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Looks like both squads can do what the braves have been doing for years:
The braves spend a decade beating up on the dregs of the league in the regular season, just to get shown the door in the playoffs.

Buy the regular season with a large payroll, choke in the playoffs.

I have no idea what they mets are going to do with thier pitching staff in shambles next year and beyond.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Obviously you are giving the Mets a zero shot in coming back from a 2-1 deficit? Because, well, if they do it renders this thread bunk.

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  • JerseyJersey Posts: 542
    This thread is pure bunk anyway. The Mets did not choke - their pitching staff got hurt. I'm just hoping for a miracle now. And maybe Heilman will need to start game.
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  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭
    The Mets have a lot of baseball yet to be played. I wouldn't count them out. Frankly, I think they're going to rally back even with a 3-13 pitcher on the mound today image
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭


    << <i>This thread is pure bunk anyway. The Mets did not choke - their pitching staff got hurt. I'm just hoping for a miracle now. And maybe Heilman will need to start game. >>




    The Mets were a pitch or two away from winning game 2. It wasn't their starting pitching staff (or lack of starting pitching, due to injuries) that blew game 2, anyway.

    The way Glavine looked in game one, the Mets with Tom Glavine, can most likely win again. Plus if the Mets can score early, maybe they will hold on to some leads next time? image

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    World Series:

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  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    I will be the first person to congrats the Mets if they win the series, but they look like they're in shambles.

    Choker of a closer, and ZERO starting pitching. what's a 49 year old tom glavine like on 3 days rest in sub-45 degree weather ?
    Id sooner buy a lottery ticket (ok, a pick 3, not a pick 4,5 or 6) than hope they can come back with thier starters.

    the mets offense is just as pathetic as they've been in the latter part of the season.


    Mets fans are whistling past the graveyard now.
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  • DaBigHurtDaBigHurt Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    Heh, I gotta love the posters parroting that idiot Mike Lupica in calling the Yankees of all teams, the Atlanta Braves.

    Maybe you don't see the difference between one championship in a 16 year run and FOUR championships in an 11 year stretch, but I assure you, everyone else does. Even the most hardcore of Yankee haters.
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  • RANDYMOSS84RANDYMOSS84 Posts: 1,980
    pujols is balla
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    I don't think the Mets are done, by any means. The Cardinals are just not a good post-season team, and the Mets will bounce back against them. It would be a done deal already, if the Mets had a healthy Pedro and El Duque out there, but that's why you play the games...
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  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't think the Mets are done, by any means. The Cardinals are just not a good post-season team, and the Mets will bounce back against them. It would be a done deal already, if the Mets had a healthy Pedro and El Duque out there, but that's why you play the games... >>



    Indeed, anything can happen in a post-season series. I mean, did anyone think the Tigers would win seven straight games in the postseason to go to the Series after they blew their division lead?
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  • JerseyJersey Posts: 542
    <<Indeed, anything can happen in a post-season series. I mean, did anyone think the Tigers would win seven straight games in the postseason to go to the Series after they blew their division lead?>>

    I didn't. What an impressive performance!
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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Hyperboy, what's that you said about the Mets whistling past the graveyard...Looks like they're whistling to a VICTORY right now! Of course, what would a Phillie fan know about playoff baseball, anyway? image


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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the mets offense is just as pathetic as they've been in the latter part of the season.

    Hyperion, what was that you said about the Mets offense??

    11-3 and counting. Home field advantage is ours again!


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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I will be the first person to congrats the Mets if they win the series, but they look like they're in shambles.

    Choker of a closer, and ZERO starting pitching. what's a 49 year old tom glavine like on 3 days rest in sub-45 degree weather ?
    Id sooner buy a lottery ticket (ok, a pick 3, not a pick 4,5 or 6) than hope they can come back with thier starters.

    the mets offense is just as pathetic as they've been in the latter part of the season.


    Mets fans are whistling past the graveyard now. >>

    Maybe you should tune in tonite and check the score.
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  • 80sJunkie80sJunkie Posts: 1,314
    Mets 12 ugly birds 5 looks like it's huntin seasonimage
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Mets 12 ugly birds 5 looks like it's huntin seasonimage >>



    And the real MVP of the mets shows again tonight why that is. Forget beltran, he's a bum compared to Delgado.
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    I stand humbily corrected, the METS offense looked every bit as potent as they did in the heart of the regular season,
    That being said:
    they had to do it against a POS group of pitchers. a rookie with an ugly hat who threw junk ?

