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That's weird. You spelled "Red Sox" wrong in the thread title.

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Fellow Mets fan. Born in upstate N.Y. 1968. Grew up in Denver and been in Phoenix since 1999. Still die hard Mets fan. Only team I still follow from New York.

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Exactly, it's also great for napping to.  

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1 minute ago, Groucho Valentine said:

That they'd be higher in the standings than Phailies fans. 

I'm not the delusional one who made outrageous predictions about my team. Reality bites.

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2 minutes ago, phan52 said:

I'm not the enlightened one who made such brilliant predictions about my team. Reality bites when you're a Phillies fan. I have no hope for the future. 

Dont worry old buddy. It cant be like that forever. 

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Mets lost to the lowly Pirates today. Got shut out and no-hit for 6+ innings by a guy making his second MLB start.

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1 hour ago, Groucho Valentine said:

The Mets got other things to worry about right now than winning games. 

LOL

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2 hours ago, Groucho Valentine said:

The Mets got other things to worry about right now than winning games. 

Hard to win games when no one on the team can hit.  Wright is likely out for the season, Confortto is likely getting demoted and Duda is a question mark so there's no one to protect Cespedes.  Nationals are 6 games ahead and unless the Mets make some big moves there's no way with this lineup they will catch them.  

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17 hours ago, newtogolf said:

Hard to win games when no one on the team can hit.  Wright is likely out for the season, Confortto is likely getting demoted and Duda is a question mark so there's no one to protect Cespedes.  Nationals are 6 games ahead and unless the Mets make some big moves there's no way with this lineup they will catch them.  

Conforto isn't going anywhere. He's a young player that is slumping. There is a chance Wright will never play baseball again. Getting Duda back will be a boost. But without trading pitching i cant see how the mets make a trade that is going to have a huge impact in the lineup similar to Cespedes last season. The bones of a good offense are there. They just need to get on a hot streak. 

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So I basically missed two weeks of the season while I was in Ireland, thankfully got to miss the Nationals' 7-game losing streak.  Still, they have a 4-game lead over the third place Mets after last night's 11-4 drubbing.  Not such a bad place to be.

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43 minutes ago, Groucho Valentine said:

Mets are tooling up now for their championship surge.  It's a mistake to write off these beasts. 

I don't think anyone's writing them off...

Then again, with half of their lineup and starting rotation either on the DL or in AAA, maybe they should be. 

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On 6/3/2016 at 9:52 AM, Groucho Valentine said:

. Once the mets figure out how to hit a baseball again we're well on our way to 110 wins. 

Based on the recent series, the Mets are still working on that hitting stuff, apparently unsuccessfully.  And now they only have to win 70 of their remaining 85 to get to 110 wins.  

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8 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

Based on the recent series, the Mets are still working on that hitting stuff, apparently unsuccessfully.  And now they only have to win 70 of their remaining 85 to get to 110 wins.  

You're forgetting who you're talking about. This is the team of Strawberry, Dykstra, and Bonillia. Nothing is impossible. 

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6 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

Based on the recent series, the Mets are still working on that hitting stuff, apparently unsuccessfully.  And now they only have to win 70 of their remaining 85 to get to 110 wins.  

Only the Cubs are projected to get over 100 wins going forward. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings

The Mets are projected to end up around 87 wins. They'll be in the wild card hunt if they go as projected. 

A cool graph showing how the teams probability of winning the WS has changed since the start of the season. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/coolgraphs.aspx?lg=A&div=A&stat=poff&year=2016

 

 

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3 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

Only the Cubs are projected to get over 100 wins going forward. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings

The Mets are projected to end up around 87 wins. They'll be in the wild card hunt if they go as projected. 

A cool graph showing how the teams probability of winning the WS has changed since the start of the season. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/coolgraphs.aspx?lg=A&div=A&stat=poff&year=2016

 

 

Looks like the Mets have a 100% chance of winning the world series, based on that graph. 

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2 minutes ago, Groucho Valentine said:

You're forgetting who you're talking about. This is the team of Strawberry, Dykstra, and Bonillia. Nothing is impossible. 

Maybe I missed something, but I'm pretty sure those three are off playing golf somewhere, not baseball.  This is the team that traded most of its prospects off last year, so there's little chance of a significant trade, and that has two of its better starting pitchers with bone spurs, so they may not last the entire season.  

3 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

A cool graph showing how the teams probability of winning the WS has changed since the start of the season. 

http://www.fangraphs.com/coolgraphs.aspx?lg=A&div=A&stat=poff&year=2016

That also has charts showing the probability of making the playoffs.  They're estimating the Mets are just barely better than even money right now.

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1 minute ago, DaveP043 said:

That also has charts showing the probability of making the playoffs.  They're estimating the Mets are just barely better than even money right now.

You are correct :whistle:

Here's the one for winning the world series.

http://www.fangraphs.com/coolgraphs.aspx?lg=A&div=A&stat=ws&year=2016

6 minutes ago, Groucho Valentine said:

Looks like the Mets have a 100% chance of winning the world series, based on that graph. 

If by 100% you mean, 51% chance of making the playoffs and only 3.5% chance of winning the world series then sure ;) 

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