcher. So I jump into my Delorian and tell you guys in March that:

*Harvey will suck for 3 months, then be lost for the year. He will suck so bad he will lead the team in losses, even though he doesn't make it to the all-star break.
*We will also lose deGrom and Matz to season ending surgeries. Matz will fight a bone spur even when he is able to start.
*Syndergaard will pitch with a bone spur all season.
*Wheeler will never make it back
*Antonio Bastardo will suck. He will suck so bad that we will trade him mid-season for Jon Niese. Niese will suck, then join the rest of the rotation in suffering a season ending injury.
*Lucas Duda. Broken Back. Gone in May.
*David Wright. Broken neck. Gone in May.
*Neil Walker. Herniated disk. Gone in August.
*Asdrubal Cabrera will hurt his knee in spring training. The injury will linger all season. Even a DL stint in the middle of the year won't cure him completely.
*DL stints for Cespedes, Lagares, d'Arnaud, Flores and Jose Reyes. Oh yeah, we re-signed Jose Reyes. Flores will hit great after coming off the DL, but then we'll lose him in September to, say it with me, season ending injury.
*Conforto, after a great April, will suck and get demoted. He will never find his swing again in 2016.
*At the trade deadline, we will trade Dilson Herrera for Jay Bruce. Bruce will suck so bad they'll compare him to Jason Bay. In September, we will pinch hit Eric Campbell for him in a big spot.
*Eric Campbell will get 85 PA's. He will OPS .511.
*d'Arnaud will try 75 different batting stances. None of them will work.

You would have guessed we would lose 100 games.

[HahnSolo]

Fman99 wrote: Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams.

Don't worry, the networks' Cubs narratives will have you sick of them within a few innings of the start of game 1.

[Chad ochoseis]

Other than the fact that they beat the Mets yesterday, what's to hate about the Giants? I'll root for them over the Evil Dodgers, Eviler Cubs, and Evilest Nationals any day.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm with you! Go Giants!

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm not particularly satisfied for some reason but I'm sure that will improve the
next day or so. Of all the NL teams, I'll root for the Giants but ultimately will root
for an AL team come The World Series.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think I'm gonna support the Indians.

Rooting for the Cubs is cliche. And I can assure you Cubs fans don't want or need a bunch of sympathizing bandwagoners.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him.
What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again.

[Chad ochoseis]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I'm gonna support the Indians. Rooting for the Cubs is cliche. And I can assure you Cubs fans don't want or need a bunch of sympathizing bandwagoners.

As a Cleveland resident, I'm all in for the Tribe to win the WS now. It'll be tough - they've had more injuries in their starting rotation than any other team in the majors this year except for, um, you know. And their best catcher has turned into Rene Rivera without Rivera's offensive skill (talk about low bars). But I'm rooting for the Giants in the NL.

The Cubs are deserving. But they're still the Cubs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

d'Kong76 wrote: I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him. What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again.

Why the mad-on for Maddon?

Maybe this makes me a sadist, but I think it would be kind of hilarious watching the Cubs make it to the cusp of a WS championship, only to lose it to the Indians.

[Centerfield]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: I could never root for the current Cubs and Maddon. Fuck him. What would really give me some satisfaction is if they got swept again. Why the mad-on for Maddon? Go seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians".

Like so douchy. I'm all cool and chill and cerebral. Fucking annoying.

Give me Bobby Cox any day.

[G-Fafif]

I wanted, at minimum, to win last night and then not get swept by the Cubs, preferring to take the NLDS back to Wrigley so nobody who wasn't the Mets would be celebrating at Citi Field. Anything else would be a jar of gravy.

So much for that plan. I'm satisfied the Mets got as far as they did. It's gonna gnaw at me as I glimpse at the series ahead. Don't know how much I can watch knowing we were there, but now we're gone.

