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Frayed Knot wrote: Fans should never take deep playoff runs for granted. Davey Johnson's Mets: The Dynasty that Never Was.

Lefty Specialist wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=176004 time=1729030252 user_id=68] I'm certain that the motherfuckers who voted for the first option aren't choosing the Mets over Kamala. For them, the choice is even easier. They'd prefer that Hitler wins next month. Russian trolls. What are Rusckies doing in a baseball forum, anyhow? Actually, I think at least one of the folks who picked the first option may actually be real CPF-ers. I don't know who for sure, but that would be their story to tell.

=MFS62 post_id=176909 time=1729374330 user_id=60] Blowouts? How about three? In games 2,3 and 6 of the 1960 World Series, the MFYs outscored the Pirates by a combined score of 38-3. 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0. The Pirates won the series in 7 games. Jayson Stark writes for a NY paper. He (or his editor) should have known that. And if he did, maybe he wouldn't have insulted us with that article. He must get paid by the word. If he wanted to write about blowouts, he might at least have mentioned that year.

The Blowout Series: Mets-Dodgers is bonkers baseball, an NLCS filled with runaway wins Excerpt: NEW YORK — Welcome to one of the strangest postseason series ever played. Can we just call it The Blowout Series? Every day, you think this National League Championship Series is due for a breathtaking October classic. Then you look up at the scoreboard, and it's 10-2 in the fourth inning. We're five games into this thing now, and the Dodgers and Mets are both flying across the country to play another game Sunday. So at least this NLCS has that going for it. It's never felt close, but — at Dodgers 3 wins, Mets 2 wins — it can't possibly be closer. Just check out the scores of these five games so far. The expression, nail-biter, is guaranteed not to cross your mind. Game 1 (Sunday): Dodgers 9, Mets 0 Game 2 (Monday): Mets 7, Dodgers 3 Game 3 (Wednesday): Dodgers 8, Mets 0 Game 4 (Thursday): Dodgers 10, Mets 2 Game 5 (Friday): Mets 12, Dodgers 6 If you look at those scores and ask — Is this as bonkers as I think it is? — you're not alone. Does it make you feel better to know that even the men playing in this series aren't sure what the heck is happening. “Well, it's different,” said the Mets' Brandon Nimmo. “It makes no sense,” said his ever-philosophical teammate, reliever Ryne Stanek. “But it's the playoffs. You almost expect things to go sideways.” “You know,” said his bullpen buddy, Phil Maton, “baseball is just gonna baseball.” Oh, is it ever. At least it's one of those times in life when you should be grateful that there's a column known as the October Weird and Wild column. We exist to tell you just how off the rails this series is. We also exist to tell you that games like Friday's — when the winning team (the Mets) somehow struck out zero times in 44 plate appearances — are so hard to comprehend that afterward, Francisco Lindor made me show him the box score on my phone before he could be convinced that had really happened. More on those Mets Zero Heroes shortly. But first, let's help you make sense of … The land of the blowouts Five games. Five blowouts. C'mon, man. How even? “It's not exactly how I saw this going,” Nimmo said — and with good reason. How rare are series like this? I asked our friends from STATS Perform to help me dig into that question. No matter how we framed it, the answer was always: Incredibly rare. Five straight games decided by four runs or more? Those of us covering this series spent much of the day asking each other: Do you ever remember a series like this? We couldn't — and for good reason. There have only been three other series in postseason history in which five games had a margin of four runs or more: 1965 World Series — Dodgers vs. Twins (6) 2010 ALCS — Yankees vs. Rangers (5) 2021 ALCS — Red Sox vs. Astros (5) (Source: STATS Perform) Read it all at: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5854708/2024/10/19/nlcs-blowouts-score-mets-dodgers/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5854708/2024/10/19/nlcs-blowouts-score-mets-dodgers/

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: How about after that strikeout? 94.5% Sweet! Three points from a bases-loaded strikeout! Wait! You mean Garrett's strikeout? It went from 93.8% to 97.0%.

Edgy MD wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=176756 time=1729293680 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=176743 time=1729293147 user_id=68] With Pages' three-run homer, the Mets' win probability went from 99.0% to 95.6%. 91.5% after Betts' HR. 10-6 Mets.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=176743 time=1729293147 user_id=68] With Pages' three-run homer, the Mets' win probability went from 99.0% to 95.6%.

Edgy MD wrote: Appreciate the backup while I'm off toileting. Gross.

With Pages' three-run homer, the Mets' win probability went from 99.0% to 95.6%.

Edgy MD wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Smoltz = narrative. Everybody drink. Sorry, missed it. [FIMG=100]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLOAe_VkonW1ldFTrT72pJS6Zd83eCF94BB7IAw4rBBpUP2OrfHRFa2xo7XVjqv8yGxJA&usqp=CAU[/FIMG] He said "narrative " twice in back to back sentences.

Can't. believe this game's not even halfway over yet.

Edgy MD wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=176692 time=1729291200 user_id=68] Biggest strikeout of Garrett's Mets career. Hard to imagine that he's had a bigger one elsewhere.

Biggest strikeout of Garrett's Mets career.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=176688 time=1729291054 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=176686 time=1729291010 user_id=68] if it was a right batter, I'd bring in Diaz.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=176686 time=1729291010 user_id=68] if it was a right batter, I'd bring in Diaz.

if it was a right batter, I'd bring in Diaz.

Edgy MD wrote: =ashie62 post_id=176670 time=1729290541 user_id=90] David Peterson is spent He's OK. Though he might need a mental reset after the homer.

It's not enough that Ohtani's the best player in the game and it's not even close. He's also gotten like a zillion lucky hits this series.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: More, more, more, I want more....... Saturday is a planned bullpen game for LA - meaning they will leave ol Jack out there to twist. I'm hoping for a 15-1 lead The play by play guy keeps saying Saturday but it's Sunday. What time does Sunday's game start?

=Centerfield post_id=176589 time=1729286746 user_id=65] Did THAT one look out off the bat?

I forgot Nimmo was moved up to the two-hole and was wondering how the first out was made. (It wasn't).

And Peterson gets out of the jam. Now its the Dodgers that can't cash in gift wrapped runs.

Disaster already before I'm barely settled in. They induce Ohtani to hit a grounder that doesn't even bounce -- it skids ,-- and it goes through for a single.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Peterson in Game Five, Manaea in Game Six*, and Severino in Game Seven*. * If necessary. That's about right, unless the Mets know something very positive about Senga that isn't obvious to us regular fans.

Lefty Specialist wrote: It's no shame to lose to the Dodgers. I wouldn't feel any shame or any disappointment no matter who the Mets lost to. And that includes the White Sox if, hypothetically, the White Sox were allowed to compete in the post-season. It's just a couple of games and baseball is an extremely luck-plagued sport. The playoffs are much fun when you have a strong rooting interest in the games but I don't derive much profound meaning from any of it. After a few games, I've watched practically none of the pre and post-game analysis. None of it To me, it's almost entirely unwatchable, all of it. Just mindless blather. There's some good stuff in there but the signal to noise ratio is microscopically tiny.