Going to the ninth, tied at 1, the Mets without a hit since the first inning. Either we win in dramatic walk off fashion or we lose having just surrendered runs we couldn’t take back. As either the champions or the absolutely heartbroken, we will end with bats in our hands. Fitting.

Through 60 innings of pitching the Mets staff has managed a 3.75 ERA. Think anyone is going to notice that impressive number from such an utterly discounted staff? Maybe we can match the Tigers after all!

To the bottom of the 8th tied at 1! Here come Beltran, Delgado, and Wright! We will take the lead now and win in the top of the next inning.

Headed to the bottom of the 7th, tied at 1. The Mets now have 3 scheduled at bats to the Cardinals 2. The Mets have now seen John Maine and Oliver Perez combine to give up just one run in 11 and 1/3 innings over two days. Unfuckingbelievable. It’s safely in our bullpen’s incredibly reliable [...]

Well, we wanted a season that celebrated 1986 with a duplication of a championship. And now we have the chance to see this team become legitimately legendary the way that team did in the end. Which is with the ability to come back from the apparent dead. It’s the adversity that makes the win classic [...]

All day, just sick. Can’t believe we are up against one (hopefully two) MUST win games. All day, just sick. Can’t believe we are up against one (hopefully two) MUST win games. I’m confident we can win. I’m predicting we will win. We MUST win. We are down, but it’s not because of our starting [...]

Mets in 7.

There is simply no way that the Mets can allow in good conscience that the team with the 13th best record in baseball go to the World Series representing the National League. Only the 1973 Mets can go to the World Series with such a miserable record. The Mets are the only team in the [...]

During the regular season I look at losses like last night as unfortunate but overall good games. Any night where Delgado hits two homeruns, where the Mets tear into the leading Cy Young candidate, where Reyes is getting on base multiple times and the Mets are getting timely hits behind him or he is driving [...]

The Mets win this game and the series is effectively over. No way the Cardinals will come back from a 2-0 deficit, having already lost a Carpenter start. But can the Mets beat Carpenter? With his ~4.70 road ERA instead of his ~1.80 home ERA, I am much happier to face him. And even before [...]

That was tonight’s score for the game. It will be tomorrow night’s score for the series. Beautiful defense for the Mets tonight. Just a joy to watch. Great to see Beltran get his first big hit of the postseason. I knew it was just a matter of time. Really relieved that Glavine got out with [...]

Since the domination of the Tigers over the Yankees in game 3 of the ALDS it’s looked to me like a fait accompli that the Tigers were going to steamroll their way to the World Series. I wasn’t giving the A’s a chance in my mind. And now that the A’s have lost the first [...]

Terrible, terrible news today. Former Blue Jay, sometimes great, often mediocre, and famously controversial pitcher dies when his plane crashes into a building in Manhattan. Many, including his former pitching coach (and present Mets pitching coach), Rick Peterson are saying that “this puts into perspective” the relative importance of baseball in the grand scheme of [...]

Tigers over A’s in 5 Mets over Cardinals in 5 I was totally wrong in 3 of the 4 Division Series predictions but am terribly happy to be right about the one I was essentially right about (Mets win!) and the most important instance of my wrongness! (Yankees lose!)

If we count decades in the sort of technical way that some sticklers want us to, the year 2000 was the last year of the previous century and millenium and, therefore, decade. If we count that way, then we can consider this decade to only consist thusfar of the years 2001-2006. And so far in [...]

I so knew they’d win this game tonight. Never doubted it. After going up 2-0, this was a foregone conclusion they’d take the series and a great likelihood they’d do it in a sweep! So excited. So proud of these Mets, they’re such a great comeback team. LET’S GO METS!!!!

Thanks for making me (and many others) wrong! What a glorious baseball story! Here’s hoping for a Tigers-Mets series with the Mets on top!

We not only advance to the NLCS while the Yankees go home for the first season where the Mets end on a greater achievement than the Yankees in 15 years since the Yankees finished in last in 1991, we not only go to the World Series, we not only WIN the World Series—-but we beat [...]

Had that vibe before the game that this felt like 2002, had the vibe confirmed when the Tigers took a 4-0 lead. And NOW, 7-0, 1 out in the fifth inning with a runner on second and Bonderman retiring all 15 Yankee hitters so far? Yeah, this is looking more than reminiscent of 2002—-it’s actually [...]

Among pundits looking for a chink in the Mets armor and pessimistic Mets fans looking to preempt disappointment with cynicism there is a popular assumption dominant the last few days that the Mets could lose both games in LA because Trachsel and Oliver Perez are pitching. Trachsel is simply not expected to get the job [...]

Picture it, The Bronx, October 2002. The Yankees had just been to 5 of the previous 6 World Series, winning 4 of them and losing the one the year before only due to an improbable 9th inning rally by the Diamondbacks. They were upgraded at firstbase with a shiny new, recently purchased mercenary in Jason [...]

I thought it was a total joke the way the media flipped from writing the Tigers off to declaring them great and mighty and competitive based on just one win in the Bronx on Friday. But wow, then Kenny Rogers made it official that the Tigers deserve some self respect and confidence. But the big [...]

I should have known better. Every year I usually scoff at the notion that the Twins can dominate a 5 game series behind their one dominant pitcher. I usually say, he will just not be enough. And this year, I really should have been looking at that A’s staff and realizing that beyond a game [...]

If ever there was a guage of Joe Torre’s true opinion of you, it’s how he decides to use you in a game where the Yankees can be eliminated. He has a remarkable ability to show no mercy in pulling a pitcher or benching a player, etc. when it is all on the line and [...]

Alright, I have only three minutes, so my first few thoughts—– Delgado—-I told everybody so! I clamored for a year and a half back to the winter of ’04 that he was the most important player for the Mets to acquire. As a long time Blue Jay fan I’m a huge fan of his. Yesterday [...]