One of the strangest realizations came as it occurred to me that two years ago I was watching the Royals and Giants in the World Series, never dreaming that in the course of the next two postseasons, a) we'd be playing in both of them and the teams from 2014 would serve as our respective final obstacles in 2015 and 2016.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, the bright side is, now that the Royals and the Giants have both played their spoiler role, there won't be any remaining obstacles for 2017!

[Guest d'Kong76]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Why the mad-on for Maddon?

The way he quit his last job and was hired like an hour later for the up-and-
coming Cubs was pretty douchey. I mean, in real life I wouldn't judge someone
for bettering themselves employment wise but baseball's not real life?

Maybe I'm wrong, but fuck him anyways haha...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I tell ya who can go fuck themselves? The Dodgers, that's who.

Could have cleared a much easier path for us had they bothered to win only 1 of their goddamn games vs. the Giants last weekend.

I sure as hell don;t like the nationals but will tip my cap to them as they took a hellacious beating last year from the Mets, made an honest effort to fix the problems they thought they had, then proved over a long season they did. If they happen to beat the living shit out of the Dodgers in this series, boo hoo for the fucking Dodgers.

I feel about them like I feel about Milwaukee when they had a chance to all but eliminate Philadelphia one of those years we didn't make the playoffs (08 I think?). If they'd only beaten them once, everything would be different. I've hated them for 8 years because of that.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I tell ya who can go fuck themselves? The Dodgers, that's who. Could have cleared a much easier path for us had they bothered to win only 1 of their goddamn games vs. the Giants last weekend. I sure as hell don;t like the nationals but will tip my cap to them as they took a hellacious beating last year from the Mets, made an honest effort to fix the problems they thought they had, then proved over a long season they did. If they happen to beat the living shit out of the Dodgers in this series, boo hoo for the fucking Dodgers. I feel about them like I feel about Milwaukee when they had a chance to all but eliminate Philadelphia one of those years we didn't make the playoffs (08 I think?). If they'd only beaten them once, everything would be different. I've hated them for 8 years because of that.

The Brewers beat us out of the Wild Card in 2008, which was reason enough to resent them, but they were just doing their job in that case.

As for the Dodgers fucking themselves, I'd like to think Vin Scully would come out of retirement to announce that.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, the bright side is, now that the Royals and the Giants have both played their spoiler role, there won't be any remaining obstacles for 2017!

"Our evil job is done here."

[HahnSolo]

That was '08. They lost four in a row in Philly in September, right about when we started our fall off the cliff.

They of course recovered in time to beat us out for the WC.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Hope the Mets don't ever wear these jerseys anymore.

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Oh ... and I'm rooting for Murphy.

[MFS62]

Fman99 wrote: Wow I hate the Giants, Nats, and Dodgers all so much, I'd be hard pressed to root for any of those teams.

Same here.
Go Cubs!


Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

HahnSolo wrote: That was '08. They lost four in a row in Philly in September, right about when we started our fall off the cliff. They of course recovered in time to beat us out for the WC.

Thanks for the context. I knew the Phillies were involved, just had the results backasswards

[Frayed Knot]

I'm kind of in a fuck the Dodgers mode too, both on the end of this season and on just general principles.
And nothing against the Giants, except they've won three times in the last five years.
A winning season for the Nats would do a lot to help steal a little bit of attention towards baseball in that town now that the Redskins are into their third consecutive decade of sucking (and I won't be forced to listen to their announcers crow about it) ... although there's always that in-division thing
Which means I'm probably pulling for the Cubs, not in any weepy/jump on the bandwagon/break the curse way, but just as the best alternative.

[seawolf17]

Rangers > Jays > Indians > Giant Meteor > Cubs, I guess? > Giants > Sox > Dodgers > Nats

[Ceetar]

think I'm pulling for the Cubs, think it'll be fun to watch the best team dominate. Am really fine with any of the AL teams.

Between last night and the Chris Heston (chris right?) game I don't know that I can forgive the Giants. screw 'em.