Edgy MD wrote: Remember how the Mets had stockpiled all that talent, but it was nothing compared to Houston's? Houston is out of it. Remember that team that beat the Mets in the World Series last year, despite trailing in each game, and actually would have lost had the games ended at a more fortuitous time? Kansas City? They're out of it, too. Remember that team, entitled by God-given right to sip form the cup of victory and dominate the civic and baseball culture? They are the Yankees, and they are eliminated. Rivals of the last 20 years, Atlanta and Philadelphia? Going home. Miami upstarts who seemed to be stealing the Mets' bacon midseason? Done like the seventh son. Talent-laden hopefuls like the White Sox, the Angels, the Pirates, each with MVP talented superstars tucked in their back pockets? They're going home. But the Mets? For the second straight year, they live to play on. Sheer poetry. Later