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seawolf17 wrote: Not for nothing I am also not for nothing if we're talking about the Mets scoring.

Terry in the postgame paid respect and homage to the occasion last night but reading not too deep between the lines, he basically said, "enough of this." I don't know if they'll win, but I think they'll be, per Keith, on point.

Fman99 wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets fans who first entered High School this school season most likely never saw the Mets play a game live at Shea Stadium. For them, 1990's players, like Todd Hundley and Butch Huskey are part of the ancient history that occurred before they were even born. Time is flying. We made sure Fboy got in a game at Shea, age 3, so that he could someday be the oldest living Met fan to have attended a game at Shea. Not just any game, either. George Vecsey schlepped his infant daughter (who grew up to be a sportswriter herself) to the Polo Grounds in 1963 so she could say she'd been there.

If a team chasing yours loses, you benefit.

Seven of twenty-five members of the roster that broke camp have remained active through all 157 games of this season to date: Familia (longest current uninterrupted active streak, dating to return from DL in Sept. '13) Granderson (active every game of his three-season tenure) Colon (whose only time missed was for bereavement leave in August '14) Syndergaard (active since his promotion in May '15) Reed (active from the end of August '15 onward) Blevins (pretty impressive considering how he disappeared in 2015) De Aza (who must've been good at dodgeball, given how he's often faded into the background) Robles missed the first two games serving a leftover 2015 suspension. DeGrom took family medical emergency leave for a spell in April. Everybody else was either demoted, disabled or dispatched (Bastardo) at some point. Neil Walker was the last to join the DL parade, going directly to the 60-day on September 6. Given that deGrom has had surgery, yet is still rattling around the expanded active roster, the regular-season personnel paperwork is probably done shuffling (barring calamity or five-game acquisition unseen).

Centerfield wrote: This math is too hard for me. Did our chances of clinching a wild card slot (any slot) increase despite the loss? Yes, because the Cardinals lost. Any combination of Met wins and Cardinal losses adding to 5 means we're in. That's commonly called a magic number, of course, but somehow that doesn't apropos of what the Mets are doing. A friend refers to it as the Wild Number.

The Braves were in the process of fending off the Phillies when they lost the game of 9/21/01. Philadelphia drew to within a half-game of them that night, while the Mets pulled to within 4 1/2. They were tied with Philly for the division lead as late as the succeeding Monday, 9/24, before winning their seventh consecutive N.L. East title by two games. I don't know if their years-later comments about it being OK the Mets won for New York that night were rooted in perspective or they truly felt that way when it happened. 2001 wasn't a runaway for them by any means. They needed the game of September 21. They didn't get it. They survived. I wasn't the least bit happy the Mets lost their game last night. I'm glad the Marlins won their game. though. Too bad it had to be the same game. But the Mets can survive, too. In the meantime, thank you, Reds.

In Mets "thank you, fans" video, TC is wearing his Spring Training jersey. Kelly Johnson's alone in wearing the blue alternate top. Jon Niese is in a t-shirt and appears happy. I may be going out on a limb, but I'm guessing they may have shot those parts many months -- as many as 12 -- ago. Reyes specifically expresses joy over being back in NY. Familia closes it out...but David puts a capper on it, with his unbiased assessment re Mets fans and their status versus other of the world's fans. He got the biggest cheer yesterday. 149K views · 2.1K shares | You're always there every pitch of every... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM You're always there every pitch of every game. Thank you #Mets fans for an amazin' 2016 regular season at Citi Field. #LGM

seawolf17 wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I've been wondering about that FERNANDEZ 16 jersey that was hanging in the Mets dugout. I read that they're bringing it with them to Miami. I think they should leave it there, donate it to the Marlins museum, if they have one, or just to the organization in general if they don't have a museum yet. If they don't do that, sooner or later we may find out that they're selling it at auction, which would, of course, be crass and tasteless. Which is why I'm afraid they might do it. Jeff's idea, allegedly. Which was his idea -- making the jersey, or selling it? (Or both?) Just the jersey (according to Cespedes). We'll see about Authentic Game-Hung Merchandise.

