SLACKISH REACTION: I stopped watching the game because THE GARY APPLE RON DARLING BOOTH IS UNWATCHABLE AND EVEN YOU ADMIT IT – more on that later today in its own post – and I woke up to my timeline wondering if I could lead with Matt Harvey News or Mickey stuff. Mickey stuff? I wonder what happened.
Oh, I see, Mickey took Matz out and you’re all upset. Look at the headline in the newspaper – MAY HAVE FINISHED THE METS. Everyone who was buying playoff tickets on Sunday morning now thinks the Mets are FINISHED, but I am the negative one.
Folks, especially new readers, this is what I have been saying while I took a pounding on social media for two weeks when the Mets are winning. It’s not that I am “negative” it’s that everyone else is crazy. You’ve gone from WOOOOOO PARTY TIME to WHAT IS MICKEY DOING WE’RE DOOMED!
Look, this probably is just the Math catching up to the Mets. You really aren’t “supposed to” win 15 of 16. Had they won like 13 of 16 you’d be sitting at around three back in the Wild Card and be happy. The Math of it all is why I was saying the pennant race was fake. HOWEVER – they did get the number down to zero, which made it real. From there you control your own fate.
I do feel, and have felt, that this probably all winds up with the Mets finishing like 5 out and us all waking up from last week’s party wondering why we got Stroman and what happened to all the prospects – but hey Wags bought you two extra months of baseball instead of the usual 60 games of playing out the string. Enjoy it for what it is.
And see how “negative” I am when everyone else is jumping ship after three days? When do the boycotts start?
STIRRUPS ON THE MOON! Despite being a lifelong Mets fan, I'd never seen this 1969 NLCS program cover until they SNY showed it for a quick second during tonight's Mets/Braves game. So good! Take that, Astros!! pic.twitter.com/6aEVDAY3qg
— Paul Lukas (@UniWatch) August 15, 2019
