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More exuberance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Party at cooby's!!!

Daniel Murphy MVP

HOLY FUCKING CRAP. I LOVE THE METS. I LOVE BASEBALL. I LOVE CAL FUCKING RIPKEN.

1 down.

I can't watch this. This game is going to kill me.

This is another drawback to bringing in Familia early.

OMG TERRY ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU PULLING NOAH!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Terry better not be pulling Syndegaard here.

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FUCK YOU JUSTIN TURNER. YOU CAN EAT MY ASSHOLE.

Get Matz up and ready for Gonzalez Terry.

Come on Noah. Time to sack up.

Ok Mets. Greinke and Kershaw are no longer factors. WIN THIS FUCKING GAME.

Greinke out of the game!!!

Fucking Utley.

Next four innings decide this series. One inning closer to neutralizing Greinke. Ok. Now let's score 20.

Come on Jacob. Gut us out one more inning. We are going to light up Greinke next inning.

Five innings will decide this series. Way to hang in there Jacob.

Double play. Make them pay for all the LOB.

Looking bad.

I don't follow your logic. Perhaps I should clarify my position on this. Legal Slide vs. Illegal Slide This is in the rule books. You look at the runner's intent. My biggest complaint about the call was that there were many judgment calls that could have gone the Mets way (3 different judgments in one play) and all of them went the Dodgers' way (and each subsequent one was more egregious than the prior one). When you look at the replay, it is evident that Utley went for Tejada and not the base. By the books, though it is rarely called, this is interference. Therefore, it's illegal. Dirty vs. Clean There is no such rule here. Just a subjective assessment. In my opinion, it was a dirty slide. He not only aimed at Tejada, but came in high and did not slide before hitting him. I don't believe he meant to hurt him. I think he had not a care in the world whether he did or not. Illustrated below: Clean and Legal: Runner makes a good faith attempt to slide into second. He slides before hitting the base, but makes no effort to get out of the way of the play and makes contact with the fielder, thus disrupting the double play. Clean and Illegal: Runner aims at the fielder (and not the base), but knowing the fielder can get hurt, slides and hits ground first minimizing the risk of injury on the fielder. Dirty and Legal: Runner aims toward the base, but either comes in high, or spikes up, or otherwise tailors his slide to increase the risk of injury to the fielder. Dirty and Illegal (Utley Slide): Runner aims at the fielder with a complete disregard for the base. Runner slides late, slides high, and drives all of his force into the fielder, thereby increasing the risk of injury. I'm pissed at the umps for missing that it was illegal (then ruling that the neighborhood play was not in effect, then on top of that awarding Utley the base). I'm pissed at Utley for sliding dirty. And I'm pissed at Collins for not losing his mind over this while it was happening.

Game day. I'm nervous as all fuck. Tons of thoughts going through my mind and as much as I try, I can't really make sense of anything. Greinke was the best pitcher in baseball this year. As you saw with Kershaw the other night, if he's on, the other team can be shit out of luck. We are going to fucking lose. But wait, we have our own ace going tonight. And though you give the edge to Greinke, deGrom can be followed by Syndegaard, Matz, Harvey and Familia. The Mets can work to remove Greinke from the game and attack the bullpen. There is no relief in sight for the Dodgers lineup. We are going to fucking win! But the Dodgers are tough at home. Gonzalez has been getting hot. Turner has been hot all series long. They are dangerous up and down their lineup. One mistake can be fatal with Greinke on the mound. We are going to fucking lose. But our lineup is better. And we have our A lineup out there for only the second time this series. Given the choice of facing a lefty ace, or a righty ace, I pick the righty every time. Plus our guys have had great at bats against his slider. We are going to fucking win. If they lose, I am going to be pissed off about the blown call in Game 2 all winter long. This can't happen. We was fucking robbed! That's nonsense. Even after the call, Reed had a chance to get out of the inning tied. And since then, the Mets have had 2 chances to close out that series. Blaming one play three games ago is excuse making at its best. Get over it. That's baseball. Wait what? Fuck that. We was fucking robbed! It's ok if we don't win it all this year. This is the first step. We have a great base. Aces up and down the staff. We have a great lineup with some good young hitters. If we lose Cespedes, Sandy will find a way to put another competitive team out there. This team is committed to winning. We are seeing the beginning of a glorious time in Mets history. It's all good. But man, if they can get past tonight, I like our chances against anyone, and that includes Toronto. The Mets haven't put this good a team together since 1988. And it took a perfect storm of moves down the stretch to make this happen. They won't be as good next year, even if they re-sign Cespedes. We likely lose Murphy, Colon. No way our bench is as deep. Our chance is now! OMG IF WE DON'T WIN TONIGHT WE ARE NEVER GOING TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN.

Depraved indifference being the key. I have no doubt that Chase Utley didn't go into that slide thinking "Break his leg". I think he went into that slide thinking "Take him out", with a depraved indifference over whether he broke his leg or not. Idiots who drive 100 MPH drunk out of their minds don't do it with an intent to kill people. They do it with a depraved indifference of the lives of others.

Overture, curtains, lights, This is it, the night of nights No more rehearsing and nursing a part We know every part by heart Overture, curtains, lights This is it, you'll hit the heights And oh what heights we'll hit On with the show this is it