Edgy MD wrote: Wright is perhaps even more out of sight, but has not been as removed from the psyche of Mets fans or their spending habits, I imagine. Part of that is Wright's longer tenure, to be sure. But I imagine that, taking away each of their ready ability to perform, Harvey doesn't leave you as much left to hang your hat on. A lot of the Harvey stuff is of the "this guy is huge, let's print up more!" variety. Not HARVEY 33 as much as "Happy Harvey Day!" and ancillary gear. Somewhere a warehouse stocked to the gills with Kaz Matsui Celebriducks bursts at its seams.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I've been wondering about that FERNANDEZ 16 jersey that was hanging in the Mets dugout. I read that they're bringing it with them to Miami. I think they should leave it there, donate it to the Marlins museum, if they have one, or just to the organization in general if they don't have a museum yet. If they don't do that, sooner or later we may find out that they're selling it at auction, which would, of course, be crass and tasteless. Which is why I'm afraid they might do it. Jeff's idea, allegedly.

I really liked Fernandez. He was my favorite active baseball player, non-Mets division. I don't always have a favorite non-Mets active that I follow closely. Willie Stargell, when I was first discovering baseball. Rickey Henderson as a teen-ager and young adult. And Fernandez. And I think that's it. I followed Fernandez's career closer than any other non-Met and that's saying something because I don't do fantasy baseball. I know that as a Mets fan, I was supposed to hope that the Mets missed him whenever they played the Marlins being how dominant Fernandez was, but I rooted for the opposite -- that the Mets would face Fernandez so that I would get to see him in action. I've been to six Marlins games over the past three seasons yet never got to see Fernandez pitch live. Seeing him pitch live was on my short list of baseball things to do. This is a terrible tragedy and I still can't get over the idea that he's dead and gone forever. Eight starts against the Mets, four at Citi Field. I got to one of them, versus Harvey, June 8, 2013. It went 20 innings. Neither phenom earned a decision. Three of his eight starts versus the Mets had Harvey on the mound. That was going to be one of the great rivalries. The 20-inning game spoke well for both of them (1 run given up by each of them over 6 for JF, 7 for MH), but the last time they met, on June 5 of this year in Miami, was the truly sublime matchup. Matt seemed to be coming out of his morass and Jose was surely on top of his game: 4 hits, no walks, 14 K's. He won the duel, 1-0. When I visited the team store after yesterday's game, the amount of unsold Matt Harvey merchandise was staggering. Out of sight, out of favor, I guess. As it happened, I was wearing the Mets shirt I plucked out of my drawer in the morning: HARVEY 33, which seemed too on the nose to be random in light of what I'd learned a little while before. It's the same shirt I wore to that 20-inning game.

Centerfield wrote: Also, I am having trouble coming to grips with the fact that despite what happened, a small part of me is glad they are not facing Fernandez. I know it's wrong and I feel like a total dickhead over it. But no matter how guilty I feel about it, the feeling is still there. That was my very first thought when I learned of this news. It was still in unconfirmed Twitter report form, so I somehow didn't buy it. Therefore, my thinking was "he's not dead, but he won't face us," which didn't exactly mesh. A cake and eat it too desire, I suppose. Once it sunk in, I veered to sorrow and shame. Later I admitted my thinking to good friends of the Met persuasion. Each said, in essence, "yeah, me, too."

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Jeez, I almost cried a little. Me too, except for the almost. I've stood for dozens of moments of silences at ballparks, I suppose. There's usually enough time between the passing of whoever is being honored and the gesture of respect so that I find myself given over to reflection or appreciation. This news was four hours old yesterday. I imagine a measurable slice of the crowd was just learning of his passing from Alex Anthony.

Between the number of road games that remain -- six -- and the TBD status of the Mets' season, this looms as the least conclusive Home Closer in club history. The last home game of 1998 had the Mets in this kind of flux, but there were only three (horrible) games left once they departed Shea. Four games remained at Wrigley in 1973. They needed the final game in 1999 to determine whether they'd have one the next night in Cincinnati. 2007 and 2008 we know too well, but we were going to get our answer ASAP. Here it's both must-win and plenty of time to go.

