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Edgy's got some real good HR's going on here, but he's now into the 20s and 30s. But keep 'em coming because they are so juicy. These are the deep tracks of great Mets HR's.

=Centerfield post_id=174040 time=1728081421 user_id=65] Omg. The Dykstra HR. Can't believe I forgot that.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=174044 time=1728087364 user_id=68] Im just guessing here, obviously, but I think that the Mets have been keeping Senga's progress under wraps, maybe even to the point of being misleading and that they think he's now healthy enough to give them five or six innings. It's a short series and the loser goes home so the value of each individual game is that much more magnified. Given this, I doubt that the Mets would open with a bullpen game. Not now.

Im just guessing here, obviously, but I think that the Mets have been keeping Senga's progress under wraps, maybe even to the point of being misleading and that they think he's now healthy enough to give them five or six innings. It's a short series and the loser goes home so the value of each individual game is that much more magnified. Given this, I doubt that the Mets would open with a bullpen game. Not now.

The Mets beat Nola and Wheeler 12 of the last 15 times they faced those pitchers. For whatever thats worth.

=ashie62 post_id=174022 time=1728073093 user_id=90] I only thought of Baty for experience sake I'm fine with Luisangel

=ashie62 post_id=174013 time=1728071569 user_id=90] Any chance Baty gets a roster spot over Acuna this round?

Great. Break a leg, Senga. I mean, good luck.

Francisco Lindor's game winning blast from a few days ago to clinch a playoff spot.

Lenny Dykstra's "Strat-o-Matic" walk-off againt the Astros in the playoffs. How about Tim Harkness's walk-off grand slam at the Polo Grounds?

So what are some of the biggest HR's in Mets history, besides the one Alonso hit last night? The first two that immediately came to my mind both involved Todd Pratt: his walk-off HR over the outstretched arms of Steve Finley against the DBacks in the playoffs and Robin Ventura's Grand-Slam single. And of those two, the second one was, technically, not a HR.

=Centerfield post_id=173605 time=1727977771 user_id=65] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=173600 time=1727969793 user_id=68] Stanek and Garrett pitched clean innings. Its funny how this works. Nobody ever complains about Mendoza when a reliever pitches a scoreless inning. When should Manaea have been removed? Only after he loads the bases with no outs? Only after he's given up five runs in one inning? Manaea was used yesterday pretty much the same way he's been used all season long.

Stanek and Garrett pitched clean innings. Its funny how this works. Nobody ever complains about Mendoza when a reliever pitches a scoreless inning. When should Manaea have been removed? Only after he loads the bases with no outs? Only after he's given up five runs in one inning? Manaea was used yesterday pretty much the same way he's been used all season long.

Edgy MD wrote: Good pen or bad pen, I always recommend trying to get one more out from the guy that's already getting the job done. Always? Because, me, if I thought that the guy was about to give up a home run in a tied game, I'd pull him.

The older I get, the more nonsensical I think all of this is -- no matter what the format. That's because I'm beginning to think, more and more and more, that this whole notion of who's a better team, or who's the best team is almost always an unsolvable, unknowable and elusive riddle. The playoffs are fun and they provide a sense of closure to the season and bragging rights in perpetuity for the ultimate winners. So go and enjoy them. But the idea that we should be able to extract deep and profound and irrefutable meanings written in stone from these handful of games about who these teams are and which team deserved to win the tournament is sounding to me, more and more ridiculous with each passing year. It's all a dressed up coin flip, no matter how it's presented.

Over 12 games, you'd see the cream rise to the top. [FIMG=400]https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1474792759/vector/raised-eyebrow-emoji-skeptical-emoticon.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=sLsy3FFTkKLQGG8LXx0w5FTQ8b5P5dVhIUKRuJvj9KE=[/FIMG]

Now pivot to the pivot thread. https://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32954https://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32954

