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Now bottom 5. 12 outs from 4.5 lead.

2-1 giants. Bottom 4.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Rational Exuberance! You beat me to it!

MFS62 wrote: Farmer Ted wrote: Jeez, can we get some real fucking offense? Nine LOB through eight. I'm dying here. Yeah. I know. C'mon Travis. Get with the program! Later All kidding aside I don't get that weird shit he's doing with his bat where he points the barrel at the pitcher during his setup. I think it makes his swing longer and is causing him to struggle. I don't remember him doing that before he got hurt.

People talk about appreciating the beauty of a 1-0 game. I don't think enough appreciation is given to 12-3 blowouts where you abuse your opponents' bullpen.

This game is fun.

Curtis Granderson has raised his OPS by more than 100 points since the start of this thread.

Anyone watching? Noah is not sharp? I see he gave up another 2 hits in the 2nd.

Now 3.5 games up! Second straight night of Quadruple Happiness! 1/2 a game away from Rational Exuberance!

1-0 Dodgers. End of 6.

Great work BG. Noah joins Met greats Alay Soler and Tim Redding as one-time winners.

Quadruple Happiness last night.

5-0 Dodgers.

d'Kong76 wrote: I mostly agree too. But, when he says the forum doesn't get it all he's doing is looking to poke some of us with a stick. Fuck it, won't be the first time he's made me take some time off. Let's go Mets. New rule. No more stick poking. I'm looking at you fman.

CF and Ceetar Financial Discussions (Cliff's Notes Version) CF: I want owners who support a large payroll and spend wisely. Ceetar: Yes, but a large payroll doesn't insure success. CF: Agreed. But it increases a team's likelihood of success and sustained excellence. Ceetar: But it doesn't always work. Look at the (insert name of bad team). The money is not helping them. CF: Agreed. I want the owners to support a large payroll and spend it wisely. Not like (bad team). Ceetar: But lots of teams spend poorly! Look at (another team) and (another team)! They also spent poorly. Don't you think (bad team) regrets signing (overpaid player)? Bad bad. CF: Yes. Spending foolishly is bad. I want to spend wisely. Ceetar: We are in first place! CF: Yay! Ceetar: The owners owe you nothing.

Just For Men = NOT WORKING

batmagadanleadoff wrote: There's very little of that here. Please provide examples. Bullshit. What for? Because any time you say that "you and a couple others here" believe something, you should be able to say who. But I'll do it for you. ceetar absolutely believes that $30-$50 million extra in available payroll is pointless. He has fought me about this constantly. Mets Guy in Michigan believes that you. It comes across in his post earlier in this thread: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: But it's not the Titanic if they are in first place in mid-August and ... Other than that, I don't see anyone else falling into this camp. For what it's worth, I think most people here agree with batmagadan. Being in first place is great, but the Wilpons are still terrible. Having a NY team with a bottom third payroll is unacceptable, regardless of your place in the standings. It's great that the Mets are in first. And it's great to have a great rotation all under control for the next several years. But as a large market team, they should also be able to spend a boatload of money on established talent that takes this team from being competitive, to dominant. Asking anything less from your owners is to let them off the hook. The counter-arguments about money poorly spent are distractors and irrelevant. No one here is advocating that the additional money be spent poorly. As far as I know, there is no requirement attaching the extra money to poor decisions. What batmags, and Vic, and many others here want is for the Mets do everything that they have done to maximize their resources, and also have at their disposal, the financial capability of a big market team.

I find I'm so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a contender can feel. A contender at a start of a stretch run whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope our young pitching can hold up down the stretch. I hope we hit enough and catch the ball. I hope the post-season is as glorious as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

1.5 games away from rational exuberance.

Woohoo!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This was me on July 17: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I hope to return to the United States with the Mets securely in first place. And it happened! They may only have a day or two of first-place security, but it is what it is! When I typed that I really had no expectation that the Mets would be in first place upon my return. Anyway, Schaefer tallying will resume in the next couple of days. I'll post an official announcement before closing any games, but basically, if you have any catching up to do, please do it soon. Ben, did you keep up with the games while you were away?

Edgy MD wrote: Shit. Reports that Parnell just went down. Puffer fish. Need more info. Was he attacked by one or did he eat one?

Yoenis Cespedes: Hit By Bus. Bus totaled. Cespedes day-to-day.

WE SHOULD HAVE LOCKED THIS THREAD.

Harvey 4 Uribe 2 Cespedes 1 Duda 1 Conforto .5 Murphy .5 Granderson .5 Familia .5