    3-8 Rookie pitcher ?

    Im extremely interested to see how Glavine reacts to the cold temps and the short turnaround.
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  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭
    What I tell ya? Even with a 3-13 pitcher, they rally back no problem.


    Now somebody tell me why they're going to waste their aging ace tonight on short rest. Why not let him pitch game 6 at Shea? Is there no one else to start today.
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    And the real MVP of the mets shows again tonight why that is. Forget beltran, he's a bum compared to Delgado.

    Wow, bums kind of a strong word for someone who's hitting .333 with 3 homeruns, 6 rbi's and 6 runs scored in 4 L.C.S games and who will likely finish in the top 5 in MVP voting for the year
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>Is there no one else to start today >>



    Actually, I don't think there is. But, the forecast is for rain tonight, so maybe Glavine gets a break - and pitches on normal rest tommorrow.
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  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭


    << <i>The Mets were a pitch or two away from winning game 2. It wasn't their starting pitching staff (or lack of starting pitching, due to injuries) that blew game 2, anyway.

    The way Glavine looked in game one, the Mets with Tom Glavine, can most likely win again. Plus if the Mets can score early, maybe they will hold on to some leads next time? image

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    World Series:

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    Some stats to think about! image

    Mets Regular Season Record: 97-65
    St. Louis Regular Season Record: 83-78 (just 5 games over .500 baseball for the regular season!)

    St. Louis "On the Road" Record: 34-47


    In my opinion, St Louis must win tonight's game (game 5) at home. It will be tough to win again in NY (on the road).

    My feeling is the Mets will take game 6 and 7 at home, even if St. Louis wins game 5.

    If St. Louis does lose tonite (gm 5),

    The fat lady has sung!

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  • WabittwaxWabittwax Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭
    I think with the way the Tigers are rollin', it isn't gonna matter what happens in the National League.
  • JerseyJersey Posts: 542
    << I think with the way the Tigers are rollin', it isn't gonna matter what happens in the National League. >>

    The Tigers are due to cool off
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  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭


    << <i><< I think with the way the Tigers are rollin', it isn't gonna matter what happens in the National League. >>

    The Tigers are due to cool off >>



    literally, if the metsies catch fire, they can take a well rested (cold) tigers game in the first 2 game, the series could be a joke.
    that being said, tonight is now a must-game for St. Louis !!
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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i><< I think with the way the Tigers are rollin', it isn't gonna matter what happens in the National League. >>

    The Tigers are due to cool off >>



    They've been saying that for months...they had their 'cool off' period at the end of the regular season, then they went and whooped up on the pathetic yankees.

    And the above poster is right - it doesnt matter who the NL sends, they're just cannon fodder for the tigers
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    they had their 'cool off' period at the end of the regular season,


    another misinformed statement.

    actually, the Tigers were something like 19 and 31 over the last 50 games.


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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Really, they didn't lose three in a row to KC to close out the season?

    i think they did, and that would of course be the cooling off period I was talking about. 50 games? That's a third of the season!
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    yes dopey i know, however, three games is hardly a large enough sample size. To say they had a cooling off period at games 160, 61 and 62 when in fact they cooled off well before then IMO makes your statement a misinformed one.


    JMO

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>yes dopey i know, however, three games is hardly a large enough sample size. To say they had a cooling off period at games 160, 61 and 62 when in fact they cooled off well before them IMO makes your statement a misinformed one.


    JMO

    Steve >>



    Dude, do you even read your own posts? Or are you in such a rush to argue with me you make it up as you go along?

    Christ.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Dude you need to learn how to read and comprehend what people say.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Dude you need to learn how to read and comprehend what people say.


    Steve >>



    Dude you need to get back under your bed...you obviously are out of your league here.

  • viking7viking7 Posts: 343
    The Tigers will be ready for the Cardinals or the Mets.
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭
    Mets vs Cards


    With an extra day of rest for both teams (...especially for those 2 starters, Glavine and Weaver!), this game should be very interesting.

    Glavine seems to be in top form, and this extra day of rest is huge for him!

    Weaver pitched well in game 1, but not quite as good as Glavine.

    The Met "run explosion" in game four was impressive. But game three was impressive for the Cards too!


    This should be fun!

    "Let's Go Mets!"

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