The Athletic ranks all 36 possible 2024 WS matchups. Here's a few: 36. Tigers/Braves Emcee: Darrell Evans This would be a 6-versus-5 matchup, and while there's always some fun in bracket busting, with the Atlanta Braves so depleted and the Detroit Tigers just emerging from a long postseason slumber, it's hard to generate a lot of buzz for this one. 17. Orioles/Mets Emcee: Armando Benitez Previous meeting: 1969 World Series (Mets, 4 games to 1) It's been a heart-wrenching year for the Mets, who have lost Jerry Grote, Buddy Harrelson, Ed Kranepool and Jim McAndrew from the miracle team that beat Baltimore in the 1969 World Series. What a scene it would be, cosmically, if the Mets ended up facing the Orioles again now. The Mets took two of three in August, ending both victories with home runs. Neither team has ever hit a walk-off homer in the World Series — and c'mon, Eutaw Street in Baltimore was made for that very purpose. 15. Astros/Mets Emcee: Nolan Ryan Previous meeting: 1986 NLCS (Mets, 4 games to 2) The Astros lost two absolutely bonkers playoff series in their NL days in the '80s: one in 1980 to the Phillies, and the other to the Mets six years later. They avenged the first loss in 2022, and this would be their chance at the other. Incidentally, you could build quite a rotation with alumni of both teams: Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Dwight Gooden, Sid Fernandez, Mike Hampton and Justin Verlander, who would have to make an impact on a Mets/Astros World Series, wouldn't they? Anyway, lots of star power here, and a great chance for Houston to troll New York by having Hakeem Olajuwon throw out a ceremonial first pitch before Game 7. 7. Guardians/Mets Emcee: Julio Franco These teams lost the World Series in consecutive years in the 2010s, and both are long overdue to win it all. But this matchup, of course, would be framed around Francisco Lindor, whose transcendence has fully translated from Cleveland to New York since his trade in Jan. 2021. Andrés Giménez, who went the other way, has won two Gold Gloves at second base since the deal, and he's under Cleveland control through 2030 at less than half the annual price. A sensible deal for both sides, it seems, with a World Series settling the score for good. 6. Yankees/Mets Emcee: Darryl Strawberry Previous meeting: 2000 World Series (Yankees, 4 games to 1) Gotta admit: ever since Mike Piazza flied out to Bernie Williams to end Game 5 in 2000, I've been waiting for more Yankees/Mets World Series games. Their one matchup was spellbinding theater, each game a classic; it just ended too soon. This would be another chance for a seven-game thriller, and if much of America would reflexively groan at an all-New York rematch — well, too bad. Baseball still reigns as New York's No. 1 sport, and a World Series clash once every couple dozen years isn't asking too much. 2. Yankees/Padres Emcee: Dave Winfield Previous meeting: 1998 World Series (Yankees, 4 games to 0) It's not nostalgia for 1998, and it's not the Juan Soto takes-on-his-old-team angle. It's not even brown-and-gold versus the hallowed pinstripes (OK, maybe a little). The appeal of this series is simply the promise of exquisite baseball, with superstars in both lineups and rotations. The Padres' hitters had the fewest strikeouts and the most hits in baseball. The Yankees' hitters had the most homers and walks. Extremes are fun. This series would be, too. 1. Yankees/Dodgers Emcee: Willie Randolph In the 41 World Series from 1941 to 1981, the Yankees and Dodgers met 11 times. In the 41 World Series since, they haven't met at all. Nobody under 50 has more than a hazy memory of these Tiffany brands sharing the field in October. But, oh, the history — Mickey Owen, Bill Bevens, Cookie Lavagetto, Billy Martin, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Amoros, Johnny Podres, Don Larsen, Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson, Brian Doyle, the tri-MVPs … if you know, you know, and if you don't, you'll be flooded with nostalgia for the golden days of this rivalry. You can say that you wouldn't want a revival, that you'd rather see low-budget underdogs humble these swaggering spenders. But admit it: you'd watch. You'd love to see what Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge would do in their first World Series. The best players, the top seeds, Hollywood vs. Broadway. From the South Bay to the Valley, from the West Side to the East Side, these little town blues are melting away. You know you want to be part of it. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5808243/2024/10/01/world-series-matchups-mlb-ranking/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5808243/2024/10/01/world-series-matchups-mlb-ranking/

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I don't want Mike Puma saying he told us so because .... Gimme a break with the I told you so, Mr. Puma. Nobody fucking knows shit.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =Centerfield post_id=173053 time=1727792239 user_id=65] Milwaukee is a division champion. Finished 4 games ahead of the Mets. Beat them 5 of 6 times this season. Has a much, much better bullpen. Three of those five losses to the Brewers were in March, when the Mets had a significantly different active roster.

Since the Mets straightened themselves out, they've played at a 101 win clip. They're a top team and practically the entire starting lineup can blast the ball over the fence on any given at bat.There are no Bud Harrelson's here, who can go all season long without even reaching the warning track.

Linked in death, too. Rose and Harrelson passed away in the same calendar year. [FIMG=444]https://d2skn5554g4boz.cloudfront.net/content/images/larger/3243/3243673.jpg[/FIMG]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Are the Diamondbacks the first team to miss the postseason because of a tiebreaker? Bobby Thomson's "The Giants win the pennant" HR to eliminate Brooklyn was in a tiebreaker. (The Shot Heard 'Round the World). That's not what I meant. The Giants officially finished the season with a better record than the Dodgers that year Oh. You meant the current tiebreakers, that aren't games any more, but formulas, right?

I don't give a flying fuck. First of all, I truly believe with all of my heart, that the Mets might be the best team in baseball right now. Though what worries me, especially in a very short series, is the Mets lack of an overpowering strikeout pitcher. Second of all, this all a crapshoot -- a short series between two good teams. It's become so cliche to say that -- 'crapshoot" -- that those words in this context tend to gloss over people. But it's a crapshoot. I'm certain that if you got the 100 foremost baseball experts to predict the winners of each of the post-season series the rest of the way out, they'd do no better at picking the winners than us here on this forum. And us here on this forum would do no better at picking the winners than a bunch of four-year-old girls who don't know a goddamn thing about baseball. And those four-year-old girls would do no better than a bunch of chimpanzees flipping coins, heads for the higher seed and tails for the lower seed.

=Batty31 post_id=172975 time=1727742270 user_id=109] Holy shit where I have I been living. I never heard about the pedophile scandal! I just knew about the cheating scandal.