Jose Reyes – 3B Asdrubal Cabrera – SS Yoenis Cespedes – LF Curtis Granderson – CF Kelly Johnson – 2B Michael Conforto – RF Lucas Duda – 1B Travis d’Arnaud – C Sean Gilmartin – LHP

The Wild Card-leading Mets (+1 over SFG, +1 1/2 over STL) attempt to inch a wee bit closer to a playoff berth by sending three pitchers to the mound tonight, Sean, Gil and Martin...what's their last names? Correction: It's Sean Gilmartin, their No. 18 starter, though at this point, the depth chart is good for cleaning Dan Warthen's glasses. And it's likely we'll see somewhere between three and eighteen pitchers anyway. Sean a little love on tonight's emergency arm. May it be electric, light up the radar gun and orchestrate a win over Alec Asher. [youtube:2eaeelg2]GJuTIxwQw0k[/youtube:2eaeelg2]

Celebrate everything while it's fresh. Everyday life, let alone a dreary losing record, affords ample opportunity to not pour champagne. Earning your way into the Almost Nobody Else is Playing portion of the schedule is an accomplishment. It would suck (should we make it that far) to go down in the WC game, but it will be wonderful to have clinched a spot there. One miracle at a time. To each one's own on merch, but I have something (besides mental scars and lingering regrets) to commemorate every postseason appearance by. I'm a glass half-won fan. Glad the Nationals did not clinch last night. Their earliest possible dogpile will come no sooner than the same juncture we had ours last year, penultimate Saturday.

Thor scratched Saturday because of strep throat. Really. Gilmartin to start.

Somebody else's Phillies... Hernandez 2B Quinn RF Herrera CF Franco 3B Howard 1B Rupp C Galvis SS Asche LF Hellickson P

Your Metsies... Reyes 3B Cabrera SS Cespedes LF Granderson CF Johnson 2B Conforto RF Duda 1B d'Arnaud C Ynoa P

His contract includes a club option. Not a free agent if the Mets want him back.

Eleven innings played. Twenty-seven home players used. Two-hundred fourteen home pitches thrown. Two-hundred sixty-three minutes consumed. Two arms raised skyward. One-hundred eighty emotional degrees traversed. And, in the final scene, the Three Amigos riding off into the sunrise, having rescued their team’s season yet again. Their reward as midnight approached was that justice had been done. Jose Reyes. Asdrubal Cabrera. Yoenis Cespedes. Their night. Their month. Their year. Our Amazin’ good fortune. Thursday they were aided and abetted here and there by a handful of their 24 accomplices, but when you got right down to it, it was they who lassoed a loss and giddy-upped it over and over until it galloped across home plate a glorious win. The Mets reached base via hit, walk or error seventeen times. Bundled at the top of the order — a veritable penthouse suite crowning an otherwise ordinary off-ramp motel — they accounted for eleven of those appearances. They scored four and drove in seven of the nine Met runs, making almost all the difference in what became a 9-8 victory that obscured the frustration and heartbreak that defined the two previous evenings at Citi Field and made a person overlook everything that seemed to be going irredeemably wrong in those innings that they could not personally repair. The Mets used 27 players? Who uses 27 players? No basket of deployables is that deep, yet Terry Collins kept dipping in until he became the first manager in the 55-year history of the franchise to deploy one Met for every out required in a normal nine-inning affair. Natch, this wasn’t a normal night, nor could it be confined to nine innings. This team plays a Game of the Year about once a week.

After a game like Thursday's, how could you not want the Mets to keep it comin', love? [youtube:271xtnzy]mABuS9eSWnQ[/youtube:271xtnzy] Hellickson for them. Ynoa for us. Don't stop it now.

Mets are 1-0 in dramatic must-win September extra-inning thrillers started by Eric Campbell.